Water

The puddles in your yard are yours again

Puddles and ditches were never meant to be navigable "Waters of the United States" (WOTUS).

By CFACT Ed, Dr. Jay Lehr |2020-01-10T21:16:29-05:00January 11th, 2020|Comments Off

California water users set to get relief from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

In recent years, over 100 billion gallons of water have been flushed into San Francisco Bay each winter – enough to sustain millions of households.

By CFACT Ed, Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2019-10-31T12:36:31-04:00November 1st, 2019|Comments Off

EPA still abusing wetlands regulation

Bad habits are hard to shed. And if you are a bureaucrat at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who has become accustomed to throwing the agency’s considerable weight around, why turn over a new leaf?

By CFACT Ed, Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2019-09-09T10:56:04-04:00September 10th, 2019|Comments Off

The failure of all their dam plans

“Malcolm Turnbull’s Murray Darling Basin plan has failed and must be abolished.

By CFACT Ed, Viv Forbes |2019-07-15T14:18:31-04:00July 17th, 2019|Comments Off

How to solve algal blooms? Tech and property rights

The problem affects many regions of the United States and the world; especially places like Florida, New York, and New Jersey.

By Adam Houser |2019-05-17T15:15:12-04:00May 17th, 2019|Comments Off

Make dishwashers fast again

Please make a quick comment to the Department of Energy right now and let's make our dishwashers fast again.

By Craig Rucker |2018-06-23T06:27:00-04:00June 23rd, 2018|Comments Off

Exaggerating chromium risks

The danger depends on the dose. Being able to detect drops in an Olympic swimming pool does not pose a health or cancer risk.

By Paul Driessen |2016-08-24T19:46:05-04:00August 24th, 2016|3 Comments

British news outlet says take the ‘no-shower challenge’

The Guardian, Britain’s wildly anti-fossil fuel news site, floated the idea on Tuesday of taking the “no-shower challenge” as a way to alleviate water shortages and heal environmental degradation.

By CFACT Ed |2016-06-16T20:29:57-04:00June 16th, 2016|11 Comments

CO2 ‘pollution’ is greening the planet

CFACT advisor Larry Bell reports, "If there’s anything that climate crisis theology clerics hate more than fossil fuels, it’s got to be any glad tidings about CO2." New research shows that the switch to fossil fuels preserved more forests to exchange CO2 for oxygen and also returning plant fertilizer to grow more food in the bargain. Thus, any attempt to REDUCE CO2 is counterproductive, given that CO2 boosts water use efficiency.

By Larry Bell |2016-05-09T14:10:11-04:00May 9th, 2016|8 Comments

Fed court places WOTUS on hold nationwide

Friday was not a good day for the Obama EPA. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals expanded the stay on the Administration's land-grabbing water rule beyond the states that appealed, to the entire nation. The pushback against regulatory overreach is on!

By Craig Rucker |2015-10-09T19:58:49-04:00October 9th, 2015|4 Comments

WOTUS: Court blocks EPA water rule

At the eleventh hour a federal court ordered an injunction blocking EPA's water rule. EPA was defiant. EPA bureaucrats declared that they will only halt the rule in the 13 states that requested the injunction.

By Craig Rucker |2015-08-28T00:34:36-04:00August 28th, 2015|3 Comments

EPA flooded with lawsuits over controversial water rule

Twenty-nine states have filed lawsuits against the EPA for redefining the “Waters of the United States,” or WOTUS. Should local streams, irrigation ponds, roadside ditches, and even “connective” dry lands be placed under the authority of the Clean Water Act?

By Ron Arnold |2015-07-22T20:26:28-04:00July 22nd, 2015|30 Comments

Curbing EPA Abuses

What can be done to curb these abuses and usurpations, and rein in this renegade agency?

By Paul Driessen |2015-06-02T07:53:43-04:00June 2nd, 2015|3 Comments

Proposed water rule puts Americans at EPA’s mercy

It seems incredible, but a single missing word could turn a water law into a government land grab so horrendous even a U.S. Supreme Court justice warned it would “put the property rights of every American entirely at the mercy of Environmental Protection Agency employees.”

By Ron Arnold |2014-11-13T16:33:02-05:00November 13th, 2014|28 Comments

WOTUS: The facts about EPA’s wet fiction

Landowners, homeowners, business owners, home builders, construction companies, the forestry and mining industries, and just about everyone else engaged in productive activities in the United States are in the crosshairs of the most far-reaching power grab the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ever undertaken.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2014-09-29T14:48:01-04:00September 29th, 2014|10 Comments