Jake MacAulay, With a proposed $8.2 billion budget and over 15,000 employees to provide for, the “Environmental Protection Agency” (EPC) has come a long way since Republican President Richard Nixon signed an executive order to begin their unconstitutional work in December of 1970. The purpose of the EPA as stated on their website is… [Read More]
Mine owner: EPA record of toxic dumping dates back to 2005
The EPA has a record of releasing toxic runoff from mines in two tiny Colorado towns that dates to 2005, a local mine owner claims. The 3-million-gallon heavy-metal spill two weeks ago in Silverton polluted three states and touched off national outrage. But the EPA escaped public wrath in 2005 when it secretly dumped up… [Read More]
Florida Man Ordered by City to Keep BBQ Smell From Leaving His Property
“You’re allowed to have it smell on your property, so that doesn’t count, but when I’m on the street, that’s when it counts” Video of the incident, originally posted to Facebook Wednesday by homeowner Scotty Jordan, shows Pinellas County Environmental Specialist Joe Graham discussing the alleged infraction with Jordan and friends after a nearby neighbor… [Read More]
Too ‘dramatic’: Monsanto shuns WHO verdict that Roundup ‘probably’ causes cancer
The active ingredient in the world’s most widely-used Roundup herbicide has been classified as “probably” carcinogenic to humans by a branch of the World Health Organization. The agrochemical giant Monsanto, has immediately rejected the new conclusions. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in their latest study said that there was“convincing evidence” that glyphosate in… [Read More]
EPA wants to monitor how long hotel guests spend in the shower
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower. The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify their behavior.” “Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S…. [Read More]
McConnell urges states to ignore Obama administration’s orders… no, the other ones
Noah Rothman, Following the Republican Senate majority’s humiliating failure to advance a House bill that would have de-funded the implementation of Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, you might expect Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to steer clear of any issue relating to the president’s executive authority. But that presumption significantly underestimates the majority leader’s… [Read More]
REPORT: Fracking Doesn’t Create Destructive Earthquakes…?
Matt Vespa The debate is over; fracking doesn’t cause destructive earthquakes. The highly non-controversial way of extracting natural gas, which has been used since 1947, has been a focal point of some absurd claims that they’re a threat to the environment (via Associated Press) [emphasis mine]: Man-made earthquakes, a side effect of some high-tech energy drilling,… [Read More]
Mark Levin Sues Obama’s EPA for Illegally Destroying Public Records
The Environmental Protection Agency is the epitome of bureaucratic tyranny. The agency is filled with unelected bureaucrats that wield the power of government to attack individuals and businesses, all under the guise of environmental concern, in order to advance their progressive socialist agenda. The EPA has recently passed new regulations, greatly expanding the Clean Air… [Read More]
Obama has Plans to Force Energy Rates to Skyrocket
When President Obama ran for office in 2008, he promised he’d implement new policies that would force electricity rate to “necessarily” skyrocket. Here we are six years later and President Obama is set to announce new, major regulations on power plants in the name of climate change. The New York Timesis calling it the boldest… [Read More]
Another win for Monsanto: US raises allowable levels of company�s pesticide in crops
RT Biotech giant Monsanto has been awarded yet another victory by the federal government thanks to a recent Environmental Protection Agency decision to allow larger traces of the herbicide glyphosate in farm-grown foods. Despite a number of studies linking exposure to the chemical with diseases including types of cancer, the EPA is increasing the… [Read More]
Mining Industry�s Fate to be Determined by Anti-Mining EPA
Christopher Prandoni Empowered by a recent court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency is coopting arcane laws to inhibit economic development and kill thousands of jobs. In order for a mining operating to begin production, developers must apply for and receive a handful of permits. One such mandatory permit is the Section 404 permit required under… [Read More]
The Obama Administration�s secret email network
We had a few laughs yesterday when it was discovered that the phony Environmental Protection Agency employee created by disgraced administrator Lisa Jackson to conceal some of her email correspondence was treated like a real person by the bureaucracy, winning awards for his job performance and ethical conduct. But today we have an Associated Press… [Read More]