It's the merging of the Energy Department with the EPA to form the EEPA -- the Energy and Environment Propaganda Agenda:
"Top Energy, EPA officials share uncommon bond" by Erin Ailworth | Globe Staff April 27, 2014
Fresh off a plane Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy made a quick stop at Dunkin’ Donuts for a taste of home before directing her security detail to the New England Aquarium to meet up with fellow Massachusetts native, US Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz.
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
The pair would spend the day here to mark Earth Day, echoing each other’s opinions, whether professing their love of the Red Sox or discussing federal policies and programs.
I saw that, and it was followed up by a business section photo on the 23rd.
How is all that timber chopped down for ball bats helping the environment (of course, the owner of the Globe owns the baseball team and a broadcast network featuring NASCAR, but....)?
I know, I know, I'm no fun at all.
Energy and environmental policies have always been connected, but the unusual joint tour of the nation’s energy czar and top environmental official shows how entwined these issues have become, driven closer as concerns over climate change grow and US production of oil and natural gas booms. The burning of these fossil fuels produce greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which are blamed for accelerating climate change.
All this time, the record winters, and they still farting the same $hit.
I think I need to file for divor$e from the Boston Globe.
How environmental and energy issues interact in Washington, state houses, and corporate boardrooms will not only affect policies, but also the economy, shaping the future of industries such as automobiles, natural gas and oil, and clean technology. And with both state and federal governments moving toward stricter regulation of greenhouse gases, the EPA and Energy Department will need to work more closely, environmental and energy advocates say.
Christopher Knittel, a professor of energy economics at MIT, said energy and environmental policies were once conducted at more of a distance, as activists and regulators focused on cleaning rivers, hazardous waste sites, and toxic emissions spewed by factories. But now that focus has shifted to climate change.
Meaning we are going to get nothing but pure, agenda-pu$hing propaganda from this government while the truly serious environmental problems remain unresolved and the $ame indu$tries benefit.
This is about a carbon tax and those who will benefit from such; otherwise, auto racing and the war machine would be shut down and these valiant crusaders for the environment would not be fresh of a plane!
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Moniz, an MIT physicist and founding director of the MIT Energy Initiative, and McCarthy, a former state environmental official under four Massachusetts governors, were appointed by President Obama at the same time, in March 2013.
There was a day when I would have spent the time to get links from pasts posts, but you will just have to find them yourself if you want them.
They were charged with carrying out both the president’s climate change initiatives, as well as his “all of the above” energy policy that relies on a variety of sources, including nuclear, oil, coal, and natural gas.
How odd solar and wind was omitted. Just another way to waste taxpayer dollars and enrich well-connected concerns.
Since then, they say, they have built strong personal and working relationships — both of which were on display during their swing through Boston.
Then it was back on the greenhouse-gasing, global-warming plane rides, right?
As they chatted with young environmental advocates, schmoozed with local business leaders, met with reporters, and psyched themselves up to throw the first pitches at Fenway Park, the pair were often side-by-side, finishing each other’s sentences.
Appearing separately on morning television talk shows, their messages were the same. “Earth Day brings us back to a focus on the risks of climate change and what we can do about it,” Moniz told the hosts of MSNBC’s Daily Rundown.
On the set of another MSNBC program, Morning Joe, McCarthy said: “As we’re celebrating the 44th anniversary of Earth Day, we want to keep our eyes on the big prize right now and that big prize is climate change and taking action to do something about it.”
While the agencies share similar goals, Moniz said in an interview with the Globe, they have different tools for achieving them.
It's a propaganda pu$h!
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Moniz and McCarthy met a few years ago at MIT, where they discussed environmental issues, but it has only been in Washington that their connection has become a friendship. They occasionally meet for dinner or drinks, and sometimes visit each other at home....
Hmmmm!
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Cute couple, huh?
Like many marriages, I'm wondering why I continue $leeping with the Boston Globe.
