Issa probes EPA’s role in limiting vehicles’ emissions

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Source: The Washington Post

The House Oversight Committee is expanding its probe of the Obama administration’s rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks, according to a letter it sent to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The investigation led by committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) reflects the ongoing battle between House leaders and the administration over the extent to which EPA can address climate change without congressional input.

In the 13-page letter committee sent Friday to EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Issa suggested that by pressing ahead with regulations to curb greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, Jackson “set in motion a series of events which have led inexorably to the expansion of power exercised by EPA. Not only has this expansion occurred without the express consent of Congress, but it also appears that EPA has successfully avoided scrutiny of its actions by the Judicial branch of government as well.”

The White House has brokered two sets of agreements between automakers and state and federal regulators on fuel economy over the past 21 / 2 years that cut greenhouse gas emissions, both of which have come under fire from Issa and some other congressional Republicans as federal overreach.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/issa-probes-epas-role-in-limiting-vehicles-emissions/2011/09/30/gIQATzBjAL_story.html

[Kingofalldems]

1. How dare they do their jobs!

[Plucketeer]

2. ROFLMAO!!!

Someone needs to initiate an investigation into the shit that flows outta ISSA! :puke:

[Blacksheep214]

3. Issa's emissions are toxic!

Asshole, wasting our tax money!

[notadmblnd]

4. Isn't Isssa a convicted car thief?

[roguevalley]

5. he's a confirmed asshat. only a pug would think this worthy of

something like this. he is one of the stupidest members of congress.

[groundloop]

6. He's possibly an arsonist as well....

from Wikipedia:


The Ohio state fire marshal never determined a cause for the blaze. The initial theory was that it was electrical, but the insurance company came to doubt the theory when a fire analysis report it commissioned outlined evidence that the fire could be arson. It had exhibited two distinct areas of origin, both with "suspicious burn patterns" but without any "accidental source of heating power."<3> Investigators believed that a stack of cardboard boxes, which had burned in a manner inconsistent with an accidental fire, may have had a flammable liquid spread on them. The black smoke and blue flames generated by the fire strongly suggested the use of a hydrocarbon-based accelerant, and the report said the same mix of four distinct hydrocarbons had been found in samples of burned material taken from different locations in the ruins.<3> Adkins, still employed by Steal Stopper, told the insurance investigators that prior to the blaze Issa had removed not only the company's Apple II personal computer but all hardware, software and manuals for it, as well as diskettes containing all the company's customer records and financial information. He said that silkscreens used by Steal Stopper in the production of its circuit boards had also been placed in a fireproof box. Insurance investigators determined that a short time before the fire, Issa had more than quadrupled Steal Stopper's fire insurance coverage; they were also concerned that they could not determine the source of his initial investment in the company.<3>

[SoapBox]

7. Issa is as dirty as they come!

This clown should be on trial, for the BS that he has pulled and been
involved in over the years.

He's dirty, skeezy, sleazy, rotten and on and on.