To the editor:
As a taxpayer, do you have a problem coming up with $1,500 to pay your share of the savings and loan scandal? Compared with what the EPA has planned, this is a mere pittance.The agency with its head, William K. Reilly, is guilty of an impeachable level of deceit. Policies and actions are not based on supportable facts but on a belief that man is a disease on the Earth whose mission is to destroy all the higher life forms, i.e., microorganisms, insects, snail-darters, owls, etc. The EPA is driving us toward financial ruin.
For example, Reilly has spent well over $500 million on a 10-year study of the damage caused by acid rain, yet he refuses to release the report. Why? Because his EPA underlings could not document the damage he had prophesied.
The list of other EPA mismanagements and misrepresentations is too long for this forum, but examples include: dishonestly reporting the urban ozone trend and making it a national problem when it is almost totally a California problem; pushing for an unnecessary $200 per-year vehicle tribute under the guise of enhanced emission testing; capriciously concocting the latest stratospheric ozone depletion trend when the scientifically derived trends were not bad enough; canceling a program to monitor the ultraviolet radiation hitting the ground when it didn't show that it was increasing; funding only one side of the research on global warming; and destroying the town of Times Beach and wrecking the lives of thousands on an unfounded dioxin scare.
I consider myself an environmentalist, but the nation is not served by incompetence and misrepresentation. In a time of huge budget deficits and when we are recovering from a recession, we don't need to spend tens of billions on maybe-problems. Bush should dump Reilly and make the EPA come clean.
J.R. Garfield
Tremonton