The EPA is Funding the Green Agenda

The Environmental Protection Agency is quite deft at using taxpayer monies to propagate its agenda.  Investor Business Daily has reported that this federal agency has been funding environmental groups with government grants, and in turn they sue the EPA to enforce their green agenda:

Indeed, several environmental groups that have received millions in EPA grants regularly file suit against that same agency. A dozen green groups were responsible for more than 3,000 suits against the EPA and other government agencies over the past decade, according to a study by the Wyoming-based Budd-Falen Law Offices.

The EPA even tacitly encourages such suits, going so far as to pay for and promote a "Citizen's Guide" that, among other things, explains how to sue the agency under "citizen suit" provisions in environmental laws. The guide's author — the Environmental Law Institute — has received $9.9 million in EPA grants over the past decade.

And, to top it off, critics say the EPA often ends up paying the groups' legal fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act.

Wow, that is devious.  Not only is the EPA funding the green agenda in the United States, they are also funding the world at U.S. taxpayer expense.  The Daily Caller reports the following:

Congressional investigators with the House Energy and Commerce Committee found that the EPA engaged in practices such as giving a $718,000 grant to the China State Environment Protection Administration to help it comply with the Stockholm and Long Range Transport of Air Pollutants Convention among others.

The EPA also gave a $150,000 grant to Interpol, the international police organization made famous in countless old movies, in “support of a climate-change project which will ensure that markets operate properly, and that fraud is detected promptly with regard to carbon trading.”

But a 5-year, $1.5 million project known as “Breath Easy Jakarta”, which intends to help implement the city of Jakarta, Indonesia implement air-pollution prevention has raised the ire of House Republicans led by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton.

This rogue agency has been running roughshod over the American people.  If there was ever an argument to abolish a federal agency this is it.

Source:

 http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/07/epa-stimulating-environmental-regulations-abroad/#ixzz1RqkYnZyt

 http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/577430/201107061817/EPA-Funds-Greens-That-Sue-It.aspx?src=HPLNews