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CFACT Says Offshore Wind Violates Clean Air and Clean Water Acts
Opinion -At this point CFACT is merely raising the question, why isn’t the Clean Water Act employed in offshore wind industrialization? -
Trump Administration Offers Clean Water Act Reforms
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has offered a series of regulatory reforms to the 1972 Clean Water Act, to protect states’ legitimate authority over land and water within their borders and to protect property rights. -
Circuit Court Overturns Montana Clean Water Act Conviction
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal court vacated the conviction of a property owner for violations of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. -
Activists ‘Hijack’ Clean Water Act to Block Energy Projects
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Environmental activists are encouraging states to use their water quality review authority to delay or block new energy infrastructure projects. -
Research & Commentary: The Clean Water Act
Publication -Research and Commentaries -After creating the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Congress passed numerous landmark environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act (CWA), which achieved a bipartisan majority in 1972. -
EPA Attempts to Grab More Power Under the Clean Water Act
Opinion -A long-simmering dispute over which bodies of water the U.S. -
St. George, Utah Prevails in Clean Water Act Dispute with Army Corps
Opinion -The resort town of St. George, Utah has won a long-running battle to gain approval for an airport on a former drag-racing strip 20 miles outside of town. -
New Polls: Majority of Americans Oppose Expansion of Clean Water Act
Opinion -Most Americans oppose a proposal to expand the Clean Water Act, according to a new nationwide survey released by the National Center for Public Policy Research. -
House Bill Aims to Circumvent Supreme Court on Clean Water Act
Opinion -Legislation designed to extend the national government's power over isolated local bodies of water is being pushed by environmental activist groups in the weeks leading up to the 2007-2008 U.S. House of Representatives session, which begins in September. -
EPA Reexamines Clean Water Act
Opinion -Responding to a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency overstepped their bounds in enforcing the Clean Water Act, EPA has gathered and is now evaluating public comments regarding the scope of the -
Farmer challenges EPA authority under Clean Water Act
Opinion -California farmers Guido and Betty Pronsolino have filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the agency overstepped its authority when it denied the family a chance to harvest timber from its farm. -
Clean Water Action Plan: a First Step Toward Land Use Control?
Opinion -To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Clean Water Act's passage, the Clinton-Gore administration released its Clean Water Action Plan (CWAP), aimed at bringing together under a single umbrella a wide range of federal environment initiatives. -
Local Officials Sue EPA, Other Federal Agencies for Clean Water Act Violations
Opinion -Charging the federal government with violating numerous laws in the creation and implementation of the 1998 Clean Water Action Plan, the Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts (WACD) filed suit against the U.S. -
Expert Comment: Clean Water Restoration Act Gives Federal Government Too Much Power
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois - April 9, 2008) The U.S. -
Research & Commentary: New Study Highlights Significant Impact of Shale Boom, Fracking Revolution in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A study from researchers at Miami University in Ohio—recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Economics—provides new evidence that the hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) revolution over the last 18 years has had a significant impact on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. The researchers found that between 2007 and […] -
Small Modular Reactors Will Benefit Developing Economies
Opinion -Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) hold the potential to revolutionize the clean electricity landscape by providing scalable and flexible solutions across both the developed and the developing world. -
Research & Commentary: Report Details the Costs, Limitations, and Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A new report from the Institute for Energy Research (IER) details the costs of electric vehicles (EVs), the limitations to electric vehicle adoption, and the myths surrounding electric vehicle policy. In When Government Chooses Your Car, IER finds that the average price of EVs is 42 percent higher than traditional, internal combustion engine-powered (ICE) vehicles. […] -
“Cumulative Impact” Should Work Both Ways
Opinion -Maybe before issuing any new rules, federal officials ought to be required to account for their cumulative impact. -
Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters Off Our Coasts
Opinion -Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements. Some 90,000 barrels polluted ocean waters and yet, when I was scuba diving beneath it two decades later, the same production platform support structure once again hosted a magnificent ecosystem with millions of anemones, mussels, starfish, crabs and […] -
Climate Change Weekly #506: Climate at a Glance Videos: Climate Fact Checks for Youths
Opinion -Young people don’t get their information through traditional news outlets. They get their information in byte-sized chunks. -
Beware of Climate Activists Cosplaying as ‘Conservatives’
Opinion -Most conservatives realize that climate change is not a significant threat and heavy government intervention, in whatever form it takes, is not a conservative policy prescription. -
Innovating for a Water-starved Planet
Opinion -Perhaps instead of spending countless trillion of dollars trying to replace fossil fuels with wind, solar and battery technologies, we should focus on adapting to whatever climates we live in or encounter -- especially since China is building hundreds of coal-fired power plants to manufacture wind turbines, solar panels, EVs, grid-scale batteries and transformers to sell to Western nations for that “energy transition.” -
Using a Different Tool to Control Water
Opinion -It is no coincidence that environmental petitioners have requested that another 3,178 more species be added to the federal endangered list, more than the total number added in the entire 50-year history of ESA. -
The California Energy Scam: Newsom’s Actions of ‘Leaking’ Emissions to Poorer Developing Countries
Opinion -California is probably the most environmentally regulated location on the planet.
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