Freedom Of Information Act

It seems as if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been avoiding encounters with people who are fighting for environmental justice. However, there may be an underlying reason why the EPA is not putting effort into these environmental problems. Over the years, the EPA has experienced budget cuts, this has resulted in the loss of jobs and programs. When money is not readily available, the amount of money that is available is usually conserved and only used when necessary. It does not look as if they are the reason why majority of the issues are not be taken care of. Based on my understanding of the article, it seems as if the EPA is working at the will of the government. The people working in the agency are responsible for doing their

not transferred to countries outside European economic area unless country has adequate protection for the individual

With the well-being of future generations in mind, environmental concerns have begun to establish a permanent residence atop the priority ladder for a vast array of Americans. Consequently, writers and political pundits alike are seizing this opportunity to capitalize on advocating their stance on the issue. Information, representing all positions, pours in at an unrelenting and unfathomable rate. For the average American it can be an arduous process sifting through all the rhetoric in attempt to find the real truth regarding our impact as humans on the environment; one such example is Susan Brown’s article The EPA’s Mercury Problem. In this article Brown attempts to expose hypocrisy among progressives by paralleling the Environmental Protection

Part I: Overview of Case (who is involved and what they are arguing, as well as all possible theories, defenses, and torts involved)

case could have been legal by the constitution, but it was not part of the

The Trump administration is closely monitoring the roles of independent regulatory agencies since the president signed the executive order to reduce the regulatory burdens created by Dodd-Frank. Since many people consider the CFPB an independent agency, several student loan debt holders are left to wonder if a federal agency will exist to help protect them from predatory lending practices.

As a result of this practice, the president could easily fire commissioners that would oppose him and would fill the positions with commissioners that would support him politically.

Within the hierarchy of Presidential political appointees, White House policy czars are becoming both more prominent and more controversial. The Administration’s policy czar positions are established either by Executive order or by Presidential directive. In some cases, a powerful Governor or the national political committee for the President’s party will convince the President to establish a subject matter czar to emphasize the importance of a particular issue. The czars’ role is to direct Federal policy development and manage interagency requirements associated with implementing the President’s political agenda.

The plaintiffs stated that the law that was passed by congress did not apply to them because that law was passed decades after they were offered and they accepted the free passes from the defendants. They also argued that if the law passed by congress did apply to them then the law should be considered unconstitutional due to the law depriving the defendants their property without due process of law. The defendant attempted to object the pleadings of the plaintiff in which the judge of the Circuit court overruled and awarded relief to the plaintiffs. The defendants then appealed straight to the United States Supreme

Having Steve Bannon in the National Security Council amongst many other decisions Donald Trump has made during his presidency so far has caused a lot of concerns. There can be arguments from Bannon being a white supremacist to the fact that they turned down somebody with experience with cheaper pay for someone who spent their life talking on a radio show with NO experience for a higher pay.

Now, we have President Trump, who wants to put a known coal lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, into an executive position at the EPA. Even though, he signed an executive order to limit lobbying influence in government and “drain the swamp”, but puts people in power who favor energy industries and want to sacrifice environmental regulations (Chow, 2017). Wheeler has worked in government before, as an EPA staffer and a Republican staff member, and worked on every major piece of environmental and energy-related legislation over the last decade. If Wheeler and others like him are put into these executive positions, they will use their power to regulate policies, so it will look more favorably at reducing environmental regulations, and supporting energy

The oil and gas industry are affected by political and legal regulations. In 2009, companies in this industry spent at least $154 million on lobbying. The investment in lobbyist is critical to the operation of businesses in this industry. The lobbyist works closely with law makers to help influence their decisions, hoping to allow laws to pass or not pass depending on the needs of the industry. They effectively stalled climate legislation in 2009 that would have driven energy cost higher and forced the oil companies to terminate employees (Mulkeron, 2010).

that in the midst of all this that anything can be accomplished at all, but

Frank, manager of corporate reporting at Amalgamated Forest Products, has threatened to go public with information regarding a falsified report on the effect of effluent controls on the discharge of wastewater from pulp and paper companies, which has angered his boss, Jim McIntosh and the company’s president, Jim Letourneau. Letourneau was to testify before a legislative subcommittee the following week and use the report, “Endangered Species: The Pulp and Paper Industry in the Upper Peninsula”, to give the industry’s perspective on proposed legislation. The section of the report which contained the falsified financial information was prepared by Tina

Act was made law in 1984 but was replaced by a new Act in 1998 to