Barely two years after I shared news about Barack Obama saying he would take steps to effectively “bankrupt the coal industry,” it appears now-President Obama is using the EPA to help fulfill his promise. According to an article published today in the St. Louis Business Journal, the EPA has sued Ameren Missouri for allegedly failing [...]
EPA Suit Against Utility Helps Fulfill Obama Pledge
January 12th, 2011 · No Comments
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Even Yellowstone National Park Can’t Pass New Environmental Standards Proposed by EPA
November 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Even Yellowstone National Park won’t be able to meet clean air standards in new EPA proposals. But that’s not all, according to folks in the energy industry. The video below, from the Energy Tomorrow Blog, offers details worth sharing about clean air, ethanol in gasoline and more. CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., and [...]
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Oil and Natural Gas Group Files Suit Against EPA (Update)
November 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Three months ago, I warned about Obama’s EPA Blending Politics and Science. One month ago, I reported on an EPA decision that could do more harm than good. Today, I’m backed up by the folks at the American Petroleum Institute, a group that represents more than 400 oil and natural gas companies. According to a [...]
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Ethanol Decision Could Do More Harm Than Good
October 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Two months ago, I warned you about President Barack Obama’s EPA blending politics and science. Now, according to an EPA news release issued Wednesday, the “blending” process appears to be complete: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today waived a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10 percent ethanol for model year 2007 [...]
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Obama’s EPA Blending Politics and Science
August 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments
President Barack Obama used the occasion of his late-April visit to the POET Energy ethanol plant near Macon, Mo., to tout cellulosic ethanol as a viable alternative fuel that will generate tens of thousands of jobs. That visit prompted me to ask the question, Does Obama Plan to Soak Taxpayers in Ethanol? Now, fast forward [...]
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Report Labels Obama’s Response to Spill ‘Failure’
August 5th, 2010 · No Comments
Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, released a report today titled, “Failure of Leadership: President Obama and the Flawed Federal Response to the BP Disaster.” The report concludes that “President Obama and Administration officials failed in several instances to remove regulatory and bureaucratic impediments and [...]
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Oil Industry Officials Miffed at Defeat of Murkowski
June 10th, 2010 · No Comments
In a statement this afternoon, officials at the American Petroleum Institute expressed disappointment with the Senate’s defeat of the Murkowski resolution: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should not move forward with regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. The Clean Air Act was never intended, nor should it be used, to address climate change. It was designed [...]
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