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Vitter republican on environmental public works says environmental groups dont even have to sue to stop, delay or threaten some projects. case in point alaska 2010. they proep potion a mining operation that could generate comblls of dolla -- billions of dollars of economic activity and jobs in the briss tal bay region. enter a local environmental group which complained to the epa. despite the fact that no plan or permit had been submitted for review the epa announced test opposition to the proje...

Been deceptive or falsified? >> he was a willing participant in the illusion. it wasnt as if somebody pooled the wool over his eyes. he had his own agenda adverse to natural gas. >> lass spring the epa quietly rescinded the order on range resources. a wyoming republican insists this goes beyond one regulators agenda. >> thats the way the epa has been behaving over the last two years thats why they gained the reputation for being abusive. he says in his state another epa administrator has twice t...

>> the epa got vast additional authority in 2007 when the supreme court ruled 5-4 the clean air act authorized the agency to regulate greenhouse gases. including carbon dioxide. >> carbon dioxide is necessary for plants. >> long before he was a radio talk show host he started the landmark legal foundation. in that capacity he is regularly tangled with the epa. >> government giving another branch of government enormous poers. >> what do you say to people who say mark its not that bad. >> environm...

Vitter republican on environmental public works says environmental groups dont even have to sue to stop, delay or threaten some projects. case in point alaska 2010. they proep potion a mining operation that could generate comblls of dolla -- billions of dollars of economic activity and jobs in the briss tal bay region. enter a local environmental group which complained to the epa. despite the fact that no plan or permit had been submitted for review the epa announced test opposition to the proje...

Ep,work at the groups. what i would call a sweetheart deal. >> jeff homestead is a former assistant epa administrator. >> if someone brings one of these cases they get to recover any fees you have to pay for their costs of bringing the suit. it is a pretty good muffin maker. >> it gets even worse. >> many of the same groups get grants from the epa. >> i said for years its a bad system but thats the system we have. >> when you are subsidizing these groups to bring lawsuits to attack private prope...

Something new. >> so did the epa. anthropologist peter wood has written extensively on the movement. >> it began to look at a more elusive threat of chemicals that might or might not be carcinogenic. >> americans want protection from threats of all sorts. >> by the 1970s increasingly intrusive epa regulations led to a backlash. >> we will not permit the safety of our people or our environmental heritage to be jep arred died. but we are going to reaffirm the economic prosperity of our people is a...

Ep,work at the groups. what i would call a sweetheart deal. >> jeff homestead is a former assistant epa administrator. >> if someone brings one of these cases they get to recover any fees you have to pay for their costs of bringing the suit. it is a pretty good muffin maker. >> it gets even worse. >> many of the same groups get grants from the epa. >> i said for years its a bad system but thats the system we have. >> when you are subsidizing these groups to bring lawsuits to attack private prope...

Representatives to pass law. thats how democracy is supposed to work. now questions about weather around the epa with the help of core and environment tal groups has ceased power that voters can no longer troll control. 2010 the northwest environmental defense center con viss a court that water off logging roads is industrial pollution requiring an epa clean boughter permit. the timber industry says that will cost hundreds of billions millions of dollars kill thousands of jobs and attract litiga...

Suggested the epa will use its new power to um pose a cap and trade system if congress doesnt act. it could cost the american economy more than half a trillion dollars a year. trillion with a t. according to the national association of manufacturers. the former republican epa chief says something like that needs to be done. >> i think the epa has been led to a position where it has got to act>> many disagree. among other things the epa cleanup operations of 40 years ago costs relatively little a...