ENVIRONMENT::230,000 reasons to get an EPA story right |Daily Caller
By MB Snow at September 29, 2011 | 8:51 am | Print
The idea that the Environmental Protection Agency might hire as many as 230,000 new bureaucrats to staff a regulatory regime related to greenhouse gases is, without question, a shock to the system.
So it’s almost forgivable for professional Obama administration defenders and reflexive EPA protectors to scream that it ain’t so.
Almost.
On Monday we published a news story by Daily Caller reporter Matthew Boyle about this. Matthew reported that the EPA had found itself in the odd position of admitting that new regulations (as written) would force it to hire those 230,000 new federal employees — at an astonishing annual cost to taxpayers of $21 billion — in order to boost the number of greenhouse gas “polluters” it polices from 14,000 to a whopping 6.1 million.