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EPA “Miners Struggle With a Federal Cave-In” by Daniel McFroarty [EPA regulations] 7-25-14
EPA – “What Is the EPA Hiding From the Public? 6-24-14
EPA’s Latest Threat to Economic Growth, by Jay Timmons [… new ozone standard …cost] 8-14-14
EPA. “Double Trouble Carbon Regulation.” [The D.C. Circuit will hear an importanrt challenge to EPA abuse.” 10-1-2014
EPA. “Let’s Find Out How Much ‘Clean Power’ the Feds Really Have.” By Brian H. Potts, et.al., [The EPA should ask for a court ruling before states and utilities spend billions in compliance costs.] 10-2-2014
EPA. “Professor Tribe Takes Obama to School.” [The liberal lion blasts the EPA’s climate rule as an illegal power grab.] 12-6-14
EPA. “Watch Out for That Puddle, Soon It Could Be Federally Regulated.” By M. Reed Hopper et. al. [The EPA wants to redefine ‘the waters of the United States’ to mean virtually any wet spot in the country. 12-8-14
EPA. LTE. “Prof. Tribe May Not Get Very Far on His EPA Brief.” 12-13-14
EPA. “The Clean Power Plan Is Unconstitutional.” By Laurence H. Tribe. [The EPA acts as though it has the legislative authority to re-engineer the nation’s electric generating system and power grid. It does not.] 12-23-14
EPA. “The EPA Annexes Sweden.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Volvo is challenging the U.S. agency’s authority to regulate diesel-engine pollution across borders.] 2-11-15
EPA. “ ‘Offensively Unapologetic’ at the EPA” [A judge finds the agency withheld documents and then lied about it.] 3-4-15
EPA. “Mercurial Regulators Making Fishy Calculations.” By Brian Potts. [On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a costly EPA rule limiting power-plant emissions.] 3-24-15
EPA. LTE. “New EPA Mercury Rules Make Sense.” 3-26-15
EPA. LTE. “New EPA Mercury Rules Are Inconsistent and Illogical.” 4-4-15
EPA. “The State Electricity Revolt.” [A promising way to resist Obama’s federal climate coercion.] 4-10-15
EPA. LTE. “States Should Pre-empt Federal Control of EPA’s CPP.” 4-30-15
EPA. “The Greens’ Back Door at the EPA.” By Kimberley A. strassel. [“…If the EPA’s Pebble action becomes a model for the agency, it would become the effective zoner of every piece of land in the country…”] 5-15-15
EPA. “The EPA’s Pebble Blame Game.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. […The EPA has a problem: its preemptive veto of the Pebble Mine, a proposed project in southwest Alaska…] 5-22-15
EPA. LTE. “The EPA is Right to be Careful About Pebble Mine Plan.” [by Dennis McLerran, EPA Region 10 Administrator, Seattle.] 5-22-15
EPA. “EPA’s Amphibious Attack.” [An expansive new rule lets Washington regulate any creek or pothole.] 5-28-15
EPA. “The EPA’s Fracking Miracle.” [Andrew Cuomo’s ban on drilling is exposed as a fraud.” 6-5-15
EPA. “The EPA’s ‘Clean Power’ Mess.” By Benjamin Zycher. [The plan will ensure that power plants operate like cars in stop-and-go traffic, cutting efficiency.] 6-8-15.
EPA. LTE. “Clean Water is Good but Bureaucratic Overreach Is Bad.” 6-8-15.
EPA. LTE. “Biofuels, the RFS Law and the EPA.” 6-13-15
EPA. LTE. “EPA Consulted Many to Develop Its Clean Power Plan.” 6-12-15
EPA. LTE. “There is Little Good Reason for New Truck Standards.” 6-25-15
EPA. “The Mercurial Court.” [The Supremes rebuke the EPA but decline to rein in its abuses.] 6-30-15
EPA. “Stopping EPA Uber Alles.” [Even when states win in court, they lose. Here is one legal remedy.] 7-7-15
EPA. LTE. “EPA is Fulfilling the Clean Air Act.” 7-15-15
EPA. LTE. “Questionable Data, Secret Science.” 7-21-15
EPA. “States Should Shun the EPA;s New Power Mandate.” By Hal Quinn and Peter Glaser. [The agency has failed to properly weigh the costs, even though the Supreme Court says it must.] 8-3-15
EPA. “Mine Busters at the EPA.” [Who you gonna call when the green police unleash a toxic river?] 8-12-15
EPA. “Obama’s Climate Plan and Poverty.” [The EPA’s new anti-carbon rule is full of redistribution to offset its harm to the poor.] 8-13-15
EPA. LTE. “EPA’s Plan: Little Gain for High Legal, Economic Cost.” 8-13-15
EPA. LTE. “Closer Look at the Likely Effects of the EPS’s Grid Plan.” 8-17-15
EPA. LTE. “The Perpetraors Should Pay for the EPA-Yellow River.” 8-19-15
EPA. “Why Is the EPA Cleaning Up Mines?” by Rhett Larson. 8-22-15
EPA. LTE. “EPA, Not Miners, Trashed the River.” 8-25-15
EPA. “The EPA’s Own Email Problem.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. 8-28-15.
EPA. “The EPA’s Next Big Economic Chokehold.” By Tony Cox. [Lowering ozone – from cars, trucks, factories and power plants – in the name of an imaginary health benefit.] 9-2-15
EPA. “The EPA’s Water Woes.” [What a toxic mine dump and a legal rebuke have in common.] 9-4-15
EPA. “Salvaging a Lesson From the Animas River Spill.” By Bill Wehrum. [The EPA employees at fault won’t face criminal charges. Neither should companies that make similar mistakes.] 9-10-15
EPA. LTE. “The EPA Helped Alaskans on Pebble.” 9-12-15
EPA. “The VW Emission Bug.” [Why would the company install a defeat device’ on its U.S. cars?] 9-24-15
EPA. “More Proof on Pebble.” [A new report takes apart the EPA’s veto of a mining project.] 10-6-15
EPA. LTE “Clearing the Air About Reagan and Ozone.” 10-9-15
EPA. LTE “EPA’s New Ozone Standard Is Science-Based.” 10-9-15
EPA. “The EPA’s Water Rule Is Plugged.” [A federal court enjoins the agency’s ‘whirlwind of confusion.’] 10-10-15
EPA. “The EPA Deserves a Stay.” [The agency tries to run out the clock on its ‘Clean Power’ diktat.] 10-30-15
EPA. LTE. “The Government Is Ready to Track Radiation.” 11-2-15
EPA. LTE. “ Saving Our Planet and Executive Overreach.” 11-6-15
EPA. “The EPA’s Secret Staff.” [Emails show the agency took dictation from green lobbies in possible violation of the law.] 12-19-15
EPA. “Brushing Back a Lawless EPA.” [Congress crimps its budget and forces two Obama vetoes.] 12-23-15
EPA. LTE. “EPA Private Emails Violate Advisory Committee Act.” 12-28-15
EPA. LTE. “The EPA Cleaned Up Our River, Created Jobs.” 1-6-16
EPA. “The EPA’s Politics in the Raw.” By A.J. Kritikos. [“…The way to take politics out of administrative agencies is simple; Take from them the power to make policy.”] 1-14-16EPA. “An Animas River Accounting.” [“…New evidence suggest the government isn’t coming clean about what happened….”] 2-17-16
EPA. “Downstream From a Slippery EPA.” By Ryan Flynn. [In the aftermath of the Gold King spill, the agency is holding itself to a lower standard than polluters.]. 3-1-16
EPA. LTE. “EPA Holds Everyone but itself Accountable.” 3-8-16
EPA. “EPA Is Actively Responding to Mine Spills.” 3-10-16
EPA. LTE. “Whom Did the EPA Fire Because of Massive Spill?” 3-17-16
EPA. “The EPA’s Flint Abdication.” [The agency tries to rewrite its history in the lead-water debacle.] 3-18-16
EPA. LTE. “Finger=Pointing Over Flint’s Water Debacle Doesn’t Help.” 3-22-16.
EPA. LTE. “Getting Our Environmental Regulation Right.” 5-6-16
EPA. LTE. “It’s Time to Start Hoarding Before the TSCA Kicks In.” 6-16-16
EPA. “The VW-Tesla Redistribution.” [The feds turn an emissions settlement into a green payoff.] 7-1-16
EPA. “Trump Can Ax the Clean Power Plan by Executive Order.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grosman. [The aggressive legal positions in Obama’s most controversial rules makes them easier to rescind.] 11-21-16
EPA. “The Tax Man Demands a Rain Check – Er … Stormwater Fee.” [An EPA mandate to reduce runoff is inspiring a new levy on precipitation in my Virginia town.] 11-26-16
EPA. “The EPA’s Auto Outsourcing Act.” [The agency breaks the law to rush out new fuel mileage mandates.] 12-3-16
EPA. “A Lawyer for a Lawless EPA.” [Scott Pruitt can restore respect for the states in environmental policy.] 12-8-16
EPA. “Trump’s Federalist Revival.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The president-elect’s EPA pick will restore balance to the federal-state relationship.] 12-9-16
EPA. “The EPA’s Science Deniers.” [The agency changes its view on fracking and water without evidence.] 12-19-16
EPA. “Scott Pruitt’s Chick-fil-EPA.” [Allow us to clean up the facts about liberal tales of chicken waste.] 1-18-17
EPA. “A Veto for Scott Pruitt.” [Reversing the lawless Pebble Mine veto would end a good message.] 1-24-17
EPA. “A Back-To-Basics Agenda for the EPA.” (The Weekend Interview with Scott Pruitt by Kimberley A. Strassel) [The new administrator plans to follow his statutory mandate – clean air and water – and to respect states’ rights.] 2-18-17
EPA. “Trump’s Clean Watershed.” [He orders the EPA to review Obama’s illegal waterways regulation.] 3-1-17
EPA. Climate Change. “Trump’s Next Step on Climate Change.” By Paul H. Tice. [Reconsider the EPA’s labeling of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, based on now-outdated science.] 3-29-17
EPA. “Icahn’t Believe It’s an Ethics Conflict.” [Democrats lambaste Carl Icahn for agreeing with them.] 4-1-17 [Re: EPA, “RINs” prices, ethanol, energy policy]
EPA. LTE. “Maybe it’s Time to Review the EPA’s Finding.” 4-27-17
EPA. “The Pebble Mine Victory.” [EPA settles a lawless, pre-emptive veto of an Alaska project.] 5-17-17
EPA. “Board of Scientific Conformity.” [Join an EPA advisory panel and get an EPA grant.] 5-23-17
EPA. “Anatomy of a Deep State.” By Kimberley A. Stassel. [The EPA’s ‘Science Integrity Official’ is plotting to undermine Trump’s agenda.] 5-26-17
EPA. “Pruitt’s Clean Water Break.” [Obama’s legacy of rule by decree is rapidly being undone.] 7-3-17
EPA. “The D.C. Circuit vs. Deregulation.” [Two judges day the EPA can’t stay its own rule pending review.] 7-17-17
EPA. “EPA Resignation Facts.” [The rest of the story behind those loud civil-servant protests.] 8-8-17
EPA. “Stopping ue and Settle.” [The EPA moves to limit extortion by environmental lawsuit.] 10-19-17
EPA. “Keeping Scott Pruitt Safe.” [“…Mr. Pruitt has received more than five times as many threats as his predecessor…”] 11-2-17
EPA. “EPA Bureaucrats Go Rogue on ‘glider Truck’ Emissions.” By Steve Milloy. [If you put a rebuilt engine in a fresh chassis, does it become a ‘new’ vehicle subject to tighter rules?] 1-13-18
EPA. “Pruitt’s Bad Pebble Precedent.” [The Trump EPA ratifies a pre-emptive Obama veto on projects.] (“…no position on the merits of the Pebble mine, but regulatory due process matters. We thought Mr. Pruitt believed in it too.) 1-31-2018
EPA. “You RIN some, You Lose Some.” [Flawed ethanol credits bankrupt a refinery and put steel jobs at risk.] 3-13-18
EPA. “The EPA Cleans Up Its Science.” [Now Congress should act to lock in place data transparency.] 3-27-18
EPA. “Trump’s Pruitt Test.” [The President needs to show some loyalty to his leading reformer.] 4-6-18
EPA. “Cost-Benefit Reform at the EPA.” [Under Obama, the EPA juked the numbers to justify costly regulation.] 6-7-18
EPA. “Pruitt Leaves a Proud Legacy at the EPA.” By George Meloan. [His political offense wasn’t ethics but his forthright challenge to the myth of renewable energy.] 7-12-18
EPA. “Not the climate Apocalypse.” [The EPA’s power rule won’t save coal and won’t poison the planet.] 8-22-18
EPA. Regulation. “Trump’s Regulatory Dredging.” [A new EPA rule would limit regulation to ‘navigable’ waters.] 12-12-18
EPA. “A Navy Veteran Went to Prison for Digging Ponds in the Mountains.” By Ethan Blevins. [The Supreme Court can remedy the injustice done by the EPA’s unclear ‘navigable waters’ rule.] 4-27-19
EPA. “Explaining the Methane Rule Panic.” [When Big Oil agrees with the green lobby, inspect the details.] 8-31-19
EPA. “A Scientific Roundup.” [The EPA intervenes against California’s rogue cancer regulation.] 9-4-19
EPA. “Why We’re Ending the EPA’s Reliance on Secret Science.” By Andrew Wheeler. [The agency has long made decisions without allowing the public to scrutinize our underlying data.] 1-5-21
EPA. “An Anti-Development Water Rule.” [Biden’s EPA is back with a rule that won’t help build infrastructure.] 6-12-21
EPA. “Breaking norms at the Biden EPA.” [The purge of advisory boards is now going to federal court.] 12-29-21
EPA. “The EPA’s Mileage Standards Are a Stealth Electric-Vehicle Mandate.” By Jonathan Lesser. [How else can auto makers meet the requirement of a 55 mpg fleetwide average by model year 2026?] 12-29-21
EPA. “The Canary in the Pebble Mine.” [A textbook example of why the U.S. is vulnerable to China.] 5-31-22
EPA. “The EPA’s Supply-chain Disruption.” By Andy Rose. [A ban on cylinders for air-conditioning coolant will cost U.S. jobs and help China.] 6-29-22
EPA. “Behind Biden’s EPA Power Grab.” By Mario Loyola and Eric Groten. [A pen and phone are no substitute for a statute duly passed by Congress.] 7-1-22
EPA. “The EPA Threatens to Turn Out the Lights.” By Wm. S. Scherman. [Its proposed regulation would close power plants, destabilize the energy grid and end reliable electricity.] 5-19-23
EPA. “Fight Fire With Fire (If EPA Allows).” By Shawn Regan. [Federal pollution laws create perverse incentives that subject Americans to more hazardous smoke.] 6-23-23
EPA. “The EPA Defies the Supreme Court.” By Chris Horner. [The agency imposes a ‘suite’ of climate policies and doesn’t even try to hide its own lawlessness.] 8-18-23
EPA. “Is Disparate-Impact Theory Constitutional?” by Graham. Hillard. [Louisiana’s case against the EPA could eventually reduce the number of jobs requiring college degrees.] 8-24-23
EPA. “EPA Pulls Back a Pesticide Overreach.” By Sierra Dawn McClain. 2-2-24
EPA. “EPA’s Climate Deception Won’t Stand in Court.” By Chris Horner. [If the major-questions doctrine doesn’t kill it, the ‘rule against pretext’ will.] 5-2-24