by Jane Richey | Apr 8, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Fisker Automotive, a federally backed maker of plug-in hybrid cars, laid off 75 percent of its workers Friday as it struggles to stay afloat and find new capital, according to press accounts. “Our efforts to secure a strategic alliance or partnership are continuing in...
by Jane Richey | Apr 5, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Congressman Phil Roe: Last Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out sweeping new regulations to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline. According to EPA, these rules would be the equivalent of taking 33 million automobiles off the road. While...
by Jane Richey | Apr 5, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A Pittsburgh-area solar energy company that received more than $10 million as part of the federal stimulus is asking a federal judge to allow it to file bankruptcy. Ten former employees at the Flabeg Solar U.S. Corp plant have petitioned a federal judge for severance...
by Jane Richey | Apr 4, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
As part of a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Collins Inc. of Clinton, Iowa has agreed to a “re-lamping” of its facility with low-mercury fixtures at a projected cost of $76,952. The re-lamping will be a greater expense than the civil penalty...
by Jane Richey | Apr 3, 2013 | Agenda 21
If you want to know what a carbon tax on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would do to America you need only look at the destruction of industry and business in Australia, along with the soaring costs for energy use it imposes on anyone there. “The carbon tax is...
by Jane Richey | Mar 27, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Suntech, once the world’s largest solar panel maker, previously received a $2.1 million tax credit from the Obama Administration to open a plant in Arizona. Now, the plant is closing and its 43 jobs are being terminated. “Suntech’s problem was the same problem...
