“Environmental Protection Agency” on The Daily Caller

“War,” as political metaphor, is most often a tasteless accessory that demeans the term to those who have actually experienced it (“war on poverty,” “war on drugs”). But to the extent it connotes a full-fledged attempt to subjugate a group of people by depriving them of their rights, the term may appropriately describe the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) posture toward landowners. (more)

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has sided with an Idaho couple in a property rights case, ruling they can go to court to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency order that blocked construction of their new home and threatened fines of more than $30,000 a day. (more)

The U.S. Government Accountability Office is trying to put an end to one wasteful federal habit: The 10,000 computers the Environmental Protection Agency estimates the government discards each week. (more)

Environmental Protection Agency regulations over the past decade that were designed to reduce the environmental impact of emissions from trucks have backfired, according to a study conducted by the American Truck Dealers division of the National Automobile Dealers Association. (more)

Rising gas prices are threatening to smother the nascent economic recovery. Meanwhile, Washington remains locked in its endless dance, lacking the vision to see the glaringly obvious solution to America’s energy problems. Increasing supply with new exploration and pipelines is certainly part of the answer, as are curbs on speculation in energy markets. But the real solution is staring us in the face: cheap, abundant, domestically produced natural gas. (more)

The energy business powers over 50 percent of Craig, Colorado’s economy, and makes the small town, which is home to one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the nation, a microcosm of the fight over green energy mandates versus traditional fuel sources. (more)

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is considering challenges this week to the Environmental Protection Agency’s determination that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are pollutants and subject to federal regulation. (more)

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)