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Senators Introduce NEPA Certainty Act

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Three U.S. senators just introduced new legislation concerning national environmental policy.  It’s designed, according to the description found on page one of the bill, “To prohibit the use of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to document, predict, or mitigate the climate effects of specific Federal actions.” I found out about it via this [...]

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Members of Congress Should Refund Taxpayers

February 13th, 2009 · No Comments

After reading this morning that the so-called “Economic Stimulus Package” has now ballooned to a whopping 1,071 pages and is, according to one U.S. senator cited in a Cybercast News Service report, too long for any members of the U.S. Senate to read before it comes up for a vote today, I have an idea. [...]

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Senate Democrats Oppose Energy Independence (Updated)

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation that will further hinder our nation’s ability to become energy independent (i.e., depend less upon foreign sources of oil and natural gas) is one step closer to becoming law. There are at least a couple of provisions — and perhaps more — in the just-passed Omnibus [...]

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