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House Republicans step up pressure on EPA over controversial Alaska mine assessment
House Republicans have stepped up their pressure against the EPA over the agency’s perceived attempt to preemptively stop mining operations from occurring in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
On Thursday, Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun sent a letter to EPA chief administrator Lisa Jackson, questioning the EPA’s watershed assessment of a hypothetical mine in Bristol Bay and an accompanying peer-reviewed report.
Broun expressed concerns about the EPA attempting to create another avenue to block mining operations.
“It doesn’t make sense,” reads the letter by Broun. “During these trying fiscal times, the EPA is spending an undisclosed sum of money on a report that is needlessly based on a hypothetical mine scenario. Regardless of how EPA responds to the issues raised by the peer reviewers in their report, unless EPA waits for an actual, real-world mine application for the Bristol Bay area, all future assessments will suffer from the same fundamental flaw.”
“Unfortunately, it appears as though EPA is happy to continue spending scarce resources on an assessment of questionable value, all in order to create additional, unnecessary, and duplicative regulatory burdens,” Broun concluded.
Unneutral
December 1st, 2012
The Employment Prevention Agency should be sent to the UN building which in turn should be ground zero for some nuclear bomb testing.
venturaguy
December 1st, 2012
R’s have the house – every dollar of military spending cuts should be matched with a dollar each from EPA, DOE and EDU – proably won’t stop BS like this but it will slow it down
serfer62
December 1st, 2012
Boehner boldly steps for to not only stop the mining for the epa but demands the military cuts too in 5…4..3..
bummer sez
December 1st, 2012
IT’S MINE!
Tim
December 1st, 2012
Which state will be the first to man up and refuse access to the fed alphabet satraps?