At a time when there is much finger pointing in the GOP some are looking for better ways to reach the people. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is one such person. This week he announced a “Victims of Government” project where he introduces Americans to the effects of too much government and federal regulations. The Victims [...]
Leftwing progressive organization, Land Stewardship Project bussed in activists from rural Minnesota to lobby for a “temporary moratorium” (read: 30 year moratorium that will never go away) on silica sand mining in the state, a direct attack on the natural gas industry. The silica sand has been used for decades in hydraulic fracturing – also [...]
With GasLand 2 on the horizonand just in time to influence the 2012 election, more and more discrepancies are coming out about the film. The documentary, directed by Josh Fox, details the horrors of fracking and the environmental damage it leaves in the process. One of the most famous scenes in the film deals with [...]
As conservatives recover from the Supreme Court ruling, we cannot let Obama off on his unrepentant assault on American coal. Obama’s war on coal is killing job throughout the country and it was disappointing that the Senate failed last week to block the new EPA regulations that could bring the destruction of the entire industry one [...]
From Fox Business Mike and Chantall Sackett and Pacific Legal Foundation’s Damien Schiff on the couple’s battle with the EPA over the agency’s claim their property was a protected wetland.
As the EPA continues to run amok, especially in their stance towards coal, three congressmen have formed a bi-partisan alliance to rein in this leviathan of regulation. According to Audrey Hanson of Human Events, the EPA is trying to stretch the Clean Water Act to absurd limits by seeking to “control land alongside ditches, gullies [...]
WASHINGTON , May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied the American Petroleum Institute’s (API’s) request to eliminate mandates for biofuels that do not exist, and the agency continues to fine refiners for not using them. “EPA’s mandate is out of touch with reality and forces refiners to pay a penalty for not using imaginary [...]
Last week, a powerful video came out detailing what America should do with its energy resources, if it wanted to fail. This week, a member of Obama’s EPA was caught discussing tactics that they use to “crucify” American energy companies. The White House press secretary has tried to say that the Obama administration does not [...]
The Extreme Political Activists, (also known as the EPA, or Environmental Protection Agency) of the Obama administration recently announced new carbon emissions limits for all future coal-fired power plants in the U.S. that will require all new coal-fired power plants to cut their carbon emissions by approximately 50%. Just how does EPA head environmental activist Lisa Jackson propose that [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24, 2012 – The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) said today that more than 7 million Americans would no longer be able to afford to buy a new car or truck in 2025 if the most expensive fuel economy rule ever proposed goes into effect. The comments were made by NADA director Forrest McConnell in testimony [...]
The state of North Dakota currently boasts of a current rate of 3.2% unemployment. ( as of July 2011) It is adding billions of dollars to the states “Legacy Fund” which can not be touched until the year 2017, when the accrued interest will be made available to spend unlike the irresponsible states that spend the [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2012 – The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, American Petroleum Institute and Western States Petroleum Association jointly filed a petition today requesting that the Environmental Protection Agency waive the 2011 cellulosic biofuel volume mandate in its entirety, because it appears no cellulosic biofuel was actually produced last year. The petition notes that EPA’s monthly summary [...]
