I’m not certain that a President would want to, since there ARE good reasons fpr the agency to exist, but he could certainly gut its personnel and budget.
He certainly could install an IG that was a rabid pit-bull to investigate the Agency for fraud, waste, mismanagement and abuse.
And he could direct how much of the money Congress authorizes for it is actually spent by the agency by appointing a new Comptroller over it.
As long as those two, and the Administrator, have clear Marching Orders from the White House about the limits of their agency’s scope, then these kinds of gratuitous abuses would wither and cease.
The other option is for the utilities to grow a pair, get organized, and when the Federally subsidized Eco-extremists start their shenanigans,simply shut the the plant down. Where’s the law compelling a private company to supply electricity to people?
Removing a few 10,000 MW coal power plants off the grid would certainly spell out some harsh facts of life for the voting public.
Look what it did for California a few years back…
