EPA Fucks us again

Ninety Percent of EPA Stimulus Funding for Diesel Reduction Program Misspent

http://freebeacon.com/issues/ninety-...gram-misspent/


BY: Elizabeth Harrington
September 17, 2014 2:35 pm

Over 90 percent of funding for a diesel reduction program paid for by the stimulus law was misspent, according to a report by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG).

An audit analyzing $26.3 million in funding to non-profit organizations and state governments meant to reduce truck emissions and create jobs found that the program had “significant financial management issues.”

The OIG reviewed six projects under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) program, finding four “did not meet all the objectives of the award,” or their requirements under the Recovery Act. Five of the six projects “did not have a financial management systems that met federal requirements that applied to the grant award.”

“As a result, we questioned a total of $23.8 million of the $26.3 million claimed under the assistance agreements,” the OIG said.

The OIG said the entirety of a $9 million grant given to Cascade Sierra Solutions was wasted after the non-profit failed to accomplish any of the project’s goals. The grant was intended for upgrading diesel trucks made before 2007 with emission control technologies.

“Recipient did not install verified emission control technologies on pre-2007 model year trucks; therefore, trucks did not meet emission requirements,” the OIG said.

The company closed earlier this year, and was over $19 million in debt to banks and creditors. The company had received more than $60 million in grants from the federal government.

The EPA has only recovered $1.8 million from Cascade Sierra Solutions, according to the OIG report.

In 2010 alone Cascade Sierra Solutions received $28.5 million in grants from the EPA and the Department of Energy for projects that replaced trucks with “clean diesel and hybrid” vehicles and installed electric vehicle chargers at truck stops.

Though more than 5 years have passed since it was signed into law, auditors continue to release reports damaging to the stimulus package. A recent report released by the Department of Agriculture’s inspector general revealed $5 billion in misspent funds and found that most stimulus projects were “inherently not shovel ready.”

The diesel reduction grants financed by the stimulus were also intended to “promote economic recovery and create or retain jobs.”

However, of the projects reviewed by the OIG, two-thirds did not calculate the number of jobs created through the program correctly. Three out of six projects added labor hours that were not funded by the stimulus, and another project had no documentation for any jobs it claimed to create.

In addition, $1.6 million awarded to the Tennessee Department of Transportation was also misspent because the agency did not follow requirements to only use materials made in America.

Defend this, Obamatons.

...who is a crony of Obama. This was known by the Huffington Post in 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronnie..._b_642385.html

Now they can make even more money of the taxpayers with the help of the EPA.

http://www.ecmdi.com/new-epa-ban-on-refrigerants/
http://www2.buildinggreen.com/articl...s-refrigerants
http://www.coolingpost.com/world-new...t-to-industry/

Fuck the EPA! I don't know if they created in new jobs but they sure did add to the cost of new trucks including regular diesel trucks not big trucks.

And the whole clean air act is a joke the only state that's enforcing it is California and if you got a pre 07 motor you can sign a extension form and saying you will promise toget your truck upgraded.

The EPA should be eliminated. Our congress does not have the right to abdicate their authority of law making to a bureaucracy.

The ozone layer is in better shape now than in the past.

Green lobbyists kept the “revolving door” at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spinning despite President Obama’s assurances to the nation that he slammed it shut on his first day in office, according to an interim report released Monday by the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal).

THE OBAMA LIE:

“On my first day in office, we closed the revolving door between lobbying firms and the government so that no one in my administration would make decisions based on the interests of former or future employers,” Obama said in his weekly address on Jan. 23, 2010.

“It is noteworthy that every member of the EPA’s senior leadership who has not made his or her career in the EPA or state level environmental agencies has a history of employment with green pressure groups,” the report noted. Likewise, “outgoing officials frequently find themselves working for these same green pressure groups when they leave the EPA.”

Calling EPA “among the most closed, ideological and politicized organizations in government,” the report found that instead of keeping environmental lobbyists at arms’ length, as Obama had promised, EPA officials fostered a climate of “improper influence and collusion in pursuit of a shared and admittedly ideological agenda.”

“The EPA and various green groups do research for one another, coordinate messages with one another, support one another’s efforts and coordinate their efforts toward a shared goal, as if the EPA and outside green groups were one and the same,” Horner noted in the report.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...r-spinning-epa

Here is the report on the EPA:
http://www.cnsnews.com/sites/default...%20%281%29.pdf

Feeding at the trough of liberal government spending...