environmental protection agency
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Environment/Energy
Trump Cuts Clean Power Plan, Boosts America’s Prospects
by H. Sterling Burnett October 30, 2017The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a notice in the Federal Register that it is rescinding former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP).
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyRegulationScience
Clean Power Plan Must Go Say Scientists
by H. Sterling Burnett October 27, 2017A group of 65 scientists and public health experts have joined a growing chorus of voices calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to review and withdraw its endangerment finding for carbon dioxide.
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Efforts to block and sabotage pipelines hurt jobs, economic growth, middle class, human safety.
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EconomicsEnvironment/Energy
Bureaucracy Power Grab Comment Periods Are Always Stupid – And Often Corrupt
by Seton Motley September 12, 2017We have very many times discussed the very many unilateral power grabs of the very many Executive Branch departments, agencies, commissions and boards.
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Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would inflict major land, wildlife, resource damage.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyScience
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Scare Pollution’ a Pulitzer Prize-worthy Piece of Investigative Journalism
by Jay Lehr June 16, 2017This amazing book is a must-read, especially for new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who needs to fully comprehend the rogue nature of the agency he now leads.
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Throughout the first 100 days of the Trump administration, policymakers in energy-producing states have seen many positive improvements emerging out of Washington, D.C.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Clean Power Plan: An Autopsy Of A Terrible Regulation
by Isaac Orr May 8, 2017CPP, if implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), would have only averted .019 degrees C of potential future warming by 2100. This amount is too low to be accurately measured with even the most sophisticated scientific equipment.
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This may shock the myriad of government employees that work at the Environmental Protection Agency, but there’s a five-year plan being mulled that would lead to the agency’s dissolution.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPolitics
EPA Staffer: We’re Hitting the Bottle Because of Trump
by Jim Lakely April 8, 2017It’s a good sign that words by Trump and actions encouraged by Myron Ebell and the rest of the climate realist EPA team have meaning. But drink up, government alarmists!
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Lawmakers in Nevada have introduced legislation that would ban hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” a process that has led to a dramatic increase in oil and natural gas production in the United States.
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Environment/Energy
Trump Cites Wyoming Rancher While Signing Waters of the U.S. Order
by Kathy Hoekstra March 3, 2017Calling it one of the worst examples of federal regulation, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 28 directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and revise its “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule.
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President Trump has wasted no time putting his unique stamp on energy and environmental policies.