Is the EPA stonewalling fee waiver and FOIA requests made by red states?

  If this story is true it looks as if the IRS isn’t the only extra-governmental agency using its power to stifle conservative opposition. It looks as if the EPA has been less than willing to turn over documents to several states with Republican governors which have made FOIA requests in regards to lawsuits the EPA has settled out of court in recent years. The issue at hand here is the prospect that the EPA is creating environmental regulations based on these out of court settlements, many people wish to see the documents which might have led to these new regulations.

  That doesn’t really surprise me; from Fast and Furious to Benghazi and on and on, not releasing requested documents is standard operating procedure from the Obama regime, but in this instance it appears to be based solely on political affiliation:

The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute obtained documents showing that since January 2012, the EPA granted fee waivers for 92 percent of FOIA requests from major environmental groups, while the agency rejected or ignored 81 percent fee waiver requests from conservative groups

  If you are with the cause the EPA has no problem releasing the documents, but if you are a conservative you most likely will be ignored or rejected. But the bias apparently does not stop there because we are also learning the EPA may be granting fee waivers to sympathetic groups while stonewalling fee waivers to conservative groups.

The EPA denied fee waiver requests to the twelve attorneys general and the decision was appealed by the states in March. However, the EPA has been dragging its feet, twice asking for more time to consider their appeal.

The states are especially concerned given reports that the EPA has been routinely denying fee waiver requests to conservative groups seeking government records, while granting them to environmental groups that seek to push more federal involvement in state environmental rules.

  There you have it, if this is true than it appears as if the EPA is involved in IRSesque style political discrimination. If you are for bigger, more intrusive environmental regulations you will not have a problem but if you are for less government intrusion most likely you will be targeted for a future relegated to the back burner and this is nothing more than political intimidation and an attempt to intimidate groups into accepting the agenda.

  The United States is currently in the grips of a thugocracy willing to reach its goals by any means necessary. Remember it was Barack Obama himself who declared there was more than one way to skin a cat when the cap and trade legislation died in the Congress, now we are finding out exactly what Barack Obama meant.