Environmental Protection Agency

Earlier in the week I attended a hearing on Capitol Hill about the recent problems in the EPA. According to a GAO report, the EPA has been injecting politics into science. What does that mean? Well, it means that instead of passing legislation based on what scientists recommend, they are making policy based on advice from special interest groups.

That's the jest of the story, but please check it out at the Center for American Progress' Progress Report to learn more about what has been going on.

I really hate to think that some of these things are true. I would like to think that people are better than to let special interest groups tell them what I do. I would like to think that people who hold these jobs in government would think about the people of the United States and make decisions based on what is best for the country as a whole.

OUR Country, OUR Responsibility.