by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforced nearly $500,000 in fines and mandatory “environmental projects” on a school bus contractor for “excessive idling,” and as part of its anti-idling campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school buses waiting to pick...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Last week, “an unelected group of people” over at the Environmental Protection Agency revised our national energy policy, approving a new gasoline blend with up to 15% ethanol, known as E15, which may be available in pumps this summer. Currently, most...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Green groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force completion of long-planned national regulations to govern disposal of so-called coal ash, a waste product from power plants. “In the absence of national standards requiring safe disposal, coal ash has...
by Jane Richey | Apr 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The notion that President Obama is trying to fire up his “base,” as he prepares for a re-election campaign, raises the question of what constitutes his base. It is becoming increasingly clear that the “workers” he is supposedly concerned about are going to be...
by Jane Richey | Mar 31, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed greenhouse gas rule shows a lack of understanding of the country’s energy concerns. In addition to ending the use of coal as a power source in the U.S., Tom Borelli of The National Center for Public Policy...
