The guy who wrote those articles is a professor at the University of Houston, and he’s pretty much a right wing space nut. He doesn’t understand debt or the economy, and is guilty of making up numbers (which he calls hypothetical) in order to illustrate his points. Yeah, sure, the world would be going to hell in a handbasket if he numbers were real. But he made them up just to make it look like the world is doing badly.
His article about sue and settle also makes it clear that he is just a front propagandist for some far right wing nut congress critters and their secret funders. He infuses the article with innuendo and misrepresentations all over the place. He has done no real investigation. He is just casting aspersions. No one has actually talked to any of the EPA folks or the environmental organizations (which are mainstream, middle of the road organizations) to find out what is going on. They don’t want to find out. They just want to sit back and toss bombs, like most radical conservatives.
There is no real information here to go on. No case. Just crazies blowing smoke. As you were.