Ridiculousness from the EPA

[Dr.Who]

Post your ridiculous stories about the EPA here.

#1.

http://www.texasgopvote.com/stop-bi...s-obamas-epa-paying-fix-mexican-trucks-002740

The EPA forces U.S. trucking companies to fix their trucks and bring them up to environmental standards.

But the EPA uses U.S. tax dollars to fix Mexican trucks so that when they come into the country they are not polluting.

 

[Dr.Who]

#2

EPA regulation mandated that 30 percent of the organic matter be removed from the inflow into sewage treatment plants, probably a defensible regulation in most cases. But not in Anchorage, Alaska, which is blessed with some of the purest water in the world because it comes from nearby glaciers. Anchorage officials asked the EPA for a waiver, since its untreated inflow was cleaner than the treated outflow in most jurisdictions, and removing 30 percent of almost nothing would require building a new $135 million treatment plant. The EPA refused to grant the waiver. So Anchorage officials had fish guts dumped into the water and then removed most of them—surely exceeding the 30 percent requirement by a wide margin. Anchorage taxpayers saved buckets of money and EPA mandates were satisfied, but the water was dirtier than before.

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/economic-notions-the-high-cost-of-command-and-control/