During his State of the Union address last week, President Obama joked about the absurdity of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that could have forced dairy farmers to pay $10,000 for spilled milk. Equally absurd is the same agency fining companies $6.8 million in 2011 for failing to use a fuel that does not exist. Even more absurd is raising the fine in 2012 — but that is exactly what the EPA is doing. (more)
An Idaho couple facing $37,500 per day in Environmental Protection Agency fines for building on what the agency says is a “wetland” had their day in court — the Supreme Court — on Jan. 9. And the tough questions leveled at the EPA’s attorney by nearly all the justices do not bode well for the federal government’s case. (more)
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday released a list of the major emitters of greenhouse gases in 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported. Of the top 100 emitters, 96 were power plants. (more)
In 2011 the Environmental Protection Agency provided $1 million in grants to 46 different non-profit and tribal organizations to promote what it called “environmental justice.” Since 1994, a little-noticed EPA program has handed out a total of $23 million in such grants to 1,253 organizations, for stated purposes that observers are questioning. (more)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Five Occupy protesters were arrested Thursday outside the Iowa campaign headquarters of presidential contender Ron Paul as the group continued its protest against Republican candidates and President Barack Obama. (more)
The Environmental Protection Agency is in the midst of a regulatory spree of unprecedented proportions. Claiming that it is acting in support of public health, the EPA has brushed aside procedural requirements and due process concerns to enact a slew of new environmental regulations set to go into effect over the next three years. On Friday, however, the EPA’s disregard for due process came back to haunt it when a federal court threw out new restrictions on the manufacture and storage of cement. (more)
California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer said on Tuesday that House Republicans will kill 8,100 Americans with the latest version of their payroll tax cut bill. (more)
WASHINGTON—The House has passed a bill to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from cracking down on farm dust, even though the agency says it has no plans to regulate that pollution. (more)
The Obama administration’s new proposal to double the fuel efficiency of cars by 2025 may cost up to $157 billion and add $2,000 to the price of passenger automobiles, according to two federal agencies. (more)
1.) Steered science — As we all know, scientists are mighty, infallible wizards whom we mere mortals may not question. Once “scientific” “consensus” has been reached in a certain area of sorcery — such as, say, global warming — you can just shut up about how your taxes are being spent if you know what’s good for you. (more)
The Environmental Protection Agency has used bogus “press release science” to defend analyses of how Clean Air Act regulations affect the public’s health while downplaying their economic costs, two congressmen declared Tuesday. (more)
On Thursday the Senate failed to pass a resolution that would have invalidated a major new environmental regulation governing interstate emissions. Passage of the resolution would have been a major setback for the Obama administration, and at least a symbolic victory for those who argue EPA has run amok. (more)
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney remains silent as Gina McCarthy, his “green quarterback” during his days in the Massachusetts Governor’s Mansion, steers President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency toward new regulations on energy. (more)
President Obama, in keeping with his recent habit of only visiting states that are important to his electoral prospects, is back in North Carolina this week. During previous presidential visits to the Land of the Pines, Americans for Tax Reform has highlighted the damaging economic effects that Obama’s fiscal policies have had — or will have — on the Tar Heel State. During Obama’s June visit to Durham, N.C., I noted in The Daily Caller the adverse impact that the president’s FY 2012 budget proposal would have on the small businesses that drive North Carolina’s economy. (more)
Last week, Senator Rand Paul hosted an event called “Property Wrongs: A Discussion with the Victims of the U.S. Government’s Assault on Private Property.” The event was held in the same room as the Watergate hearings, but unlike those hearings, Paul’s event went largely unnoticed by the media. That’s a shame, because the stories told there need to be heard. Each represents a greater threat to American liberty than the Watergate break-in. (more)
President Obama threatened Monday night to veto two GOP bills rolling back Environmental Protection Agency regulations. (more)
The idea that the Environmental Protection Agency might hire as many as 230,000 new bureaucrats to staff a regulatory regime related to greenhouse gases is, without question, a shock to the system. (more)
The Environmental Protection Agency has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be “absurd” in application and “impossible to administer” by its self-imposed 2016 deadline. But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats — at a cost of $21 billion — to attempt to implement the rules. (more)
Ahead of an anticipated Friday U.S. House vote on legislation that would mandate economic analyses of certain EPA clean-air regulations, dueling reports and political jockeying underscore one of Capitol Hill’s most hotly contested environmental battles this year. (more)
Ever heard of a group called the “Breast Cancer Fund”? No? You’re not alone. BCF is a friendly sounding advocacy group that “works to connect the dots between breast cancer and exposures to chemicals and radiation in our everyday environments.” The “connect the dots” part is key. BCF has taken it upon itself to replace science with conjecture and draw conclusions based on a desire to rid the world of chemicals that actually keep us safe and healthy. (more)
