ACE may be good hardware, but bad regulation
What was the advantage of bringing in a weaker version of Obama’s misguided Clean Power Plan?
WH: Remarks by President Trump on America’s Environmental Leadership
Read remarks by President Trump, EPA Administrator Wheeler and others on America's environmental success story.
EPA replaces failed Clean Power Plan
The Trump administration has officially ended Obama’s war on coal. CFACT Collegians attend in support.
EPA’s Obama-era “endangerment finding” fails IQA requirements
EPA's finding that carbon dioxide represents a dangerous public health and safety "pollutant" should finally be subjected to a proper "high level" peer review as required by the U.S. Information Quality Act (IQA).
Ending Obama’s EPA climate deception
Let’s finally review the Endangerment Finding used to justify trillions in climate and energy costs.
Reining in the monster That is NEPA
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a nearly 50-year-old federal statute that has come to symbolize Washington’s bureaucratic inertia.
Prodding Trump’s EPA to reexamine “Endangerment Finding”
BY WILLIAM KOVACS: without independent testing of the factual claims establishing its Finding, EPA retains the power to regulate all energy-producing and energy-using activities throughout the United States – and thus to regulate our production, consumption, transportation, employment base and living standards.
EPA reins in murky “WOTUS” rule
Gabriella Hoffman: President Obama’s EPA deemed all bodies of water—including puddles and ditches— as “navigable waters” subject to regulation under the WOTUS rule.
Trump Administration scuttles Obama-era WOTUS “Waters of the United States” rule
By rolling back Obama’s 2015 “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, the administration has put an end to the biggest power grab in the 48-year history of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Unfounded fears about synthetic pesticides
By Steve Goreham. Our modern society suffers from “chemophobia." Will insects eat our crops or people? Scientific evidence shows that everyday exposure to synthetic pesticides is negligible and that widespread pesticide fears are unfounded.
Does government really need to regulate everything?
By Greg Walcher Can no program be allowed to expire?
CFACT official comment: CAFE reform will offer important relief
The Trump administration’s plan to freeze corporate average fuel economy (CAFÉ) standards for five years and to revoke California’s power to set its own gas-mileage rules will bring much-needed reform to the antiquated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards.
EPA rolling back Obama’s mercury rule
The Obama administration originally found that forcing coal-fired plants to use the mercury control technology would cost an estimated $9.6 billion a year — the most expensive clean air regulation. This cost was far higher than the expected annual health savings of $6 million. However, the administration was able to rack up these health saving numbers by enabling the MATS Rule, with co-benefits adding another $80 billion, according to The New York Times.
EPA’s proposed “Affordable Clean Energy Rule” is responsible, constructive
The draft EPA rule still seeks to curb CO2 emissions, but provides states with essential flexibility to balance this requirement with meeting their energy. As before, power plant emissions are still estimated to fall 33 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, but do so without imposing the high CPP costs.
CFACT public comment on Administration’s Endangered Species Act reform
Officials have unveiled a package of reforms crafted to make the 45-year-old statute better serve both the species it is supposed to recover and landowners caught up in the law’s cumbersome regulations. Read CFACT's official comment.