USEPA crusade goes on

Despite the change in administation USEPA continues its anti-roads crusade. You might think with 77 people working to block roads via air quality issues and some 25 wielding the ‘smart growth’ club that they’d be fully staffed up. But, no, Ken Adler head of the agency’s Transp Policy and Evalutation Group (TPEG) has emailed a number of people around Washington DC with this: “The U.S. EPA’s Transportation Policy and Evaluation Group (TPEG) is seeking to a hire a number of smart, dynamic people interested and experienced in issues related to improving transportation and the environment. I would appreciate your posting this announcement, and sharing it with others who may be interested.”

EPA has also recently been asking the states to pay for EPA field positions to review highway proposals, saying they do not have enough staff to do the job in a timely manner.

“Help us hire more staff so we can reject your road projects more promptly,” they say. Rather in the tradition of the Soviet NKVD which used to bill the relatives of the executed for the cost of the bullet used in the execution.