EPA Waives Fees for 92% of Liberal Groups, Applies Them to Conservative Groups

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No bias to see here. Just good government in action. The kind of good government that goes after those dangerous Constitutionalists using the revenue service.

Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Conservative Enterprise Institute.

CEI reviewed Freedom of Information Act requests sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several conservative groups, to see how equally the agency applies its fee waiver policy for media and watchdog groups. Government agencies are supposed to waive fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit.

For 92 percent of requests from green groups, the EPA cooperated by waiving fees for the information. Those requests came from the Natural Resources Defense Council, EarthJustice, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, The Waterkeeper Alliance, Greenpeace, Southern Environmental Law Center and the Center for Biological Diversity.

CEI, on the other hand, had its requests denied 93 percent of the time. One request was denied because CEI failed to express its intent to disseminate the information to the general public. The rest were denied because the agency said CEI “failed to demonstrate that the release of the information requested significantly increases the public understanding of government operations or activities.”

And we wouldn’t want the public gaining a conservative understanding of gov ops and activities. Now would we. Liberal institutions consider good government synonymous with liberalism. The transparency defenses they put into place only apply to liberals pursuing liberal causes.

  • onecornpone

    …fees waived… ???

    But we are to be confident that fees mentioned in proposed immigration legislation will be strictly collected? Don't believe it? Just ask Marco Flamenco…

    I'm also sure there will be no political favoritism exercised in fees associated with oCare.

    THIS is your Fed govt ON STEROIDS!

    • http://1389blog.com 1389AD

      No favoritism in Obamacare? Of course not!

  • guest

    The EPA is the enforcement arm of UN Agenda 21 and the following article outlines the way to resist…
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/it

  • gee59

    Just create a new organization with the word Environment and Worker in the title oh and mention Islam and it would no sweat

  • http://www.adinakutnicki.com AdinaK

    The ENTIRE fish stinks from the head up, and no agency will be immune, at least under Obama Inc. As such, many will end up paying fines, be they financial or spending time in jail. This is going to be a huge catch for patriots – http://adinakutnicki.com/2013/05/15/regime-gone-w

    The dam has broken and we just have to persevere, keep up massive pressure and wait it out!

    Adina Kutnicki, Israel http://adinakutnicki.com/about/

  • Don

    I'm speechless. I feel like it's payback time, even though it all happened before I was born. Keep the liberals in power. What a mean way to say thank you to Americans. :-(

  • Omar

    Good article, but don't call our opponents "liberals". There is nothing liberal about them. Real liberals like John Locke and Adam Smith would not support the left's agenda today.