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EPA Encouraging 'Energy Patrols' at Schools

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Tuesday, 09 October 2012 13:02

Written by Justin Credible

The environmental movement dates all the way back to Karl Marx.  To control the individual, health care and the environment are the two most important aspects - they're easy to disguise.  This is how liberals have indoctrinated students since the 1960s. Eco-terrorism is real, but it's less of a concern to the cozy relationship the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has with many extreme environmental front groups.  Celebrating "Children Health Month," the EPA is pushing for "Energy Patrols" at schools.

Here are some additional details from CNS News:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is celebrating Children’s Health Month this October by providing information and health tips on its website, including the importance of energy efficiency in schools.

On the website page is a link to a 26-page EPA report entitled, “Sensible Steps to Healthier School Environment.” In the report’s chapter on Energy Efficiency, the EPA presents a box with items to help establish “Energy Efficiency Opportunities for Schools.”

One of the items in the box reads, “Educate students and staff about how their behaviors affect energy use. Some schools have created student energy patrols to monitor and inform others when energy is wasted.”

For example, the Arizona Public School’s website provides information for setting up energy patrols. The website states “emphasize social action through environmental education gives students a chance to do something about environmental problems instead of just hearing about them.”

The APS website says that patrol members can be provided with ID tags, vests and clipboards. Their responsibilities include leaving reminders to better conserve energy in rooms they find that have the lights on but are unoccupied.

In Alabama schools, the energy patrols are described as groups of 10 to 20 students who are tasked with monitoring the school’s energy use.

“When lights are found on unnecessarily, they are quickly turned off,” the website states. “Periodically, thermostats are also checked to see that they stay at an energy saving 70 in the winter and 78 in the summer. All windows and doors will be noticed for efficient solar energy usage and all water leaks will be reported. Door hangers are left as reminders to do better and to provide encouragement or praise.”

The EPA report connects energy efficiency and children’s health by way of “greenhouse gas emissions.”

“By being more energy efficient, schools can save money and prevent greenhouse gas emissions,” the report states. “School districts can use the savings from improved energy performance to help pay for building improvements and other upgrades that enhance the learning environment.”

The EPA started under Nixon and Republicans certainly helped expand the unelected bureaucracy.  However, they never had a radical agenda like President Obama and his eco-minions.  Today, enviro-Nazi groups, like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, frequently sue companies to prevent them from doing something they believe will hurt the environment.  Guess where some of their funds come from?  They're loans from the EPA.  

With the fat slob Lisa Jackson heading up the EPA, policy is often written with these ecomentalist groups sitting at the table.  It's been a great way for extreme liberals to circumvent Congress and impose their regulations by fiat.  The EPA has turned into an effective tool for radical leftists.  In fact, we've already seen enviro-Nazi's try to use the EPA to control other things that liberals hate.  In 2010, liberals tried to regulate gun control by going after the lead in bullets.  It was an outrageous abuse of the EPA, which faced such massive backlash that the EPA rejected the ban.

By starting with students, which is exactly where the environmental movement started in the 1960s, liberals are cementing their agenda at an early age.  "Energy Patrols," while seemingly harmless, are no doubt intended to indoctrinate more students at a young age.  What starts out as harmless will quickly spawn into a young generation supporting every radical element of liberalism.

Justin Credible is a contributing editor for Habledash.