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Feds to Jump-Start Alaska Energy Production
Opinion -environment-climate-news -U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed a secretarial order aimed at restarting oil exploration and production in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A). -
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Muddies Property Rights
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) delivered a blow to a Wisconsin family and opened new questions about Fifth Amendment protections for private property throughout the nation. -
EPA Air Quality Research, Regulations Flawed, Study Finds
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A new study shows the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims small particles of dust, dirt, and soot, known as PM2.5, cause hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year are wrong. -
Legislative Pulse: Wisconsin REINing in Agencies’ Regulations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Wisconsin state Sen. Frank Lasee (R-Ledgeview), cosponsored the Wisconsin REINS Act requiring any rule with a fiscal impact exceeding $10 million over two years be approved by the legislature before taking effect. -
Fossil-Fuel Divestment Could Cost Public Pensions Big Bucks, Study Finds
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A new study shows fossil fuel divestment is costly to investors. -
Climate Science Isn’t Settled, Energy Secretary Perry Testifies
Opinion -environment-climate-news -At a hearing before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Energy Secretary Rick Perry testified climate is changing but human carbon dioxide emissions are not the main cause. -
Interior Department Moves to Shrink Multiple National Monuments
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration is reviewing 27 national monuments, considering shrinking them in size and altering the activities allowed within their borders. -
FWS Drops Mexican Vole from Endangered Species List
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the Hualapai Mexican vole from the endangered species list, three decades after mistakenly listing the rodent as an endangered subspecies of Mexican vole in 1987. -
Kemper, Mississippi Coal Gasification Plant Falters
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Southern Company is ending its attempts to gasify coal at it's Kemper Project, announcing it would operate the facility as a natural gas power plant. -
Wisconsin Legislature Passes First State REINS Act
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Wisconsin becomes the first state to require any major regulation proposed by administrative agencies be approved by the state’s legislature and signed by the governor with enactment of the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act. -
Attorney General Ends DOJ ‘Slush Fund’ Settlements
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Under orders from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Federal prosecutors are no longer allowed to force companies to make payouts to outside groups under settlement agreements with the Department of Justice. -
Government Scientist Withheld Evidence Popular Herbicide Doesn’t Cause Cancer
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Reuters uncovered evidence a study by a World Health Organization scientist concluding the popular herbicide Roundup is a probable carcinogen is wrong and the researcher knew it. -
Maine Enacts Nation’s First ‘Food Sovereignty’ Law
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Maine has become the first state in the nation to enact a “food sovereignty” law allowing local communities to exempt locally grown and -sold foods from some state regulations. -
EPA Moves to Scrap WOTUS Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Army, and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to rescind the controversial 2015 Waters of the United States rule. -
Nashville Mayor’s Plan to Reduce CO2 Emissions Will Increase Energy Costs
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Mayor Megan Barry's plan to have Nashville cut it's greenhouse gas emissions to keep the Paris climate agreement goals rejected by President Trump will raise energy costs for Nashville residents and businesses. -
United States Is Still World’s Largest Oil and Natural Gas Producer, EIA Reports
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A June 2017 report from the Energy Information Administration finds the United States continues to lead the world in oil and natural gas production. -
New Book Documents Huge Flaws in Sustainable Development Policies
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In this book, Steve Goreham documents the damage eco-activists have wrought, and it can be reversed. -
States Move to Roll Back Environmental Rules, Following President’s Example
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Many state legislatures are reducing state interventions in energy markets and promoting greater use and easier development of energy resources. -
Iowa to End Some Renewable-Energy Tax Credits
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Iowa's legislature ended its 2017 session in April without renewing Iowa’s 10-year production tax credit of 1.5 cents per kilowatt hour for non-wind renewable energy. -
Paris Withdrawal Is Latest Step in Trump’s Energy Policy Reversal
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump’s June withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate accord is the latest action he’s taken to make energy independence and global economic competitiveness a priority over commitments to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. -
EPA Delays Ozone Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration announced it would delay implementation of stricter ozone standards for one year. -
Attorneys General Push for Repeal of EPA Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed by eight Republican attorneys general calls for the “repeal, replacement or modification” of the Clean Power Plan and 20 other EPA regulations issued by the Obama administration. -
Colorado AG Appeals Court’s Oil and Gas Drilling Decision, Despite Governor’s Objections
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman (R) is appealing a decision made by a panel of the state’s Court of Appeals, which Coffman says could effectively shut down oil and gas drilling in the state. -
California Public Employee Pension Rejects Divestment
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The caretakers of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) have chosen not to give in to pressure to divest their holdings in fossil fuel-related businesses.
