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Jun 17, 2013

A Don’t-Miss Science Conference July 13-14

Jay Lehr, Ph.D.

... conceived programs within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Gordon Claycomb, a pilot and aerospace... explain flaws in power generation from environmental activists’ preferred sources that result in... great book Merchants of Fear: Radical Environmentalism and the Cult of Anti-Humanism. Economist... ...

Jun 17, 2013

Research & Commentary: Hydraulic Fracturing in California

Heartland Research & Commentary - Taylor Smith Heartland Institute

... and direct the California Natural Resources Agency to commission a study on the environmental repercussions of hydraulic fracturing. Below California... Gas Compact Commission, a multistate government agency, shows more than 15,000 wells... explains why: “The shallow layers are protected from injected fluid... ...

Jun 16, 2013

California Assembly Rejects Fracking Ban

James M. Taylor, J.D.

... gas fracking sites in Arkansas. As Environment & Climate News recently reported, the U... Jackson, who led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the first four years of... Ph.D. in groundwater hydrology, told Environment & Climate News (which is published by... How many decades of a spotless... ...

Jun 14, 2013

EPA Continues Imposing Costly and Unnecessary New Restrictions

Paul Driessen

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of... which will bring few health or environmental benefits but will impose high economic... layer (or tier) of rules the agency says will clean the nation’s... to 10 ppm, even though the agency’s own models demonstrate... ...

Jun 12, 2013

EPA Issues New Pebble Mine Assessment

Bonner R. Cohen

... widely criticized draft assessment of the environmental impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in May released a revised analysis... proposal to state and federal permitting agencies, EPA in May 2012 issued a... populations—and the various types of... ...

Jun 11, 2013

Attorneys General Warn EPA over ‘Sue and Settle’ Fracking Regulations

Bonner R. Cohen

... six northeastern states could give the Environmental Protection Agency cover to regulate hydraulic fracturing at... have sent a letter to the agency upholding state primacy in overseeing fracking... lawsuit that could lead to the agency’s expanding its regulatory power over... In typical sue-and-settle... ...

Jun 6, 2013

EPA Hands Over Documents to Advance McCarthy Nomination

Cheryl K. Chumley

... choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy. Sen. David Vitter (R... the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from having the... the other Republican senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee attended May... questions, her scandalous tenure... ...

May 30, 2013

The Leaflet - Make Us Your New Legislative Aide!

The Leaflet - Robin Knox

... stated goal is to create an agency that bases its funding decisions on... Letter: Illinois Should Embrace Fracking Energy & Environment In an op-ed for the... State Journal-Register, Illinois’ capital city newspaper, prominent environmental activist and Illinois native Sandra Steingraber... that Republicans... ...

Apr 23, 2013

Colorado House Considers More Renewable Power Mandates

James M. Taylor, J.D.

... to come. Similarly, there is no environmental case for renewable power, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports natural gas power reduces emissions... in large part to advances in environmental technologies related to coal power. Since Colorado passed its renewable power mandate in 2007... ...

Apr 22, 2013

States Respond to Common Core Science Standards

Joy Pullmann

... a nonprofit that promotes free-market environmental stewardship. “If you start inculcating these... Achieve worked with approximately 13 federal agencies, including NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Department of the... S. Global Change Research Program. “Federal agencies are... ...

Apr 22, 2013

Research & Commentary: Tier 3 Standards for Gasoline

Heartland Research & Commentary - Taylor Smith Heartland Institute

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new rule... and will have a “very small” environmental benefit. The costs to refineries may... regulations to gasoline, especially for negligible environmental and health benefits, given the significant... otaq/tier3.htm The U.S. Environmental... ...

Apr 12, 2013

17 States Join New Clean Air Association

Alyssa Carducci

... run National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA). The states formed the new... association, the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies (AAPCA), in response to what they... the United States,” Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Commissioner Carlos Rubinstein said in... include: • create a technical... ...

Apr 9, 2013

Texas Commission Approves Coal Mine for Mexican Power Plants

Cheryl K. Chumley, Karen Dove

... of coal into Mexico. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency restrictions on coal power make Mexico... of the Dos Republicas Coal Partnership. Environmental Issues Vetted Critics say transporting the coal to Mexico will not solve environmental problems. They argue pollutants will cross... testimony and... ...

Mar 28, 2013

The Leaflet - Will Your State Benefit From Medicaid Expansion?

The Leaflet - Robin Knox Heartland Institute

... Medicaid expansion, hydraulic fracturing in Florida, protecting student data, Illinois pension reform, yet... Research & Commentary: Hydraulic Fracturing in Florida Environment Heartland Policy Analyst Taylor Smith examines... Gas Compact Commission, a multistate government agency, found more than 8,000 wells... Ed: States... ...

Mar 28, 2013

The Simplicity of Sound Money

Patrick Barron

... Can Understand In a sound money environment, on the other hand, there is... or governments? In a sound money environment, they are the same. Individuals earn... open market. In a sound money environment, there is a limit to the... monetary theory in a sound money environment. The national currency... ...

Mar 26, 2013

An EPA War on Coal?

Richard L. Gordon Cato Institute

The minimum complaint with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is that defects in environmental legislation denounced by economists for decades continue to produce bad results. Environmental statutes set impossibly ambitious pollution standards. The resulting policies are expensive to implement. Those... ...

Mar 22, 2013

The Clean Air Act as an Obstacle to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Anticipated Attempt to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Power Plants

William J. Haun

... legal problems that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from using the Clean Air Act (CAA)--the awkward basis for current greenhouse gas regulation--to regulate emissions standards from "stationary sources" of energy. Nevertheless, President Obama has asserted that the needs in this area are great... ...

Mar 21, 2013

James Taylor Testifies on Ohio Renewable Mandates

James M. Taylor, J.D.

... renewable power. According the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, natural gas power reduces emissions of the Six Principal Pollutants by 90 percent versus coal power. Natural gas is essentially an emissions-free power source. Forcing expensive renewable power upon Ohio consumers will have devastating consequences... ...

Mar 19, 2013

James Taylor Testifies on Ohio Renewable Mandates

Testimony - James M. Taylor, J.D.

... renewable power. According the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, natural gas power reduces emissions of the Six Principal Pollutants by 90 percent versus coal power. Natural gas is essentially an emissions-free power source. Forcing expensive renewable power upon Ohio consumers will have devastating... ...

Mar 18, 2013

Research & Commentary: Renewable Fuel Standard

Heartland Research & Commentary - Taylor Smith Heartland Institute

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), created... a report evaluating the economic and environmental effects of the renewable fuel standard... otaq/fuels/renewablefuels/ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) explains the renewable fuel standard... this... ...

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