by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of the Wind River tribes — after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, undoing a 1905 law...
by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that lifting the ban on federal oil drilling in certain areas could increase U.S. petroleum reserves by 30 percent, including an estimated 8 billion barrels of oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge...
by Jane Richey | Jun 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Interior Department’s lease sales this week in the Central Gulf of Mexico received the highest bids to explore for oil and gas there in at least three decades. This result seemed to surprise Secretary of Interior Salazar. But it should not come as a shock. Under...
by Jane Richey | Apr 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The environmental left views the incredible rebirth of the American fossil fuel industry, wrought by unconventional methods (fracking and horizontal drilling), with alarm and disgust. The idea that the United States could easily fulfill all of its energy needs by...
by Jane Richey | Mar 31, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Richard Terrell’s cartoon (more a picture of reality) on March 25, 2012 about the maze of regulations thrown up by the Departments of Interior (DOI) and Energy (DOE), as well as by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), really describes the country in which...