{"id":3241,"date":"2015-12-15T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2015-12-15T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:25:28","slug":"the-epas-illegal-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-epas-illegal-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"The EPA’s Illegal Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>The Environmental Protection Agency misused tax dollars in the service of public propaganda, according to a legal opinion<\/a> just handed down by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The misdeeds came during the agency’s public-relations blitz to drum up support for its new Waters of the United States<\/a> (WOTUS) regulation.<\/p>\n

First proposed in April 2014<\/a>, the rule provoked immediate backlash. It expands the reach of the Clean Water Act’s restrictions and the EPA’s domain of authority, a source of concern for dairy farmers, home–<\/ins>builders, timber companies, energy producers and dozens of organizations and companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To date, the White House and EPA both have been dismissive of the concerns. Brian Deese, an adviser to the president, sneered<\/a>: “The only people with reason to oppose the rule are polluters who threaten our clean water.” But 30 states<\/a> also have expressed concerns, giving the lie to the administration’s claim that this is a good green versus bad business dispute…. (Read more at the Weekly Standard<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Environmental Protection Agency misused tax dollars in the service of public propaganda, according to a legal opinion just handed down by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The misdeeds came during the agency’s public-relations blitz to drum up support for its new Waters of the United States (WOTUS) regulation. First proposed in April 2014, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-communications-and-or-propaganda","tag-the-weekly-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}