by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Newly unearthed emails suggest an even deeper level of collusion between Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) career staff and lobbyists to keep an Obama-era regulation in place. It’s only the latest development in the Trump administration’s battle to finalize a repeal of Obama-era regulations slapped on a small section of the [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began the process of replacing former President Barack Obama’s signature global warming regulation that was supposed to bring the U.S. into compliance with the Paris climate accord. But those plans were dashed when President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw from the Paris [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in cnsnews.com President Trump wants to get you into a new car of your choice for less money and sooner rather than later. To make that happen, his administration has just proposed to eliminate the pointless and expensive fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks [...]
On August 7, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Steve was a panelist at one of the Heartland Institute's Energy First Conference held in New Orleans, LA. Walcher was one of three panelists on a session, Reforming EPA: Lots Of Progress, More To Do. As the panel description explained, "Three members of President Trump’s Transition Team for [...]
On August 2, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junk Science Founder Steve Milloy appeared on Fox Business News. He discusses the Trump administration freezing fuel-efficiency standards and EPA efforts to rein in regulations under President Trump.
by Steve Milloy Junkscience.com and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow So now we know why Cummins-engine-using Volvo Trucks and the EPA Deep Staters (DEEPA?) in its Michigan emissions lab didn’t want to test Cummins engines against glider engines... BOTTOM LINE: Volvo Trucks, Cummins Inc. and the rest of the new truck industry conspired with EPA [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew a “no action assurance” notice that delayed enforcement of an Obama admnistration-era regulation the agency is working to repeal, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler decided current regulations limiting the sale of glider kits — refurbished truck engines placed [...]
Junkscience.com founder and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow testified yesterday on a topic he literally wrote the book: science reform. In the testimony he said in part: Since 1990s, EPA grantees like Harvard’s Doug Dockery and Brigham Young University’s Arden Pope have refused to make available to the public the raw data used in their epidemiologic [...]
by Sean Reilly E&E News reporter When acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler laid out the need for more certainty to agency employees in a get-acquainted speech Wednesday, his top priority might have come as a surprise: risk communication. "Risk communication goes to the heart of EPA's mission of protecting public health and the environment," he [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A regulation to strictly limit the sale of refurbished truck engines was effectively repealed on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s final day in office. Pruitt’s last day at the agency was Friday, but that same day, EPA shifted its policy towards glider kits, which are trucks with [...]
