Congress: Use RICO Laws to force EPA Leadership to Do Its Job

Today I take pen in hand and write you to urge immediate legal and legislative action against the leadership of the EPA, Lee Zeldin and the cabal of fossil fuel lawyers running the agency. The EPA cannot be forced to abandon its mission in favor of polluters and industry. That is not only NOT in the public interest, but likely illegal as well as immoral. It may even fall under criminal statutes. (See below) Like the abandonment of US AID for other countries, the willful neglect and abandonment of provable science is an act of sabotage against all people in the United States, and arguably, the world. The many side effects of added pollution are clear and indisputable. However, here I quote Joseph Robertson, the Executive Director of Citizens Climate International (CCI). In this role, he leads coordination of Citizens’ Climate engagement with United Nations institutions and processes, and is the chief executive for all CCI activities. Here’s his take on what’s happening to the EPA: In a recent newsletter, Robertson writes: “The EPA is required to control climate pollution—by statute, by Articles 1, 2 & 6 of the Constitution & the 1st, 9th & 14th Amendments. Ending climate policy to serve polluters will be an act of organized crime that will cost trillions of dollars. Those at EPA working to further this unlawful reduction of Americans’ right to redress, including [Administrator Zeldin], will be accomplices in the coordinated network of criminal actions used to carry out this paid service for polluting interests. The EPA has legally mandated responsibility to consider more evidence that is better developed & delivered, not less, to succeed in ending pollution of air & water, including climate pollution. Disabling research or regulatory capacity to enable unaccountable harm is illegal. There is no statute of limitations on a plot against the Constitution or on racketeering activity that corrupts government operations in order to create opportunity for members of the conspiracy to harm or kill people while reducing the availability of evidence. No one at EPA has legal authority to sabotage the agency’s effectiveness or to take actions designed to destroy evidence of attribution or evidence of danger that can be used to prevent harm or pursue Constitutionally protected right to redress.” What Robertson is saying is that perhaps RICO laws can be used to prosecute action against individuals and organizations — like fossil fuel interests. The leverage of criminal prosecution might be enough to get them to return the EPA to its former mission of Environmental Protection. Please use all available legislative action, and legal allies to bring this case forward. Thank you.