“Environmental Protection Agency” on The Daily Caller

The Environmental Protection Agency held 12 hours of stacked hearings in Washington, D.C. and Chicago on Thursday in favor of a regulation that analysts have concluded would kill the building of new conventional coal plants in the U.S. (more)

The debate over global warming is alive and well, but the European Trading Scheme (ETS), Europe’s carbon market, has been declared “dead.” With the price of European carbon allowances plummeting, Johannes Teyssen, CEO of Germany’s E.ON, says, “I don’t know a single person in the world that would invest a dime based on ETS signals.” (more)

Libertarian Fox Business Network host John Stossel says that though he wants a limited government, that certainly doesn’t mean he wants no government. He even thinks the EPA is necessary. (more)

“You can’t professionalize if you don’t federalize,” former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle declared in 2002, just before the Senate voted to create the Transportation Security Administration. (more)

High school civics students and aficionados of “Schoolhouse Rock!” can be forgiven if they are bewildered by what took place in the U.S. Senate last week. It was Barack “We Can’t Wait” Obama’s new process of turning a bill into a law — not by duly passing it in both houses of Congress, but by issuing bureaucratic dictates and counting on Senate Democrats to block any effort to stop them. (more)

The resignation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 6 administrator does not change the institutional problem with the agency’s enforcement philosophy, Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe told The Daily Caller on Monday. (more)

Imagine that every man, woman and child in the United States lacked access to safe drinking water. Now imagine that British scientists had discovered vast underground reserves of potable water from the Rockies to the Appalachians, and a university researcher had announced a major breakthrough in nanotechnology that could convert wastewater into clean, drinkable H2O. With human suffering on that scale, we would drill for the water until the new technology came online, environmental consequences be damned, right? Or would the Environmental Protection Agency “crucify” water drillers, too? (more)

The EPA Region 6 administrator who boasted of his “crucify them” philosophy of enforcement for oil and gas producers has resigned from his post at EPA. Al Armendariz announced Monday that he had submitted a letter of resignation Sunday. (more)

Twenty nine of the 42 representatives in the states contained within EPA’s Region 6 — as well as Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King and Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks — are pushing for the removal of Al Armendariz from his post as EPA Region 6 Administrator for his “crucify them” enforcement philosophy against U.S. oil and gas companies. (more)

The YouTube channel where Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe’s office originally discovered the video of EPA official Al Armendariz speak about his “crucify them” enforcement philosophy has scrubbed the original video and lodged a complaint against Inhofe to YouTube. (more)

The EPA official who bragged about his “crucify them” enforcement philosophy against oil and gas companies — a story The Daily Caller was the first to report on Wednesday – has collected or shared in at least $540,522 in taxpayer dollars from the federal government to fund environmental projects that stretched from 2004 to 2010. (more)

Following in the footsteps of three of their colleagues, Texas Republican Rep. Pete Olson and Louisiana Republican Reps. Steve Scalise, Rodney Alexander, and Charles Boustany are calling for the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz. (more)

Texas Republican Rep. Ted Poe became the third congressman to call for EPA Region Six Administrator Al Armendariz’s resignation Thursday evening. (more)

Two congressmen are demanding the immediate resignation of an Environmental Protection Agency official who publicly claimed it was his policy to “crucify” companies into compliance. (more)

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe is not buying the mea culpa offered by the EPA official who bragged about the agency’s “crucify them” enforcement philosophy against oil and gas companies. (more)

The Obama-appointed Environmental Protection Agency official who explained that the agency uses a “crucify them” enforcement philosophy against oil and gas companies apologized for his comments on Wednesday night. (more)

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe took to the Senate floor Wednesday to announce an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s “crucify them” enforcement strategy to keep oil and gas producers in line. (more)

Our country is at a crossroads. (more)

The oppressive monster known as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not just killing jobs these days — it is intentionally avoiding transparency that may shed light on the political motivations behind the agency’s actions. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Wednesday set the first-ever national standards to control air pollution from gas wells that are drilled using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, but not without making concessions to the oil and gas industry. (more)