Surviving Capitalism (Not) : EPA’s Abandoned Wyoming Fracking Study One Retreat of Many

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, July 4, 2013

EPA’s Abandoned Wyoming Fracking Study One Retreat of Many

Click here to access article by Abrahm Lustgarten from ProPublica.

EPA is a prime example of a typical capitalist government agency that pretends to serve the public interest, in this instance pretending to protect the environment. The agency is like the proverbial fox guarding the hen-house.

When the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly retreated on its multimillion-dollar investigation into water contamination in a central Wyoming natural gas field last month, it shocked environmentalists and energy industry supporters alike.