Watch Katherine Mangu-Ward Talk About the EPA's SunnyD Spill on Kennedy Tonight

When the government makes an environmental mistake, all the rules are different.

SunnyD

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) managed to spill a bunch of bright orange sludge into a Colorado river. It was an accident! Could have happened to anyone. (Probably.)

Regional EPA administrator Shaun McGrath says: "We're going to continue to work until this is cleaned up, and hold ourselves to the same standards that we would anyone that would have created this situation." That's great to hear.

Oh wait, just kidding: The EPA is totally not going to fine itself. 

Tune in to hear me talk about this topics and more on Kennedy's eponymous Fox Business show Kennedy tonight at 8 p.m. (or catch the rerun at 11 p.m.).

Comments

[Hugh Akston]

I'm sure if a private company was responsible for the spill and said they couldn't pay the fine because it wasn't in the budget the EPA would be cool with it.

[In League with the Dark Ones]

The fine will be paid by the taxpayers to the EPA in the form of a larger budget.

[Hugh Akston]

Well sure, I mean look at all these spills they have to clean up!

[F. Carlos the Jackal, Jr.]

+1 Broken window

[Lee G]

I'd be ok with that if they fired everyone remotely responsible.

[Rich]

How about if some middle manager gets reassigned and the underlings receive more training?

[Hugh Akston]

The system works!

[Lee G]

I think tarran has some recommendations on how to dismiss government employees.

[Cytotoxic]

SunnyD: so bad, so delicious.

[sarcasmic]

That stuff is gross. Nothing delicious about it.

[Mazakon]

I saw they had an orange strawberry flavour today. Didn't look all that great at all.

[Cytotoxic]

So refreshingly disgusting.

[Woody Chipset]

Government is the things we poison together.

[F. Carlos the Jackal, Jr.]

But see, government is better because unlike private enterprise, people are held accountable on election day!

[Woody Chipset]

That's demonstrably crazy! It's demo-crazy!

[Paul.]

The EPA is assuring us that the toxic stuff they were trying to clean up but subsequently spilled is perfectly safe!

[Woody Chipset]

Endlessly Prevaricating Assholes.

[Rich]

Sheesh, Paul -- they diluted it with river water to the point of harmlessness.

[Paul.]

It was homeopathic!

[Woody Chipset]

No homeo!

[OldMexican]

Re: Paul,

The EPA is assuring us that the toxic stuff they were trying to clean up but subsequently spilled is perfectly safe!

And for their next trick, they're going to attempt to convince us, through some crony proxy named "American Association Of..." something, that the spilled chemicals help save our teeth from decaying.

[Cytotoxic]

I thought the EPA only said that drinking was okay because the pumps for the drinking supply were shut off until the poison plume passed by and was gone?

[OldMexican]

Oh wait, just kidding: The EPA is totally not going to fine itself.

"It's not pollution when the Government does it! Because market failure (*)only involves the market!"

(*)Tony the Marxian's favorite lefty shibboleth.

[Brian]

"When the EPA does it, it's not illegal."

-Nixon

[Nwallins]

http://www.silvertonstandard.com/news.php?id=847

A geologist, in a Letter to the Editor in a local newspaper, predicted that the EPA would cause the disaster in a false flag operation.