Jennifer Yachnin and Daniel Bush, E&E reporters Greenwire Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) formally resigned yesterday amid allegations of public corruption and questions over whether his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, used her position as an adviser on energy issues for personal gain. But whether Republicans can successfully push the scandal beyond the Beaver State's borders [...]
By Chris Horner Senior Legal Fellow, Energy & Environment Legal Institute As Appearing in the Washington Times This week Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, leaves office, having resigned under the cloud of a cronyism and corruption scandal. A U.S. attorney has subpoenaed “records that are a catalog of Kitzhaber’s climate and economy-related initiatives,” centering [...]
by John Fund National Review Online Oregon governor John Kitzhaber may have announced that he will resign, but a sweeping FBI investigation of him and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is only getting started. While the story involves personal failings, the green-energy lobbying scandal that brought them down has national lessons and implications. If oil companies and pharmaceutical concerns shouldn’t exercise [...]
by Robin Bravender and Amanda Peterka E&E Reporters Wanted: Nonsmoking, active adults to inhale nitrogen dioxide and ozone during a workout. Those people will help U.S. EPA study the physiological changes caused by the exposure to dirty air. Participants would breathe clean air laced with pollution; exercise on and off during exposures; and have their breathing, [...]
Hoppy Kercheval WV MetroNews The West Virginia Legislature is considering bills (HB 2004 and SB 4) that would give lawmakers oversight for how the state Department of Environmental Protection plans to meet the federal EPA’s sweeping plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, states must submit plans for reducing carbon emissions [...]
by Steve Wilson Mississippi Watchdog A former Environmental Protection Agency regulator warns that while the Obama administration now has coal in its crosshairs, natural gas is next in line. David Schnare cites a proposed rule on methane emissions as one of the ways President Obama and the EPA will clamp down on natural gas...Schnare, general [...]
Greenwire A former U.S. EPA official is asking Mississippi lawmakers to defy the agency's Clean Power Plan, saying the results could be fatal if they do not. David Schnare, a former EPA regulator and noted climate change skeptic, appeared yesterday before a joint legislative committee in the state Legislature asking that the lawmakers pass bills [...]
by Jeffrey Hess Mississippi Public Broadcasting The head of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality believes the state cannot meet ambitious new federal carbon pollution regulations. Some are calling on state lawmakers to resist following the new federal rules... Former EPA official turned critic Dr. David Schnare also called on lawmakers to put on the [...]
Emily Le Coz The Clarion-Ledger Former Environmental Protection Agency regulator David Schnare urged Mississippi lawmakers to defy a federal rule requiring states to implement sweeping greenhouse-gas reduction plans, calling it both costly and illegal... But Schnare called it an unrealistic agenda that violates states’ rights and could inadvertently kill as many as 600 Mississippians by [...]
by Paul Chesser National Legal and Policy Center Another disturbing revelation of experiments on humans by the Environmental Protection Agency has been uncovered, after similar tests were exposed at EPA’s Human Studies Facility at the University of North Carolina 2 ½ years ago. This time the “research” was conducted at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles. The test subjects were [...]
