Thursday, September 15, 2011

EPA Scams Taxpayers with Justice Grants



The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy have degenerated into conduits that promote the progressive agenda. An agenda that is hostile to liberty and free market principles. And as usual, Liberals fund their nefarious activities with guaranteed loans and grants disguised in benign code words like environmental justice:

Many of these justice grants, however, have been issued through Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, which started in 1994 and has awarded more than $21 million in funding to 1,200 local organizations for environmental justice. In 2010, the Obama administration distributed $1.9 million, more than another year in over a decade.

At the beginning of this year, the EPA awarded another
$7 million to “scientists around the country,” as part of the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) research grants program, to study how pollution affects “poor and underserved communities.” (RELATED: Obama administration marches forward with green agenda despite Solyndra scandal)

“EPA made a public commitment in 2010 to take action to address contributors to disproportionate environmental health impacts,” said Dr. Paul Anastas, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Research and Development in a statement. “This research could pave the way for more interdisciplinary work that is responsive to community concerns and environmental justice.”

In August, the EPA awarded $6.2 million to low-income neighborhoods in national environmental
workforce development and job training grants “to recruit, train, and place unemployed, predominantly low-income residents in polluted areas.”

“We’re looking to the people and community organizations who know these areas best to find the places where green jobs and environmental protection are going to do the most good,” said Jackson in a statement. “Creating good green jobs proves that we don’t have to choose between cleaning up our air and our water or creating jobs in our communities. We’re showing that it’s possible to do both at the same time.”

I wonder what kind of community organizations are being employed to promote this particular brand of justice? Could it be a group like ACORN or one of its bastards? This is nothing but a scam.




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