EPA e-mails on anti-pollution rules reveal agency’s frustration with White House

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Source: Washington Post

Sometimes the Obama administration operates like a well-oiled machine when it issues pronouncements on how its proposed regulations will affect the nation.

Other times, it doesn’t.

An Aug. 30, 2011, e-mail exchange among Environmental Protection Agency officials, obtained by the Center for Progressive Reform under the Freedom of Information Act, provides a glimpse into how agency officials thought the White House failed to adequately capture their work on anti-pollution rules opposed by Republicans and industry officials.

In responding to an inquiry from House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) about which regulations proposed by his administration would cost more than $1 billion, President Obama sent a letter that — in EPA officials’ view — not only caught them by surprise but also misstated the cost of one of their rules and failed to highlight the potential benefits of others.

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1. Jackson all but resigned

I'm not sure how anyone can argue that the Clean Air Acts, passed with Republican presidential approval in 1970 and 1990, have been anything but successful. All one has to do is look at the magnitudes of improvement since the 1970 amendments and note that our GDP has generally grown during that time. It's that simple.