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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... ...
Research & Commentary: Tier 3 Standards for Gasoline
Heartland Research & Commentary - Taylor Smith Heartland InstituteThe 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... ...
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... ...
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... ...
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... ...
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... ...
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... ...
An EPA War on Coal?
Richard L. Gordon Cato InstituteThe 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... ...
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... ...
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... ...
Research & Commentary: Hydraulic Fracturing in Florida
Heartland Research & Commentary - Taylor Smith Heartland Institute... Gas Compact Commission, a multistate government agency, found more than 8,000 wells... explains why: “The shallow layers are protected from injected fluid by a number... cannot proceed if these layers of protection are not fully functional. Good oil... director for Michigan’s Department of Environmental... ...
Research & Commentary: Renewable Fuel Standard
Heartland Research & Commentary - Taylor Smith Heartland InstituteThe 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... ...
Greenie Lying Bastards
Ron Arnold... deduction and guaranteed anonymity. The anonymity protects donors from recipients eager for more... that the Tides Foundation, which funds environmental causes and does not publish donor... second administrator of the increasingly alarmist Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). All have career or financial... ...
Is It Time to Get Rid of the EPA?
Henry I. Miller... one of FDA’s siblings, the Environmental Protection Agency. Anti-Science at the EPA I... and anti-industry discards from other agencies, and that because it was supposed to protect Americans from bad things—polluted air... at EPA. The heads of the agency have ranged from the clueless to... necessary... ...
No Signs of Water Pollution from Arkansas Fracking, Feds Report
Bonner R. Cohen... poses a risk to groundwater. “When environmental activists talk about hydraulic fracturing, they... to have a clean bill of environmental health, as the USGS’s recent... a related development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in January that it... of fracking in the region... ...
Study: E15 Causes Engine Damage to Automobiles
Cheryl K. Chumley... nonprofit organization that directs engineering and environmental studies on interaction between automotive equipment... CRC called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rethink its approval of E15 in light of the study results. EPA admitted it had not reviewed the CRC study, but nevertheless... ...
364 Billion Ways the Government Wastes Your Money
Gary Baise... GAO claims there are nine federal agencies, including U.S. Department of Agriculture... of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, plus three tax activities, that have... more than 98%." EPA and other agencies now want to pursue 20 million... of duplication. Apparently one state... ...
Obama Chooses Energy Foe McCarthy to Lead EPA
James M. Taylor, J.D.... new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ‘Transform the Power Sector’ McCarthy is... argued at the 2011 Energy, Utility & Environment Conference (EUEC) in Phoenix, Arizona. She... higher than the value other federal agencies assign to lives saved or extended... vice president for the Science... ...
EPA Cuts 2012 Cellulosic Blending Target to Zero
Marlo Lewis... provide information on their compliance. The agency will submit refunds to companies that have submitted payments for 2012 cellulosic waiver credits." Lewis writes that the elimination of the "RFS cellulosic blending targets established by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) is long overdue."... ...
James Taylor: The future of energy and environment policy
James M. Taylor, J.D.James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News, talks with Jim Lakely about the future of energy and environment policy in a second term for... fracking revolution, green energy projects, the Environmental Protection... ...