EPA vs Texas
A fight against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was won in Texas this past week as the EPA allowed Texas significantly more flexibility when dealing with state permits concerning pollution...
View ArticleUSSC Hears Case on EPA Power
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in a case that revolved around the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. In 2010, the EPA regulated emissions from...
View ArticleEPA Proposal Promotes Fossil Fuel Use over Renewable Wood Use for Heating Homes
The latest example of big brother schemes brewing in Washington this year is the proposal of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to significantly restrict solid particulate emissions from wood...
View ArticleGovernment Subsides Help Distort Science
A $500,000 study released this past Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal, Nature Climate Change, detailed how corn-based biofuels release seven percent more greenhouse gases in the initial five-year...
View ArticleThe Limited Attention Span of our Federal Government
If you will indulge me, I feel like waxing philosophic about the impact that the many redistributive economic policies being promoted by the Obama Administration will likely have on our nation’s...
View ArticleReplace EPA Tyranny with a Democratic 50 State Council
A new study by Jay Lehr of the Heartland Institute explains a five year plan that replaces the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a 50 state “Committee of the Whole” group of environmental...
View ArticleThe Gas Tax
The American Petroleum Institute’s Gasoline Tax interactive map allows users to check out each state and the United States average state excise tax, other state taxes/fees, total state taxes/fees and...
View ArticleEPA’s Climate Change Adaption Plan
The Environmental Protection Agency has released their plans to reduce human greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for the effects of climate change. The EPA Sustainability Plan and Climate Change...
View Article2014 Election and the Future of Energy Legislation
Election Day is officially behind us. The votes are in, the campaign ads are over, and the traffic in front of the grocery store, local high schools and other polling places should go back to normal....
View ArticleSolar Energy Company Requests a Bailout to Pay Federal Loan
Typical of Obama administration supported renewable energy projects, yet another one is failing. Back in 2010, President Obama said that Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System would put 1,000 people...
View ArticleSuspicious Excessive Administrative Leave at the EPA
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report Federal Paid Administrative Leave: Additional Guidance Needed to Improve OPM Data, issues last October, provided data on administrative leave at...
View ArticleHow Gas-related Taxes have Created Unfunded Liabilities in Construction
As any responsible steward of income can probably state that any reduction in income must be met with a reduction in spending and likewise any increase in spending must be validated by an increase in...
View ArticleNASA and EPA Causing More Political Trouble
NASA released a new study that warns about severe weather, such as “megadroughts” that will plague the Southwest and Central Plains of the United States from 2050 to 2099. The study says that...
View ArticleWyoming Congresswoman to Wrangle Federal Overreach
Rep. Cynthia Lummis, a Republican from Wyoming and the new chair of the Interior Subcommittee of the House Oversight Reform Committee, says she is determined to provide strict oversight of President...
View ArticleThe Case for Lifting the Crude Oil Export Ban
The United States is running out of room in its crude oil storage facilities and the question is ― where does the crude go now? As domestic crude oil production continues to rise, it has no place to go...
View ArticleNational Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone response
Submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone.
View ArticleEPA Regulations Overruled by Supreme Court
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had not adequately considered the costs of its regulations before enacting them. Limits finalized in 2012 as part...
View ArticleGold King Mine an EPA Superfund Site
On Tuesday, August 11, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an Emergency Response Statement to a massive pollutant spill in Colorado. According to the agency, EPA contractors caused...
View ArticleOIG announces probe of EPA’s Reporting Practices on Biofuels Impact
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced a probe into the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) adherence to reporting requirements regarding biofuel’s impact on air quality. Under the...
View ArticleClean Power Plan Opposition Grows
A coalition of 24 states and a power company are suing to stop the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), calling it an unlawful federal bid to control state power grids. As part of the...
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