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   Max Weintraub Posted 8:59 am
   04 Mar 2008

   Unions for 10,000 EPA staff speak out...And yet just six days ago the EPA Administrator testified before Congress that the denial of the California waiver application did not hurt staff morale.  Was he unaware that the unions representing 10,000 EPA staff were about to disabuse him of that notion?
   
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/ ...

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   Delay And Deny Posted 6:57 pm
   04 Mar 2008

   Get Back To Work
   
   The EPA "union" would do itself a service if it focused on cleaning up the environment for real, and stopped milking Superfund sites for decades.
   I've got a site right outside my window -- I haven't seen it change for 7 years.
   What does the EPA do about the physical earth...or is it another IPCC -- hot air and whining.
   
   

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 8:03 pm
   04 Mar 2008

   Superfund...The EPA "union" would do itself a service if it focused on cleaning up the environment for real, and stopped milking Superfund sites for decades.
   
   I've got a site right outside my window -- I haven't seen it change for 7 years.
   They've been tryin' to do the work...but Johnson keeps on blocking their efforts, that's why they're backing outta the agreement.
   As for the Superfund sites, they generally take a decade or longer to clean, and, unfortunately, they are at the whimsy of federal funds.  It generally takes over a billion dollars to clean an average Superfund site, and unfortunately, many legilators would rather see that money go somewhere else.
   And since Superfund site funding is seperate from the general funding of the EPA, they haveta rely on the federal government to decide what sites will be cleaned and what the timeframe for that will be.
   
   

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   gohuskies Posted 11:51 pm
   04 Mar 2008

   WOWThe EPA has more than 10,000 Employees.  Hmm, how many of them are supervisors.  In the past 7 years the Bush administration has made every effort to auction the environment for neoliberal consumption.  What has the bloated employee base of the EPA been doing up until now?  What makes a person want to work for the EPA?

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 2:53 am
   05 Mar 2008

   Workers and policymakers...What has the bloated employee base of the EPA been doing up until now?  What makes a person want to work for the EPA?
   Most of the people who work for the EPA are scientists and monitors, not policy makers.  They supply the info. and recommendations, and the policy makers and funders decide what tod do with that info.  Unfortunately, when corrupt policymakers/administrators like Johnson are in place, they'll tend to ignore or purposely misinterpret the data.
   And the scientists have apparently gotten so frustrated with that they now are taking actions in protest.

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   Max Weintraub Posted 5:33 am
   05 Mar 2008

   Size of government...The U.S. government has approximately 1.4 million military and two million civilian (i.e., non-military) employees.  The U.S. EPA is teeny compared to the rest of the U.S. government.  

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