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House Votes to Modify Emissions Limits for Some Coal-Fired Power Plants
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation modifying Obama-era air pollution rules for certain types of coal-fired power plants. -
Department of Interior Will Allow Elephant Trophy Imports
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed a ban on the importation of animal parts or trophies from sport-hunted African elephants and lions from select countries. -
Energy Department Calls for Smaller, Modular Coal Power Plants
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is planning to help develop smaller, modular coal-fired power plants that are more efficient and flexible than larger facilities. -
Physics Proves Climate Concerns Overblown, Book Shows
Opinion -In the book Global Warming Temperatures and Projections, physicist William T. Lynch uses physics and mathematical modeling to analyze climate change, demonstrating peoples’ fears of runaway climate change are unjustified. -
Another Carbon Tax Proposal Enters the Fray
Opinion -Ben Zycher of the American Enterprise Institute says a new carbon tax proposal is doomed to failure. -
EPA Announces it is Ending the Use of ‘Secret Science’
Opinion -Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new rule aimed at improving the quality and transparency of the science the agency relies on when developing regulations. -
EPA Streamlines Industrial Facility Upgrade Process
Opinion -U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has announced steps to streamline the agency’s New Source Review process. -
Federal Tax Cuts Benefitting Utility Ratepayers
Opinion -Customers across the country are seeing their electric power, gas, and water costs decline as a result of corporate tax cuts in the Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by President Donald Trump in December of 2017. -
Russia Uses Activists, Web to Slow U.S. Energy Production, Congress Reports
Opinion -A new report from Congress details attempts by the Russian government to disrupt U.S. energy markets. -
Arizona Senate Puts Coal Tax Relief Bill on Hold*
Opinion -A bill to provide tax relief for the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) by exempting income derived from coal mining from the state’s transaction privilege tax is on hold. -
Federal Judge Questions Claims Linking Pesticide to Cancer
Opinion -As part of more than 300 lawsuits before his court, a federal judge held a week-long hearing in mid-March to examine the scientific evidence on whether a popular pesticide causes cancer. -
EPA Revokes Interim Fuel Economy Increases
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency is revoking standards requiring cars and light trucks sold in the United States to achieve an average of more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025. -
Michigan Energy Initiative Would Restrict Choice
Opinion -A new citizens’ ballot campaign in Michigan would force the state to get 30 percent of its electricity from select renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power by 2030. -
New York State Considers Tax on Drivers Entering New York City
Opinion -New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is considering a proposal to charge vehicles entering Manhattan -
Nations Failing to Keep Paris Climate Commitments
Opinion -Global greenhouse gas levels continue to rise as a number of countries are finding it is easier to say they will cut emissions than it is to actually do so. -
Trump Administration Eases Coal-Ash Disposal Regulations
Opinion -The U.S Environmental Protection Agency is revising 2015 rules governing the disposal of coal ash, to provide states and utilities greater flexibility in managing the waste product. -
Science Catastrophe Scares and IPCC Ascent Explained
Opinion -This book describes how in the latter half of the 20th century, as government began to dominate science, scientists discovered they could get huge amounts of funding if they raised public terror over alleged crises in their fields of research. -
California Says It Will Block Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan
Opinion -California government officials declared they will block President Donald Trump’s plan to include a portion of the outer continental shelf (OCS) off the state’s coast in his proposal to expand offshore oil and gas exploration and production. -
Indiana Utility Cuts Rate Request in Response to Federal Tax Cut
Opinion -An Indiana utility reduced its proposed rate increase, saying the recently enacted federal tax reform law allowed it to reduce its request. -
Homeland Security Dept. Waives Environmental Rules for Border Wall
Opinion -To speed up construction of President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is waiving more than 30 environmental rules for a segment of the wall in New Mexico. -
EPA Rejects Connecticut’s Request for Limits on Pennsylvania Coal Plant
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rejected a request from the government of Connecticut to place new limits on ozone emissions from a Pennsylvania-based coal-fired power plant. -
New England Imported Natural Gas from Russia This Winter
Opinion -During the recent severe winter in the northeastern United States, utilities had to import natural gas from Russia to heat homes and keep the electricity on. -
Obama Interior Department Official Violated Ethics Laws
Opinion -The Inspector General of the U.S. Interior Department has found a former Interior Department official in the Obama administration violated federal law to benefit a family member affiliated with a global animal welfare group. -
New Minnesota Organization Protects Property Rights, Fights Wind Farms
Opinion -A group of Minnesota landowners banded together in 2017 to form Wind Locked, LLC, a conservation holding company established to support landowners’ efforts to block wind turbine construction near agricultural and rural lands.
