Seventeen years after Steve Milloy’s seminal and controversial investigation on behalf of the Department of Energy into whether EPA regulations are driven by science or politics, the House Energy and Commerce Committee gets around to exploring the issue. Continue reading Congress (finally) asks: Is science driving EPA policy, or is policy driving science?
Category: EPA
Enviros to sue EPA on ozone; Taxpayers to pay for lawsuit?
Enviro groups have filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue EPA over the ozone standard withdrawn by Obama. If they win, there’s a good chance that taxpayers may have to pay their legal costs. Click for the NOINOI. Click for a law review article about enviros recovering Clean Air Act legal costs.
EPA to ease off on Cross-State Pollution Rule?
“The Environmental Protection Agency, under pressure from some states, industry and Congress, is expected to ease an air quality rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions,” reports the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading EPA to ease off on Cross-State Pollution Rule?
Hero of the day: Rep. Andy Harris
We honor Maryland Congressman Andy Harris today as he spotlighted some of the junk science behind EPA’s air quality over-regulation. Continue reading Hero of the day: Rep. Andy Harris
EPAcalypse Now: Lights Out in 2012?
The National Mining Association last week asked the Obama EPA to reconsider its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) citing the agency’s failure to adequately consider electric reliability. While this may sound boring, if you like electricity and don’t want to be without air conditioning in future heat waves, you ought to read it. Continue reading EPAcalypse Now: Lights Out in 2012?
Rogue government: EPA disses its own IG
If EPA IG Arthur Elkins has any self-respect, he’ll resign. Continue reading Rogue government: EPA disses its own IG
EPA IG: Climate science review deficient
EPA’s endangerment finding was apparently not properly cooked. Continue reading EPA IG: Climate science review deficient
We're not defending EPA but…
… the claim that the agency has asked for 230,000 new employees and $21 billion to implement its greenhouse gas rules is not true. That said, the truth is actually worse. Continue reading We're not defending EPA but…
Congress asks EPA for secret health data — again
Are the days of secret science at the EPA numbered? Continue reading Congress asks EPA for secret health data — again
TRAIN passes house; Will it stop in the Senate?
The TRAIN Act to require cost-benefit analysis of EPA regs passed the House 249-169. Without a big push on Democrat Senators, however, it’s likely to die in the Senate. Rather than shut the government down over disaster aid and clean energy funding, Republicans should shut it down over the malignant Obama EPA.
The Ed Markey-Lisa Jackson Clown Show: EPA could save 572,000 lives per year with air rules
Here’s the transcript and video of today’s House hearing colloquy between Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and EPA chief Lisa Jackson in which Jackson says that EPA air rules could save as many lives as a cure for cancer. Continue reading The Ed Markey-Lisa Jackson Clown Show: EPA could save 572,000 lives per year with air rules
Debunked: Children more vulnerable to air pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency and its enviro allies claim that children are more vulnerable to air pollution than adults. Real data, now revealed for the first time, debunks this notion. Continue reading Debunked: Children more vulnerable to air pollution