“Obama was not kidding when he said that ‘voting is the best revenge’ because he may have the last laugh whether he gets re-elected or not.” [Kerry Picket, Washington Times]
Category: EPA
November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation
“More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants.” [Washington Examiner]
Ralph Hall: Time to rein in the EPA
The scientific enterprise at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is broken, contrary to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s assertions that “science is the backbone of everything we do at EPA,” or that major regulations are based on the recommendations of EPA’s “independent” science advisors. As Americans face a fragile economy and skyrocketing energy prices fueled by President Obama’s agenda, it is important to pull back the curtain on the ideologically-driven processes EPA is using to justify an avalanche of costly rules. Continue reading Ralph Hall: Time to rein in the EPA
New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request
JunkScience.com has uncovered new documents conclusively proving that EPA researchers materially falsified a September 2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Continue reading New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request
GOP senator would likely oppose potential Romney EPA chief nominee
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is signaling that fealty to former President George W. Bush’s administration does not guarantee a potential senior nominee a clear path through Senate confirmation.
Vitter told Greenwire last week that James Connaughton, Bush’s former head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, would not get his support to be Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator. [The Hill]
Danger, Mitt Romney, Danger: GE General Counsel in Running for EPA Administrator
The general counsel of green energy rent-seeking, cap-and-trade-loving, and USCAP-founding member General Electric is reportedly a leading candidate to head the EPA in a Romney administration. Continue reading Danger, Mitt Romney, Danger: GE General Counsel in Running for EPA Administrator
Gregg Abbott: A Romney Pick for EPA That We Endorse
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is reportedly being considered by Mitt Romney to be EPA administrator. We endorse this pick for the reasons described in this Dallas Morning News article.
Michaels: Would (Could) Mitt Romney Rein in the EPA?
A 5-minute podcast from Pat Michaels. [Cato Institute]
Driessen: EPA anti-energy regulations killing jobs
“More and more, daily decisions are made less by responsible citizens than by nanny-state government, especially powerful, unelected, unaccountable executive branch agencies in Washington. Among the worst is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).” [Washington Times]
EPA's Dirty, Dark Secret
By STEVE MILLOY
October 23, 2012, Investor’s Business Daily | Print Version
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued in federal court for conducting illegal experiments on human beings. A federal judge will now determine whether the EPA has violated federal law and the most sacrosanct moral standards of scientific research or whether the EPA has been lying to Congress and the public about the dangers of air pollution. Continue reading EPA's Dirty, Dark Secret
Flashback: Head of EPA Bars Nazi Data In Study on Gas
“The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, alerted by a letter of protest from agency scientists, has barred from an E.P.A. report on a toxic gas any data that the Nazis acquired in experiments on concentration camp prisoners.” [New York Times, March 23, 1988]
NBC-17: Congress wants probe of human testing claims at UNC-CH
“Congress is acting against an EPA study in Chapel Hill that involved human test subjects breathing Diesel fumes.” [WNCN, NBC-17 (Raleigh)]