by Matthew Foldi Washington Reporter President Donald Trump and his administration are receiving backup from a coalition of energy policy experts for their move to rescind an Obama-era regulation that Rep. Harriet Hageman (R., Wyo.) previously told the Washington Reporter is “the head of the snake for all of the challenges that we’ve had for [...]
by Audrey Streb The Lion The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pivoting from a long-contested chemical risk assessment program it notes Congress never authorized and critics say became a tool for targeting chemical facilities, including plants sterilizing medical equipment at the height of COVID-19. While the agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program was launched in 1985 as an internal library of chemical safety assessments, former agency [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel This week the Senate finally confirmed the new director of the Bureau of Land Management, former New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce. The firestorm surrounding his nomination a few weeks earlier has not yet cooled and probably won’t. The volume is louder than the situation [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel I don’t know anyone else who tracks the number of federal cops, but the watchdog group Open the Books occasionally reports on the burgeoning number of federal agencies with law enforcement divisions. The latest report, “The Militarization of Federal Bureaucracy,” detailed the astonishing scope [...]
by Sean Moran Breitbart Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffers, now at environmental groups, have moved to kill the repeal of what is considered to be the “holy grail of the climate change religion.” Last July, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to repeal the Obama-era Endangerment Finding, which the agency has sued [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1970 when President Nixon presented to Congress “Reorganization Plan No. 3,” no one foresaw the eventual result — some of history’s greatest environmental successes, and a virtual stranglehold on economic progress. America’s air and water are far cleaner today, automobiles emit virtually nothing, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The New Seekers are best remembered for wanting to buy the world a Coke in their classic hit, “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.” But a year earlier, they first hit the charts with another standard, “Look What They’ve Done to My [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on The Washington Examiner President Donald Trump on Feb. 12 announced the “biggest deregulatory move in history” — the Environmental Protection Agency rescission of the 2009 Obama administration EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases with respect to vehicles. It is a [...]
by Victor Nava, Taylor Herzlich and Josh Christenson The New York Post The Trump administration’s repeal of the Obama-era “endangerment finding” will lower car costs by an average of $2,400 per vehicle, the White House and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) touted Thursday. Here’s why. The action announced by President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin [...]
