By Dennis M. Mitchell, QEP, CPA

What would you do with an administrator of a diabetic clinic who, after years on the job, didn’t have a clue what constituted a high blood sugar level? It seems there are two very different paths to follow on this issue. If it’s a private clinic, prudence would call for replacing this person with one who has some general perspective about the science and medicine related to diabetes. Contrast this to our government that would promote this inept person to become the chief administrator over the whole hospital system! That’s exactly what is going on with the EPA; and this is a dangerous situation.

The recent fiasco appointment of Gina McCarthy to head the EPA is dangerous to the stewardship of environmental resources, as well as the American taxpayer, property rights, and personal freedoms.

Such ignorance of high school level facts regarding air quality, as Ms. Gina McCarthy has admitted during testimony (Feb 2012) with Joe Barton (R-TX), is pathetic. She had no idea what constituted a high level of CO2 when she was chief of EPA’s Air Division. In spite of her lack of these needed facts, newly imposed CO2 regulations still reined at the height of the discussion.

If you legally obtain some of McCarthy’s official agency emails, it’s likely you’ll see a huge majority of the text has been redacted…so that the public is not allowed to know her true intentions and instructions to her minions? What is she hiding and why is she hiding it? How many laws she has broken in pretense of enforcing the law?

Dennis Mitchell is certified as a Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) by the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice (IPEP) and is presently the chair of Ethics Committee for IPEP. He was a recipient of the Lifetime Honorary Award from the International Air & Waste Management Association in 2001. He was chair of the Climate Change Panel at the 104th International A&WMA Conference. He has been a member of Louisiana Society of CPA’s since 1985 and retired from Troy University where he taught both in both science and accounting.