“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 “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA,” wrote in the Wall Street Journal. Michael…
About 20 years ago, government agencies stopped collecting data on these settlements, so they could no longer report to Congress on the amount of money involved, or the groups to whom it was being paid. Long-time observers know it amounts…
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 are quite radical--significant power to affect federal policies. by Marjorie Haun Scott Pruitt, the new director…
Mr. Duarte also has a nursery business near Modesto and employs 600 people every year. He has already paid over $2 million in legal bills, but the restoration sought by the government would kill the business. Perhaps that was the…
The mining company was in the process of modifying its permit after state regulators invalidated some of its stream restoration procedures. A state environmental hearing board ruled that the DEP “erroneously” allowed mining in areas with improper stream-preservation systems in…
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 ban it in 2007. That was ironic because the agency had just completed a 15-year review…
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board EPA Resignation Facts The rest of the story behind those loud civil-servant protests. The media and federal unions are making a cause celebre out of federal scientists who have resigned and then denounced Trump Administration…
Following eight years under Obama, where there were few constraints on the fatuousness of their policies, or the damage caused by regulatory assaults on private property and individual rights, these little dictators are now looking for other thrones from which…
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 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Thus, a frowning federal bureaucracy threatened to charge the Johnson…
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 Caller The Trump administration is moving to revamp an EPA committee that conservatives believe rubber-stamped many of…