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New Hampshire Gov. Sununu Rejects Climate Alliance
Opinion -environment-climate-news -New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) rejected calls to have the state join the nascent U.S. Climate Alliance, a group formed after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement on June 1. -
Congress Considers Water-Rights Protection Bill
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Rep. Scott Tipton reintroduced the Water Rights Protection Act to uphold state water laws and water-rights assignments against federal regulatory agencies’ attempts to reduce property owners’ water rights. -
Oklahoma Criminalizes Violent Pipeline Protests
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A new Oklahoma law imposes significant penalties, including fines and imprisonment, on people and organizations involved in trespassing and other unlawful acts against oil and gas pipelines and related energy infrastructure. -
Senate Considers Bills to Reclaim Regulatory Authority
Opinion -environment-climate-news -On May 17, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent five bills to the full Senate that would reform how federal agencies implement rules and how such rules are finalized. -
Virginia’s McAuliffe Orders State Plan to Curb Power Plants’ Emissions
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has ordered the state’s air-quality regulators to draw up a comprehensive plan to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from Virginia’s power plants. -
Iowa Bans Use of Eminent Domain for Wind-Energy Transmission Lines
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In a setback for the renewable-energy industry, Iowa ennacted a law barring the use of eminent domain for high-voltage transmission lines carrying wind energy across the state into Illinois. -
Alaska Seeks FERC Approval for Giant LNG Export Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Alaska state officials have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve a project to develop infrastructure for transporting natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to Asia. -
West Virginia Advances Pipeline Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Against the wishes of environmental groups, West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection has affirmed its Clean Water Act certification for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, advancing the natural-gas pipeline project toward construction. -
Armstrong: United Nations’ IPCC Climate Forecasts Violate Scientific Method
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Professor J. Scott Armstrong says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change violates each of the basic criteria of the scientific method. -
New Book Shows Governments Cause Ocean Fisheries Decline, Proposes Solutions
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Governments around the world have managed fisheries to benefit local fishing industries with various types of welfare and subsidies, resulting in a decline in ocean fish stocks. -
New York Gov. Cuomo Pushes Costly Methane Reduction Plan
Opinion -environment-climate-news -New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced an ambitious plan to reduce methane emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 throughout New York. -
Congress Targets 1973 Endangered Species Act for Improvement
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Saying the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) is an expensive failure, U.S. Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Dean Heller (R-NV) and U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) introduced legislation to revise the ESA. -
Rhode Island Considers Carbon Tax
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Rhode Island lawmakers are considering imposing a carbon tax that would increase energy costs and other prices of goods and services in the state. -
Book Exposes EPA Scare Tactics Behind Air Quality Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In Scare Pollution, scientist and lawyer Steve Milloy, shows how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ignores the best scientific research to claim small particles are dangerous. -
Virginia Congressman Introduces ‘Acre In, Acre Out’ Act
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) introduced the Acre In, Acre Out Act requiring federal agencies to sell one acre to private owners, states, or localities for every acre a federal agency adds. -
D.C. Appeals Court Pauses Clean Air Litigation, Per Trump Request
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In response to a request by the Trump administration, a 10-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ordered a pause in litigation over air-quality rules proposed by the Obama EPA. -
California Passes Country’s Toughest Methane-Emissions Regulations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -California’s Air Resources Board has passed the nation’s strictest methane-emissions regulations requiring onshore and offshore oil and gas operations to cut emissions 45 percent over the next nine years. -
For Second Time, Portland Commits to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Portland, Oregon and Multnomah County have pledged to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. -
Ebell: ‘Time Is Ripe’ for Resetting Climate Policy
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who headed President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team says the time is right to reform America’s energy and environmental policies. -
Did Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Poach Deer?
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Four out-of-state men have been charged with poaching deer in or near the camp occupied by the Dakota Access pipeline protesters. -
Legislative Pulse: New Hampshire Struggles with Federal, State Mandates
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Four-term New Hampshire state Sen. Andy Sanborn (R-Bedford) discusses the high costs of federal mandates on the states, restricting liberty and economic development. -
NRDC Study: Fracking Doesn’t Pollute Groundwater
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking,” is not a major threat to drinking water, according to a new study financed in part by the anti-fracking Natural Resources Defense Council. -
Senate Rejects Effort to Scrap Obama Methane Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -On May 10 , the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bill to nullify an Obama-era rule restricting methane emissions from oil and natural gas operations on federal and tribal lands. -
North Carolina Bag Ban Under Fire
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The North Carolina Senate passed a bill rescinding a plastic bag ban applying to the state’s Outer Banks, enacted by the legislature in 2010.
