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Doing the Kochs' dirty work, I presume.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/walker-puts-epa-the-crosshairs?cid=sm_fb_maddow
Walker puts EPA in the crosshairs
07/28/15 11:05 AMUpdated 07/28/15 11:07 AM
By Steve Benen
Republican hostility for the Environmental Protection Agency isnt exactly new, but it was nevertheless striking to see a leading Republican presidential candidate explain his plans yesterday to effectively eliminate most of the EPAs responsibilities.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) talked to the conservative Washington Examiner yesterday, and began by talking generally about shifting powers from the federal to the state level on everything from Medicaid to transportation, workforce development, environmental protection, education. The Republican presidential hopeful then got more specific:
Other than that, Id leave those requirements and those responsibilities to the state government, where the people making those decisions have to live with them. And I think thats part of the balance.
Asked if hed consider eliminating the environmental agency altogether, the Wisconsin governor added he would essentially take their responsibilities and send them back to the states.
If there was a dispute between states your neighboring state allows toxic chemicals to be dumped in rivers, for example, but those rivers reach your state the EPA in a Walker administration would be able to mediate, if it chooses to.
This probably wont get as much attention as Donald Trump calling Mexican immigrant rapists, but Walkers vision is every bit as radical. As the AP report on this added:
Lisa Heinzerling, a law professor at Georgetown University and former EPA associate administrator, said Walkers approach would instead result in 50 different air quality standards and 50 different states conducting basic scientific research to support environmental protection. If Gov. Walker really does desire meaningful environmental protection in this country, taking power from EPA and giving it to all 50 states is a very silly way to achieve it, she said. His idea is a really inefficient, and almost certainly ineffective, way of protecting the environment.
A Walker campaign spokesperson said the governor would have more details about his plans to overhaul environmental protections in the coming months.
Watch this space.
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)California should build 10 coal plants 10 feet from the border with Arizona to teach the teapublicans there a thing or two about the EPA.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)msongs
(67,436 posts)Skittles
(153,182 posts)these repuke assholes are SOOOOOO predictable
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)He's a Koch whore nothing more.
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)Are Republicans hoping crazy Trump makes the rest of the clown car seem reasonable? Don't fall for it.
BadgerKid
(4,554 posts)And selling off of state parks.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I'd say that the chances of that would be prohibitive. Not even Vegas would give odds on it not happening.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)But one could perfectly well say that about every repuke in the klown bus.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)eliminate the EPA, NEA, NSF, NIH, DOE. and NASA. Everything but the DOD.