April 1, 2018 EPA’s Pruitt scraps Obama era ‘secret science’ “EPA regulators and agency-funded researchers have become accustomed to producing unaccountable, dodgy science to advance a political agenda,” Steve Milloy, author of JunkScience.com and…
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…
October 17, 2017 EPA chief issues new directive to end abusive ‘sue and settle’ deals The EPA’s practice of handling lawsuits by using ‘consent decrees’ and ‘settlement agreements’ has violated norms of transparency and given outside groups–some of which…
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…
August 29, 2017 EPA Chief Pruitt demands science over activism, and enviros hate him for it Some activists want to ban virtually all pesticides. Although chlorpyrifos meets the EPA’s extremely stringent safety standards, two such groups nevertheless petitioned EPA to…
August 9, 2017 EPA ‘martyrs’ really just opportunists, already up for retirement [paypal_donation_button] Wall Street Journal Editorial Board EPA Resignation Facts The rest of the story behind those loud civil-servant protests. The media and federal unions…
July 20, 2017 Fired EPA staffers form ‘rogue’ anti-Trump support group Following eight years under Obama, where there were few constraints on the fatuousness of their policies, or the damage caused by regulatory assaults on…
July 6, 2017 WOTUS repeal one step to protect property owners from iron-fisted bureaucracies Though Johnson meticulously worked with the state of Wyoming to gather proper permits, the Environmental Protection Agency claimed he also needed a sign-off from…
June 24, 2017 New EPA chief drains swamp of advisors behind heavy-handed Obama climate regs The Trump administration is moving to revamp an EPA committee that conservatives believe rubber-stamped many of former President Barack Obama’s climate regulations. Chris White Daily…