EPA’s Toxic Mega-spill May Have Been Deliberate, Critics Suggest

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a major mess of the Animas River in Colorado and beyond, and now, some analysts are suggesting it may have even been a deliberate plot to bilk taxpayers and shut down mining in the region. Critics of the EPA are pointing to a letter by geologist Dave Taylor, published a week before the toxic spill, warning residents to protect themselves from the EPA and predicting a similar disaster in the same area purposely caused by the controversial agency. Now, almost as if on cue, the EPA is seeking more money and more power to deal with the crisis that it created.

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Air Force gets order to help with oil spill

BRIETBART NEWS, 4/20/2010 - WASHINGTON (AP): The Pentagon has approved the use of two Air Force planes to dump chemicals on the oil spill threatening the Gulf Coast. ∴ Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Friday that Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved the operation by two C-130 Hercules cargo planes. ∴ The planes were sent from Ohio to Mississippi Thursday to await orders. A number of civilian planes have already been doing the same job—using chemicals to try to break up the oil. ∴ The federal government is working to determine how large a role the military should play in the cleanup. Read more at Brietbart... Read More......