Between now and January 20 is the time not only for last-minute looting and outrageous pardons, but for pushing the envelope of administrative state tyranny even further before the incoming administration can scale it back.

The Environmental Protection Agency is going over the top to enforce the maliciously anti-industry American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act (named as appropriately as the inflationary Inflation Reduction Act).

Via Fox News:

The AIM Act led to the arrest of Michael Hart, of San Diego, in March on charges related to “smuggling potent greenhouse gases,” highlighted in the EPA report. The charges marked the first-ever greenhouse gas-related arrest issued under the AIM Act, but according to an EPA press release from earlier this year, “it will not be the last.”

Better stay away from bean burritos until the EPA has been reined in — or better still abolished.

EPA tyranny does not end with throwing people in prison for the imaginary offense of making the weather be too warm:

Additionally, the EPA reported issuing $1.7 billion in administrative and judicial penalties…

The agency’s environmental enforcement efforts also saw 1,851 civil cases concluded, 121 criminal defendants charged, and it issued more than 225 million pounds of “pollution reductions” in “overburdened communities,” according to the report. As of the end of 2024, there are about 480 open criminal investigations on environmental programs.

Ideologically deranged federal bureauweenies are a menace to both liberty and the economy. DOGE should have no difficulty finding good reason to fire virtually all of them.

Biden has made issuing green energy projects a focus of his administration, most recently handing out billions of dollars to fund climate-related projects in the remaining months of his term before President-elect Trump steps into office.

Looting the treasury for the sake of flagrantly wasteful spending will remain a Democrat priority to the bitter end.

On tips from Chuck A and R F.