Representative Cynthia Lummis
Over the last several weeks, more data has come out indicating problems with how the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) is working. Studies from both the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Notre Dame Law School show funds are flowing to environmental groups contrary to Congressional intent. Read More ...
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Wall Street Journal
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday chided a regional official for his harsh description of the agency's enforcement strategy, after Republican lawmakers claimed it was evidence the Obama administration is over-regulating industries.
Congressional Republicans this week called for the firing of Al Armendariz, who heads the EPA office in Dallas, after a 2010 video surfaced where he likened the agency's enforcement policy to that of Roman conquerors. He apologized and remains in his job. Read More ...
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Bloomberg Businessweek
President Barack Obama faces the specter of twin setbacks at the U.S. Supreme Court in the middle of his re-election campaign with justices questioning his assertion of federal power on both health care and immigration. Read More ...
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Energywire
The leaders of a northwest Colorado county atop one of the world's largest oil shale reserves have passed a formal resolution chastising an Obama administration proposal dramatically cutting the amount of public land available for research and development. Read More ...
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NPR
After weeks of high gas prices, President Obama is on the defensive about his energy policy. On March 15, he justified his administration's high-profile green energy failures by invoking a predecessor's alleged skepticism of innovations: "Rutherford B. Hayes reportedly said about the telephone: 'It's a great invention but who would ever want to use one?' " Obama went on to demonize Republican opposition to his renewable energy plans. "If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'Flat Earth Society.' They would not have believed that the world was round."
As it turns out, Rutherford B. Hayes never said that about telephones and was quite impressed by the invention. Read More ...
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Climatewire
There is enough storage capacity underneath the earth to hold at least a century's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's coal-fired power plants, according to a new study. Read More ...
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Bloomberg
Molycorp Inc. (MCP), owner of the largest rare-earth deposit outside of China, agreed to buy Canada’s Neo Material Technologies Inc. (NEM) for about C$1.3 billion ($1.3 billion) to increase Chinese sales and gain technology used to make magnets. Read More ...
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Washington Post
Disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record number of Americans now give the president “strongly” negative reviews on the 2012 presidential campaign’s most important issue, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Read More ...
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Miami Herald
President Barack Obama this week ordered his Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group back to work, 10 months after it was created to get to the bottom of soaring gasoline and oil prices. His administration says, however, that the panel never stopped working, an assertion seemingly at odds with the White House announcement that it will resume action. Read More ...
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Wall Street Journal
The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it plans to retest water in Pavillion, Wyo., after releasing a report last year suggesting the region's water supply had been contaminated by natural-gas production and the drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing. Read More ...
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