The War On Bees?
One of the problems with policy positions is that, well, sometimes the knowledge that you need to figure out what the heck is really going on is kind of obscure. Case in point: a lawsuit going on...
View ArticleEPA confesses to handing out farmers’ personal information to activist-lawyers.
Executive summary (H/T: AoSHQ): the EPA just admitted that, yeah, it gave out a bunch of personal information about farmers and ranchers – including phone numbers, email addresses, regular addresses,...
View ArticleTweet of the Day, Boehner Is Absolutely Right On This EPA Regulation Nonsense...
Sometimes you just simply have to spell it out in words with as few syllables as possible: .@SpeakerBoehner on new EPA rules: "The president’s plan is nuts, there’s really no more succinct way to...
View ArticleThe UMWA discovers that supporting Democrats got them two things.
Jack, and… well, this is a family website. Some labor unions, groups generally considered loyally Democratic, rebelled on Monday after the EPA released its new regulations, which studies have suggested...
View ArticleApostate Louisiana singled out for EPA’s punishment.
The last sentence in the excerpt from this article (‘Despite low coal use, La. must reduce CO2 by 40%’) is inaccurate. When the Obama administration announced its new plan to cut carbon dioxide from...
View ArticleThe EPA… has had some convenient hard drive crashes, too.
Uh-huh. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the IRS share a problem: officials say they cannot provide the emails a congressional committee has requested because an employee’s hard drive...
View ArticleReminder: there are actually more Supreme Court decisions tomorrow.
And if Scalia writes the EPA decision (there is a remarkable amount of analysis out there trying to figure out who writes which Supreme Court decisions*)… well. They may have to end up encasing it in...
View ArticleAnd we end what was a disappointing Supreme Court term…
…with a win on the EPA, at least. A bit of a mild win, but at least the scoreboard isn’t empty. The Supreme Court overturned the Obama administration’s landmark air quality rule on Monday, ruling the...
View ArticleSo, it turns out that that EPA ecological disaster hit the Navajos.
Of course it did. The EPA worries about coastal urban liberals, first and foremost. Native American tribes? Not so much – well, not until EPA incompetence turns a river a color that I normally...
View ArticleFederal judge blocks administration’s ‘Clean Water Rule’ waterways power-grab.
It’s entertaining to see how ABC portrayed this, if your definition of ‘entertaining’ includes ‘being presented with obnoxiously slanted material:’ U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson of North Dakota...
View ArticleBoth Volkswagen and the EPA have regulatory woes.
So, the Volkswagen scandal, in a nutshell: the company rigged its diesel cars sold in America to produce one set of nitrogen oxide emissions when tested, and another set everywhere else. This allowed...
View ArticleBreaking: Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals puts a NATIONAL stay on Obama’s EPA...
OK, here’s the background. Once upon a time, the Obama administration decided to implement a ruling – without the input of Congress, mind you – that defined ““waters of the U.S.” to include virtually...
View ArticleIf you are an industrialist who contributed to Democrats… [UPDATED]
…here is your reward: WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people’s health and must be regulated, signaling that the Obama administration is...
View Article#rsrh This Reason.tv EPA agitprop video won’t win…
…more’s the freaking pity: Because it’s damned accurate. More Reason.tv offerings here.
View ArticleEPA head to fundraise for DSCC while oil spreads.
Eating breakfast. Priorities, folks: priorities. Apparently Lisa Jackson figures that if Interior Dept CoS Tom Strickland could go white-water rafting while the oil spread, she can go raise money for...
View ArticleEPA’s Lisa Jackson admits responsibility to Gulf…
…by belatedly canceling a Democratic fundraising appearance: Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson has canceled her appearance at a Democrat fundraiser hours after Politico...
View Article#rsrh Lisa Heinzerling forced out of EPA?
Well, it’s not like what Donald Rumsfeld leaving SecDef after 2006 was for the Left, but watching a hard Greenie like Lisa Heinzerling leave her position in the wake of the Great Shellacking is pretty...
View ArticleBanning Abortion the EPA way!
Thomas Sowell has an article out today about the latest incidence of mission creep from the EPA. To summarize: the EPA has wide discretion when it comes to oil spills. Milk contains oil. Therefore,...
View ArticleEPA orders NYC around on Yonkers reservoir.
Today in the Wall Street Journal we have a fairly caustic editorial about the EPA and its determination to make the city of New York pay for a 1.6 billion dollar cover for a Yonkers water reservoir,...
View Article#rsrh House Natural Resources Committee orders special briefcases*.
Well now. House panel votes to issue subpoenas to administration officials involved in doctoring a report on the Gulf oil spill to justify a moratorium and in squelching another that concludes EPA...
View Article#rsrh Is YouTube participating in a coverup? …wonders Senator Jim Inhofe.
Background here: essentially, Inhofe’s staff put up a very embarrassing video of an EPA employee gloating about ‘crucifying’ (i.e., making examples of) random individuals and companies in order to...
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Electoral implications of the Obama Administration’s War on Coal.
Will this be the 2012 election map? If the Obama administration keeps up their War on Coal (literally: they consider coal more dangerous than terrorism), quite possibly. And it may be at least...
View ArticleLisa Jackson forced out of EPA.
Ostensible reason: [Lisa] Jackson, 50, a chemical engineer by training and a mom of two teenagers, offered no reason for her resignation other than saying she’s ready for “new challenges, time with my...
View ArticleReport: EPA head Lisa Jackson resigned in a huff over Keystone Pipeline.
Very interesting, if this NY Post report is true: EPA chief Lisa Jackson suddenly resigned last week because she was convinced that President Obama is planning to green-light the controversial Keystone...
View ArticleSome update links on Lisa Jackson.
Some links on the Lisa Jackson / Richard Windsor sudden-retirement “thing.” Watts Up With That?: U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) made the following statement today after the outgoing U.S....
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