by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A major environmental group is launching a massive campaign to strangle the coal industry, push green energy sources and increase electricity prices for much of the country, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. TheDCNF obtained an internal Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign document from an anonymous source. The [...]
by Jennifer G. Hickey NewsMax Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal emissions are unconstitutional because the agency colluded with environmental groups in formulating the rules, an attorney with a nonprofit environmental law firm tells Newsmax. On March 10, Chris Horner filed an 81-page formal regulatory comment asserting that legal precedent has established that a rule [...]
by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online The Environmental Protection Agency’s anti-transparency shenanigans are as entertainingly bizarre as they are pathetic. The agency has been stonewalling Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and counsel for the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. If you recall, Horner is the public-records expert who discovered [...]
by Chris Horner E&E Legal Senior Fellow Guest Blogger, Watts Up With That In the early 2000’s, the public was introduced to Enron “Shredding Parties,” where documents were destroyed to avoid possible embarrassment or legal consequences. These bashes represented the height of corporate decadence, an open flouting of the law. It came from a rotten [...]
by Drew Johnson Senior Fellow, Taxpayers Protection Alliance Detroit Free Press While running for reelection in 2012, President Barack Obama repeatedly claimed that he would pursue an “all of the above” energy policy. But after winning a second term, his administration seems to have decided that “all of the above” doesn’t include oil, natural gas or [...]
by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency routinely collaborates with environmental activist groups to develop stringent regulatory policies and strategies, according to emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The emails confirm longstanding suspicions that EPA pursues hidden agendas on behalf of environmental [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Now that the State Department has once again found that the Keystone XL pipeline will have little environmental impact, environmentalists are saying the government’s report is plagued by conflicts of interest with the oil and gas industry. But the real conflict of interest lies between activists and federal officials who [...]
by Bill Wilson Board Member, Americans for Limited Government Foxnews.com In January 2011 President Obama – stung by an electoral rebuke that cost his party control of the House of Representatives – issued an executive order attempting to reassure the public regarding his rapidly expanding regulatory state. Obama’s order instructed federal agencies to “identify and [...]
by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online For the fifth time in as many years, the State Department has found that the Keystone XL pipeline would not have a significant impact on the environment or worsen carbon emissions, according to a new report released Friday. That’s further evidence that the environmental lobby’s vociferous moaning about [...]
by Sam Rolley Personal Liberty Digest To the horror of American conservatives and job creators, the Environmental Protection Agency has enjoyed a massive expansion in its regulatory authority under the Administration of Barack Obama. The EPA’s public agenda — which includes major regulations to limit industrial, power plant and auto emissions as well as a [...]
