How a FOIA Request Brought Down EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
Author Christopher Horner joined the Bloggers Briefing this week to discuss his new book, The Liberal War on Transparency, and how citizen journalists can use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to...
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Obama to Lead on Climate Change, but Only Through Back Door
Pat Benic/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom During his 2013 inaugural address, President Obama told Americans that the United States “will respond to the threat of climate change” and will take the lead for...
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Keystone XL—A Matter of First Importance
Reuters/TransCanada Corporation/Newscom Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman (R) sent a letter approving the rerouted Keystone XL pipeline to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the...
View ArticleCoal Exports: Comprehensive Environmental Review Could Set Dangerous Precedent
Anti-coal politicians want to use the environmental process to more comprehensively analyze the greenhouse gas impact on coal exports. This would not only reduce coal production in the U.S. but it...
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Court Strikes Down EPA Biofuel Mandate
Photo credit: Newscom The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot impose a mandate for a non-existent product and then punish companies for failing to use said non-existent product, the U.S. Court...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Get the Federal Government Out of the Natural Gas Business
In North Dakota, people have jobs. That state led the nation in job creation last year, and its unemployment rate is only 3.2 percent (compared to the national rate of 7.9 percent). Why? One word:...
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Obama Has NOT Doubled the Nation’s Fuel Economy
Photo credit: Newscom President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night was full of good intentions, bad policy, and suspect claims. He said, for example, that “We have doubled the distance our...
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Bankrupt Abound Solar to Bury Unused Solar Panels in Cement
Newscom Colorado-based Abound Solar has been ordered to remove and bury in cement thousands of leftover solar panels “deemed unsellable” by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment...
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Environmental Protection Agency: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI/Newscom The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to furlough all of its employees and shut down for three days this year to absorb sequestration’s spending...
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The EPA: An Impediment to Economic Recovery
ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI/Newscom The rapid pace and severity of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on the energy sector during the past four years illustrates an ongoing problem—the...
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EPA’s Jackson Leaves Legacy of Higher Costs, Less Consumer Choice
Mike Theiler/Pool/EPA/Newscom Lisa Jackson will retire from her position as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this month as the most prolific regulator of her class of Obama...
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The EPA: An Impediment to Economic Recovery
ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI/Newscom The rapid pace and severity of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on the energy sector during the past four years illustrates an ongoing problem—the...
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New EPA Regulations Mean Higher Gas Prices
Newscom It’s no secret that the White House, regardless of Administration, releases unpopular news on Friday afternoons. On the popular television drama West Wing, the fictional Bartlett Administration...
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$1.2 Billion in Cash Goes to Energy Projects, Despite Sequestration
Rainer Jensen/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom Despite a fiscal cliff and sequestration worries, more than $1.2 billion in cash payments for energy projects (in lieu of tax credits) have been issued by the...
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Energy Secretary Nominee Faces Tough Natural Gas Decision
Rick Friedman/Polaris/Newscom If confirmed as the next Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Dr. Ernest Moniz will take over an agency that has increasingly injected itself into making investment...
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The Outrageous Statements of Obama’s EPA Nominee
Olivier Douliery/MCT/Newscom Today the Senate held a confirmation hearing for Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Heritage has provided its own...
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With Climate Change Science Unsettled, a Carbon Tax is Even More Useless
Kurt Strazdins KRT/Newscom Reuters’s environment correspondent Alister Doyle provides even more fodder for why a carbon (energy) tax or the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of...
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Earth Day: People Are Our Most Precious Resource
Newscom Google is celebrating Earth Day with a doodle of sunny skies, mountain peaks, hills, and blue waters. Sure, it’s appropriate to celebrate this wonderful planet we call home. But Google—along...
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New Red Tape Rising Report: Regulation in Obama’s First Term
Congress and the White House have been focused for much of this year on the federal budget—rightfully so, given perennial deficits and unsustainable levels of U.S. debt. However, federal spending...
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Keystone XL and Natural Gas Provide Energy Trade Opportunities
Jim West/ZUMA Press/Newscom In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “If we continue to let our trade policy be dictated by special interests, then American workers will continue to be...
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