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Bureaucratic Intransigence Hinders Montana’s Ability to Fight Wildfires
2015 is shaping up to be one of the most severe wildfire seasons in a decade for the American northwest and mountain states, prompting Montana Governor Steve Bullock to declare…
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Oil and Gas Industry Now in EPA’s Crosshairs
EPA’s Regulatory Train Wreck continues. Earlier this week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rule seeking to slash methane emissions from new sources in the…
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Dodd Frank at Five Years – Another Big Government Failure
The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, named for Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative Barney Frank, who helped spearhead its creation in reaction to the financial crisis, was touted as a means…
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Clean Power Plan Legal Battle Begins
Early last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final version of the Clean Power Plan, the federal regulation designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil…
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Clean Power Plan Released
John At a press conference earlier today, President Obama and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy released the agency’s final Clean Power Plan, unquestionably the most consequential and…
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Reports: EPA to release Clean Power Plan next week
According to reports published in both the New York Times and the Washington Post last night, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to release its final…
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Map: Natural Gas Production in the U.S.
One of the greatest achievements of the American 21st Century has been the advances made in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technologies. These innovative well stimulation and extraction techniques have…
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DEA Data Collection Program Served as Model for NSA Program
“The wicked flee when no man pursues,” according to the book of Proverbs. USA Today recently reported that the United States Drug Enforcement Agency maintained a domestic wiretapping program…
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Grady v. North Carolina – Satellite Based Monitoring Programs Are Searches
A decision announced by the Supreme Court earlier this term may force states to re-evaluate their Satellite Based Monitoring (SBM) programs for repeat criminal offenders. Last week, the Court determined…
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SCOTUS: EPA Must Consider Costs Before Imposing Regulation
The Supreme Court’s 2014 Term came to a close on Monday, but not before it issued a strong rebuke of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) handling of the 2012…
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Previewing Michigan v. EPA
Despite having already announced several significant decisions this week, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to hand down another on Monday dealing with the Clean Air…
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EPA Wins First Legal Challenge to Clean Power Plan
This past April, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments in two consolidated cases led by the state of West Virginia and…
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EPA Sets Sights on Airline Industry
Any day now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to release an endangerment finding suggesting that greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes pose a risk to human health.
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Message to States: Don’t Let High Pole Attachment Rates Become Barriers to Broadband
This article by Seth L. Cooper first appeared at the Free State Foundation on June 1, 2015. State and local governments have important policy roles to play in spurring…
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EPA: Fracking Does Not Pose “Systemic” Threat to Drinking Water
Over the past decade, hydraulic fracturing (often colloquially referred to as “fracking”) has generated a great deal of criticism from environmentalists and other activists. However, after conducting a four-year study…
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Arbitrary Pole Attachment Fees Can Limit the Spread of Broadband
The value of access to broadband is well-known, and discussions of how to increase the spread of broadband most effectively and efficiently are common. But, often not discussed are the…
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EPA Finalizes “Waters of the US” Rule
Earlier today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) finalized a much anticipated rule that would redefine “Waters of the United States” and…
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States Submit Comments on Proposed Ozone NAAQS Revision
The above map compiles and categorizes the comments that state officials submitted to EPA regarding the agency’s proposed revision of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground level…
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ALEC Members Tour Port of Savannah
Late this past week, ALEC members converged on the historic southern town of Savannah, Georgia to attend the 2015 Spring Task Force Summit. Before participating in task force meetings…
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Report: EPA’s Carbon Emissions Rule Will Not Mandate Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technology
A report from Inside EPA ($) suggests that the agency appears to have dropped the carbon capture and storage (CCS) requirement in the draft for the final Carbon Pollution…