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Show Page 6 The Utah Independent November 11, J?76 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand TH Continued from page 1 serious oil spills. three In the wake of the Santa Barbara Senator Henry ecological disaster, Jackson was able to put through his bill to establish a national policy on environmental protection and to create the Council on Environmental Quality. The law seemed innocent enough at first environmental laws are unconstitutional in the sense that nothing in our Constitution gives the federal government authority to engage in activities which they require. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was not created forthrightly by a law of Congress enacted in compliance with constitutionally prescribed legislative process. Instead, President Richard Nixon, by Executive Order, created the EPA on December 2, 1970. In the first two and one-hyears of its existence. Congress appropriated $5.8 billion for the EPA. Creation of the agency was essentially a political appeal to the small ed but militant and environoft-defea- ted alf well-financ- mentalist lobby. WHO FINANCES THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS? The environmental movement appeared on the national scene almost overnight, enthusiastically supported by the Liberal mass media. In his aforementioned book, Gary Allen reveals the following, (which, of course, is not surprising to those who are aware of the CFR conspiracy): of this moveenvironmental spontaneous ment were the numerous Rockefeller foundations, the Rockefeller-controlle- d The major bankrollers Rockefeller-controll- Foundation Ford Foundation, ed and the the Carnegie Rockefeller-Interlock- ed Mellon (Gulf Oil) foundations. Among the most vigorous public advocates were Robert O. Anderson of Atlantic Richfield (and the CFR) and Henry Ford II of the Ford Motor Company (and the CFR). The most effective organization in using law suits to force Zero Economic Growth on the country by blocking construction of refineries, airports, shopping centers, housing and every other form of development is the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club was for many years a respected group honestly promoting conservation and preservation of forests and wildlife, until it was taken over by political radicals. According to Gary Allen: The Sierra Club is the very symbol of the ecology movements fight against the big corporation. Supplying the funds for its allegedly humanitarian crusade is you the Ford Foundation. guessed it! Ford made grants to the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund of $98,000 in 1971 and $143,000 in 1972, and the Rockefellers have also donated to the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund. of such Pointing out the why financial support for the ecology movement, Allen then went on to state: Next to the Ford Foundation, the leading funders of the ecology movement are the various Rockefeller foundations. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Family Fund are all contributing heavily to the environmental revolution from which Standard Oil is profiting so handsomely by driving petroleum prices into orbit . THE POWER OF'THE E.P.A. In a column on Washington-base- d 1, 1973, Paul Scott warned: August Keep your eye on the Environ- - mental Protection Agency. It is fast becoming one of the most powerful agencies In government. EPA's policies and the agencys enforcement of federal bill specifies that a State legislature may designate an area as Class IQ, and therefore eligible for modest impact on the operations of entire Class II or Class I. wide-rangi- anti-polluti- laws While the ng growth, the EPA is empowered to veto this judgment and place the area in either on are beginning to have a huge cities and industries. INDIAN APOLIS servation: It is altogether reasonable to across all other government agencies, affecting their operations and policy- making in ways never anticipated by Congress. The EPA has stomped across the land with a massive array of rules, regulations, directives, strategies, promulgations, lawsuits and initiatives of every kind. Gary Allen, in an article entitled The Target Is the Middle Class in the July-August 1974 issue of AMERICAN OPINION, in discussing the EPA, The ten-ye- ar outlay to be demanded of consumers and taxpayers to clean up the environment in conformity with the new bureaucratic standards billion. is estimated at $287.1 According to a column by Ralph de Toledano which was entered in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of May 22, 1975, the EPA maintains a staff of forty-o- ne who cost us taxpayers lobbyists to almost a million dollars a year sell its boondoggles to Congress in order to increase its appropriations. An editorial in the INDIAN APO LIS NEWS of October 20, 1975, observed: While the EPA already controls the quality of air under the Clean Air Act of 1970, this is not enough bureaucrats. for the power-hungEnvironmentalists are Insisting that amendments be passed which would ban almost all new development, including new housing and farming operations in specific areas. The editorial then went on to say ry that under rules promulgated under the Act, the nation is divided into three categories: Class I, including scenic and aesthetic areas such as national parks and forests, where all new development would be banned. Class II, where limited development is permitted. Class III, where development could be permitted by States to provide jobs and economic security and where air quality standards are met. However, the EPA bureaucrats are seeking more drastic controls which would eliminate Class IQ entirely and further restrict development in Class II. In other words, it is the EPA bureaucrats which will arbitrarily decide what section of the nation will be denied any new develop- ment. Columnist Henry J. Taylor on August 20, 1975, put it this way: The EPA can blackball nearly every type of major city construction and has become the final word on nearly all job-produc- ing, consumer-need- ed development by invoking the abused name of ecology. An editorial in the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS of February 26, 1976, discussed a proposed bill now before Congress. H.R. 10498 is a bill that would give the Environmental Protection Agency greater control over the use of land, greater regulatory powers over business and in- dustry, and most alarming of all the power to veto laws passed by State this aspect, the NEWS made this ob- Commenting on Set up in 1970 as an independent government agency, EPAs lines of authority dealing with the environment are so broad that they cut expect that State legislatures will be forced to fight the EPA tooth and nail in every instance in which an area is labeled Class III. Economic planning by private and local governState by. a chaotic affair would become ments with every decision placed in jeopardy of rejection by the EPA. entities and THE WAR AGAINST THE AUTOMOBILE .When the environmentalists talk about this kind of pollution or that, one is reminded of the remark: The worlds such a dangerous place, its no wonder none of us get out of it alive! There is danger when we step into the bathtub, when we cross a street, when we order a prescription at the drugstore. There is danger in childbirth and in driving a car. In his syndicated column of April 21, 1976, Ralph de Toledano put it this way: we see. today small group of What is that a zealots self-appoin- ted have gotten a near-monop- on the oly media of communications. Working with another small group in the scientific community, they have used both fair means and foul in an attempt to panic the American people intq believing that every breath they draw is an invitation to death. But can the U.S. economy afford the and highly inflationary massive expenditures required to satisfy water and quality, air pollution, noise-contr- ol legislation enacted between waste-treatm- ent 1970 and 1972? The emerging conclusion: we cant. On the basis of data in the 1973 Report of the Council on Environmental Quality, the costs of reaching the air quality standards of the 1970 amendments may approach $135 billion to $140 billion for the period 1972 to 1983. Kevin P. Phillips, in his column of March 28, 1975, stated: Excessive environmental standards may be as inflationary as Middle Eastern oil price hikes; they are already forcing up taxes, and they threaten to divert capital that U.S. Industry badly needs for retooling in order to remain competitive in world markets. Yet Congress has barely begun to weigh these factors. Some Congressmen, however, arfe concerned. According to Congressman Bob Casey: The theory of EPA has been to try to stop the use of automobiles in the pretense that because the vehicles exhaust fumes contribute to pollution, elimination of cars would end pollution. Publisher William Loeb in an editorial in the August 27, 1975, issue of the MANCHESTER (N.H.) UNION LEADER referred to the political war now being carried out against the automobile in the name of mass transit. Columnist Patrick Buchanan in the same issue of that papbr pointed out that the whole mass transit push, which is currently one of the main objectives of the Liberals, is really an attack on the right of the average citizen to drive a car and to be independent of subway trains and buses. Loeb also had this to say in his front-pa- ge editorial: It is an attempt by the snobs |