AS IF OURS WASN'T CREEPY ENOUGH – AT 11:46 A.M. ET:   Granted, our Environmental Protection Administration has done some good things.  But it's also done some foolish, dumb and ideologically crazy things, and it is a burden to our economy.

But get set.  There are those who want the concept of the EPA to go global.  Aren't you excited?  Can you just wait for international regulations that we'll be told we'll have to follow?  From the Washington Times:

Ahead of a mammoth United Nations sustainability conference in Rio de Janeiro next month, the Brazilian government has signaled a new push to get the U.N.’s top environmental body upgraded — a push long opposed by the United States.

Brazil wants to breathe new life into an initiative -- vigorously promoted since the 1990s by European leaders -- to replace the 40 year-old U.N. Environment Program with a full-fledged “specialized agency,” dubbed the U.N. Environment Organization. ...

According to the most recent Office of Management and Budget report to Congress on U.S. contributions to the U.N., American taxpayers accounted for $22.9 million directed to UNEP in 2010 – or 9.8 percent of its total funding. That sum included “voluntary” contributions from the Departments of Commerce, Interior and State, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency and NASA.

COMMENT:  Voluntary contribution?  I wasnt aware a government agency could make a voluntary contribution of taxpayers' funds without Congressional approval.  I suggest an investigation.

An international EPA would rapidly become an anti-American nightmare.  You may be sure that it would be dominated by America-resenting nations who would use the agency to restrict the U.S. while demanding "compensation" for our imagined sins.  As the story noted, we have opposed such an international body in the past.  But will Barack Obama?  I'm sure some of the people around him think it's a swell idea.  Maybe an election year would make Obama more cautious.  After the election, if he's re-elected, I'm not so sure.

May 26, 2012