One of the reasons I was so fond of Ken Cuccinelli’s lawsuit on our behalf against the EPA’s carbon regulations was his willingness to take on the long unchallenged but severly suspect “data” behind the theory of man-made global warming.
As it turns out, my state senator (Ryan McDougle) found another issue where the EPA was fudging numbers:
Two veteran members of the Virginia General Assembly and co-chairs of the Joint Republican Business Caucus, Delegate Tim Hugo of Clifton, Virginia and Senator Ryan McDougle of Mechanicsville, Virginia announced the release of a letter today to Governor Bob McDonnell, which noted that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Chesapeake Bay Program has been using faulty data in their efforts to encourage the six (6) Bay states and the District of Columbia to strengthen their stormwater management regulations.
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The basis for much of the encouragement of the Bay states, including Virginia and the District of Columbia by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency – Chesapeake Bay Program has been a widely cited and widely published sound-bite as follows: “From 1990 to 2000, impervious surfaces increased by 41% -a rate of 5 times greater than the 8% of population growth during that time.”
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NOW, a private firm based in Prince William County, Virginia, Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI), one of the region’s most respected environmental consulting firms, has analyzed the EPA’s Phase 5.2 watershed model and reached a very different conclusion. WSSI’s lengthy analysis determined that, between 1990 and 2000, population increased by 10.3% and impervious surface increased by 14.2%, not by a 5-to-1 ratio claimed by the EPA, and only by a 1.1-to-1 ratio in Virginia during that period. Delegate Hugo and Senator McDougle noted that the WSSI analysis has been shared with the EPA and was not refuted by the federal agency.
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Both Veteran State Legislators encouraged Governor McDonnell to ask the EPA how long they have known about the inaccuracy of the 5 to 1 ratio, especially since the EPA website indicates the population had been recalculated in February, 2009. They also ask the governor to ask about the purpose of the EPA in continuing to promote the 5 to 1 ratio in the Stormwater debate.
All I can say is, Senator McDougle, please do not give up eastern Spotsylvania during redistricting next year.
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[...] Then again, elsewhere on her site, she laments that the courts reduced the broad reach of the EPA, never mind the agency’s record of fudging data right here in our district. [...]
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