California’s Environmental Police

Published on March 27, 2024

Commentary It takes multiple environmental agencies with totalitarian powers to regulate air, water, chemistry, nature, and freedom in California. California Environmental Protection Agency The second highest building in California’s capital, Sacramento, is the headquarters of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA). Cal EPA’s nearly 5,000 employees have their own safe spaces from nature, cars, and citizens. They are cocooned in their own bubble with security guards and fine art in a low-energy and low-emission building with bike racks and no parking. Employees receive subsidized light rail tickets. Caught using a “verboten” rodenticide to kills rats infesting the Cal EPA environs, EPA caved under pressure. Rats, fleas, plague, hantavirus, and typhus organisms breathed a sigh of relief....