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“Environmental Justice” $ub$umes Everything

Guest Blogger — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000

This document just released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency takes the cake.

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SCOTUS Will Hear Challenge to One of EPA’s Most Stringent Proposed Climate Regs

Guest Blogger — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000

If the Supreme Court takes up the case, its decision could ultimately end up being the second major ruling pertaining to the extent of EPA’s authority in the last several years.

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Automakers finally blast Biden EPA plan to hike fuel efficiency rules – Would ‘boost avg vehicle price by $3,000…with absolutely no environmental or fuel savings benefits’

Guest Blogger — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

“exceeds reason and will increase costs to the American consumer with absolutely no environmental or fuel savings benefits.”

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Electric Grid Reliability: Texas vs. EPA

Guest Blogger — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000

In the meantime, just the possibility that EPA will enact such sweeping regulations will slow investment in new power generation that all U.S. power grids need.

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WOTUS WIN!

Kip Hansen — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000

“In sum, we hold that the CWA [Clean Water Act] extends to only those “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right,” so that they are “indistinguishable” from those waters. ….. This holding compels reversal here. The wetlands on the Sacketts’ property are distinguishable from any possibly covered waters.”

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WOTUS Woes

Kip Hansen — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should have finally relinquished their claim made under the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rules claiming jurisdiction over “any low spot where water collects, including farm irrigation ditches and fields, ephemeral drainages, livestock watering ponds on private and public lands, as well as isolated wetlands.“

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EPA Carbon Rule Will Lead to ‘Significant Power Shortages’

David Middleton — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:00:00 +0000

"The EPA is overestimating how quickly technological advances may occur in “green” hydrogen... as well as in carbon capture and storage, or CCS"

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Comments From Supporters of EPA’s New Power Plant Rule

Guest Blogger — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 05:00:00 +0000

It’s the exact same bullshit projections cribbed from EPA’s own “fact sheet” and parroted back to them with no independent thought or research.

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Comments On The Insanity Of EPA’s New Power Plant Rule

Guest Blogger — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 21:00:00 +0000

These proposed methods to allow combustion power plants to continue to exist are not real and can never work. EPA intends to force the closure of all such electricity generation facilities.

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Biden EPA Appointee Under Ethics Scrutiny (for the least of his transgressions)

Guest Blogger — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0000

the allegation at issue there pales in comparison to that already reported on but, to date, left to sit without attention.

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Bureaucrats Completely Incapable of Making Reasonable Trade-Offs

Guest Blogger — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000

They’ve got a sole focus, and if that means destroying your lifestyle, they are only too glad to do it.

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At CHECC, We’re Down But Not Out!

Guest Blogger — Sun, 28 May 2023 01:11:39 +0000

We plan to fight on, likely through the en banc DC Circuit and the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUS KILLS WOTUS: Enormous Setback for Obama Era EPA Power Grab

Charles Rotter — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:00:08 +0000

Enormous setback for the fanatics at the EPA who would regulate ever puddle or ditch they could find.

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Biden EPA Unveils New CO2 Crackdown On Coal & Natural Gas Power Plants – Claim to achieve ‘climate and public health benefits’

Guest Blogger — Sat, 13 May 2023 21:00:00 +0000

...they are hellbent on doing everything in their power to regulate coal and gas-fueled power plants out of existence, no matter the cost to energy security and reliability,

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EPA’s CCS requirement is illegal; The agency blocked its Science Advisory Board from saying so 10 years ago

Guest Blogger — Sat, 13 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

From JunkScience Steve Milloy EPA proposed today that utilities stop burning coal and natural gas by 2040 unless power plants can be outfitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. The agency…

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Right, Washington Times, EPA’s Appliance Regulations Considerably ‘Lower Performance’

Guest Blogger — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

...the ramped-up regulations for appliances are forcing manufacturers to go backward...

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The Auto Industry in Jonestown

Guest Blogger — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Thus does EPA deviously announce its intention to force manufacturers to make, and consumers to buy, all or almost all electric vehicles.

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EPA to Propose First Controls on CO2 Emissions From Power Plants – ‘Will be 1st time fed gov’t has limited CO2 from existing power plants’

Guest Blogger — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Ignoring last June's SCOTUS decision in West Virgina v. EPA, the rogue Biden regime plans another assault on our electricity grid by essentially requiring CO2 capture and storage for fossil fuel plants.

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Oral Argument In CHECC v. EPA: The Issue Of Standing

Guest Blogger — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0000

How do you know that electricity prices are going to go up? Have you offered sufficient proof of that?

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Great Car Reset: Biden’s EPA to release strict new fed emissions standard to ‘move U.S. car market decisively toward electric vehicles’ – ‘Up to 2/3’ of cars sold mandated to be EV by 2032

Guest Blogger — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0000

...the only result is going to be shortages of cars and a completely altered used car market. You can look to Cuba to find out what it's like to have a raging used car market because that's what we're looking at here.

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