December 13, 2017 Era of federal ‘sue and settle’ deals is over, and the greens are freaked About 20 years ago, government agencies stopped collecting data on these settlements, so they could no longer report to Congress on the amount of…
December 2, 2017 The wealth-destroying insanity of modern environmentalism The irony and illogic of the Guardians’ nuisance lawsuit defied belief. A group ostensibly dedicated to protecting nature was attacking and disabling a company…
October 29, 2017 Enviros use regulations to criminalize ordinary agricultural activities Sometimes those mistakes may be embarrassing, like when EPA threatened Andy Johnson and his family with $20 million in fines based on an errant…
October 2, 2017 Will Trump dump pernicious Obama-era EPA regs? Mr. Duarte also has a nursery business near Modesto and employs 600 people every year. He has already paid over $2 million in legal…
September 13, 2017 PA miners furloughed after state environmental regulators stall permit The mining company was in the process of modifying its permit after state regulators invalidated some of its stream restoration procedures. A state environmental…
September 9, 2017 Why D.C. management of lands and resources is bad for the West This is not news to people in the West, whose communities are surrounded by federal lands, and whose natural resources are under the control…
September 7, 2017 Joe Robertson, elderly Vietnam vet convicted for ‘EPA crimes’ released from prison Robertson was released into his own custody to enter into a halfway house in Butte, Montana, with plans to later be admitted to the…
August 22, 2017 Coal mines helped improve West Virginia water supplies The Tribune reported the “crash of the coal mining industry in southern West Virginia has left hundreds of residents in charge of their own…
August 14, 2017 Obama’s EPA diverted $1.55 billion to ‘green energy’ using dubious settlements [paypal_donation_button] While the EPA has established a number of safeguards to ensure against impermissible usurpation of Congress’ appropriations power, these safeguards have failed to…
August 9, 2017 Western leaders applaud Interior’s rollback of Obama-era methane rule [paypal_donation_button] “[T]he BLM believes that the 2015 final rule unnecessarily burdens industry with compliance costs and information requirements that are duplicative of regulatory programs…
