Environmental justice will only be achieved when we are all equal in the cold and the dark (except for the commissars, who need heat and lights to ensure equality among the rest of us).
Washington Times (12/6/21) Op-Ed: "Fundamentally flawed. That’s the only way to describe the Environmental Protection Agency’s new strategic plan. Administrator Michael S. Regan wants to put the EPA 'at the center' of the Biden Administration’s equity agenda by pushing 'environmental justice' policies likely to cause more harm than good. Instead of purportedly protecting minorities from a disproportionate share of eco-hazards, environmental justice puts unaccountable elites and their bureaucratic minions in the position of regulating the dispossessed to the degree they become wards of the state – further disenfranchising them. The EPA is proposing adding the pursuit of justice and equity as a fourth key agency principle while making environmental justice a 'strategic goal.' This is inherently incompatible with the agency’s three founding principles: following the science, law, and transparency. Tying things like regulation, grantmaking and permitting to the theoretical long-term 'social cost' of emissions and statistical 'disparities' – without authorization or input from Congress – creates a playground for a politicized civil service that’s pushing an agenda...But, in picking winners and losers, the green lobby has pushed the government to side with the people, parties and policies that have not helped minorities in the ways they were advertised...Environmental justice, as it is laid out in the Biden EPA’s strategic plan, weaponizes the bureaucracy. It pits communities and people against each other. It sows discontent and distrust, placing political gains over clean-up goals."
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“[I cannot] think of a nominee more poorly suited to be the comptroller of the currency based solely on [her] public positions, statements and the weight of [her] writings than [Omarova.]”
– Sentator Tim Scott (R-NC)
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