EPA Funds Green Groups and Tells Them How to Sue the Government
Investors.com reports that the EPA has been giving millions of dollars in grants to environmental groups and urging them to sue the agency, including telling them how to go about it. It’s nice to know that my tax dollars aren’t being wasted on frivolous things.
…several environmental groups that have received millions in EPA grants regularly file suit against that same agency. A dozen green groups were responsible for more than 3,000 suits against the EPA and other government agencies over the past decade, Enviaccording to a study by the Wyoming-based Budd-Falen Law Offices.
The EPA even tacitly encourages such suits, going so far as to pay for and promote a “Citizen’s Guide” that, among other things, explains how to sue the agency under “citizen suit” provisions in environmental laws. The guide’s author — the Environmental Law Institute — has received $9.9 million in EPA grants over the past decade.
