The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would block the agency from regulating greenhouse gases out of concern for climate change.
At a heated Wednesday hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee More…
On the surface, the two accidents couldn’t have been more different. The first occurred in the rugged mountains of Appalachia; the second was more than a thousand miles away in the Gulf of Mexico. One was miles underground; the other thousands of feet underwater. One happened in pursuit of coal; More…
As TWI’s Matthew Blake reported the White House is looking to ram through dozens of new regulations in the waning weeks of its final term. But Wendy Norris at Colorado Independent points out, via Politico, that a little known 1996 law could allow Congress to More…
It’s something of a tradition– administrations using their final weeks in power to ram through a slew of federal regulations. With the election grabbing the headlines, outgoing federal bureaucrats quietly propose and finalize rules that can affect the health and safety of millions.
The Bush administration has followed this tradition More…
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