Brewery Makes New Craft Beer For EPA After Environmental Disaster
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) critics can drown their sorrows with a new craft beer that grew out of an agency-caused environmental disaster. An EPA crew penetrated Colorado’s Gold King Mine in August, 2015, which flooded the Animas River with three million gallons of toxic waste. The sludge dyed the water a murky yellow-orange color. Golden […]
More job-killing rules from the EPA
Social cost of methane regulations will further constrain energy production, cure for no benefit By Paul Driessen Having already done yeoman’s work stifling economic growth and job creation, President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is doubling down again. The United States created a paltry 38,000 new jobs in May: one for every 8,000 Americans. Its labor […]
CA rejects VW recall plan
By James Poulos . Thanks to California regulators, Volkswagen hasn’t yet found a way out of worldwide trouble. Federal agencies have flexed their muscles in tandem. “U.S. regulators rejected Volkswagen AG’s plan for recalling nearly 500,000 diesel-powered cars,” as the Wall Street Journal noted. “The Environmental Protection Agency, which is working with California regulators on the VW fraud, had already […]
EPA has released their regulatory nuclear bomb—The Clean Water Rule
By Debra Tash When the Clean Water Act passed in 1972 did Congress intend to give a federal agency carte blanche regulatory power? Keep in mind that kind of regulatory power is in effect law making. No other federal body has the constitutional authority to make law except Congress. However that is exactly what […]
EPA Moves to Access Your Wallet–Wage Garnishment without a Court Order
Editor’s Note: This is from Citizens Alliance for Property Rights CAPR, a grassroots group based in the state of Washington. This latest move by the Environmental Protection Agency is alarming. It would allow a government agency to directly garnish your wages without a court order. It leaves you, the citizen, without redress against a non-accountable […]
Partial Supreme Court victory over EPA’s over-reaching regulatory powers
Today, in the case Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, the Supreme Court held that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act in some ways when it limited carbon dioxide emissions from some stationary sources. Pacific Legal Foundation submitted a friend of the court brief opposing the EPA’s regulatory overreach. Here’s our statement […]
EPA’s “clarification” only confirms they are making a grab for water rights
Steve Neugebauer is the principal hydrogeologist, engineering geologist for SNR Company out of Duvall Washington. Mr. Neugebauer works both in the states of Washington and California and is an expert in his field. These are his comments on the latest press release from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) attempt to clarify their position on what […]
Proposed Expansion of Water Authority by EPA
WOULD EXTEND FEDERAL CONTROL TO VIRTUALLY ALL U.S. LANDS WATERS OF THE U.S. There is a proposal that redefines federal authority over the water–and thus the lands–of the United States. The impact is best illustrated by the maps below. The Clean Water Act authority shown in the first map would be extended to the proposed Clean Water Restoration […]
