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KLAR: Good Chemicals, Bad Chemicals – Where Will the EPA Fall?

November 1, 2025 John Klar

The old adage about playing “good cop, bad cop” to elicit a result offers a metaphorical counterpart in an ongoing challenge to EPA approval processes for new chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Enacted during President Trump’s first administration to impose stricter oversight of new chemicals, TSCA may be defanged under his current … Read more

MacDonald: Trump’s EPA Kills $7 Billion Solar Gimme; Dems Whine

August 10, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The Clintons were famous for (among other things) taking souvenirs from the White House when their time ended in January of 2001. Things that temps don’t typically get to keep. I’m not sure if the Bidens followed the Clintons’ lead, but whoever was running the Biden Administration shoveled hundreds of billions of debt-bloating dollars into … Read more

EPA Touts 100-Item List of Accomplishments in Trump’s First 100 Days

May 6, 2025 George Caldwell

George Caldwell – The Daily Signal The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday released a 100-item “brag list” marking the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. “These are just a fraction of the environmental actions we have taken in the first 100 days. Our team at EPA is honored and motivated to fight for you and … Read more

A New Beltway Intrigue: Follow the Biden EPA Money

March 18, 2025 James Varney

When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the President’s envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? The task was complicated by the fact most of the money – $20 … Read more

The EPA’s Racism

October 14, 2024 John Klar

A recent federal court decision prohibited the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating pollution based on skin color. Viewed as a blow to “environmental justice” initiatives, the Louisiana decision hinged on an important distinction between government policies created with racist intent versus those that result in racially disparate impacts. The ruling may influence future regulatory action, raising important … Read more

As SCOTUS Goes Back to Work – A Few Cases To Trigger the Proglodytes

October 9, 2024 Steve MacDonald

A bunch of robes with lawyers in them (housed in the finest Corinthian Style) will sit in judgment over numerous conflicts between people, states, or against the federal government, and so on. This is a tried-and-true tradition with questionable results based increasingly on ideology and peer pressure rather than the Constitution. It is, as they … Read more

Environmental Justice and Pollution Equity

October 6, 2024 John Klar

Do EPA regulations prohibit racism or implement it? A recent federal court decision prohibited the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating pollution based on skin color. Viewed as a blow to “environmental justice” initiatives, the Louisiana decision hinged on an important distinction between government policies created with racist intent versus those that result in racially disparate impacts. The … Read more

EPA Rules on Forever Chemicals Will Take Forever to Do Anything

April 21, 2024 John Klar

Biden’s EPA has announced new rules for Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), more commonly known as forever chemicals since they do not break down in the environment and build up in human bodies.

Outlaw the EPA in NH

February 26, 2024 Op-Ed

Imagine a Mosquito at a nudist colony that knows what to do but doesn’t know where to start. Kudos to State Rep. Michael Granger and the five co-sponsors who know where to start! Introducing HB1294 to Nullify the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in NH will preserve state sovereignty and nullify (EPA) regulation enforcement.

We Need to Take Control Of Our Land and Water Back from the EPA

January 11, 2024 Op-Ed

Going back to 2017, there was a Senate Bill (SB121) that created a Study Commission, chaired by Senator Jeb Bradley, to look at having NH assume responsibility for portions of the federal Clean Water Act. If it had occurred, this would have removed regulatory authority from EPA Region I and bestowed it to NH DES Staff in Concord.

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EPA.GOV – 81% Of Stations Report The Same or Declining Average Temperatures Since 1948

December 6, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a Climate Change Indicators page that we expect will be getting a rehab any day now. When yo select change in hot temperatures it produces a map that contradicts the others on the page.

Concord Whores Drop Their ‘Drawers’ for EPA Green Deal Dollars

December 1, 2023 Steve MacDonald

One of the biggest problems with New Hampshire’s ruling class Concord swamp creatures, what we refer to whimsically as ‘The Five Families,’ is that without regard to a political party, they love them some Federal Money, and there is no such thing as too much.

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According to the EPA. Global Warming … Results in Less Flooding

November 1, 2023 Steve MacDonald

With hurricane season over, the cult will need to find something else to worry us all about. Wildfires weren’t as bad as predicted, nor were tornadoes or any other natural phenomenon. Flooding was crazy in the spring, especially around here, but did you know it’s been in decline?

Biden Has Militarized The EPA

April 15, 2023 Ray Cardello

Biden promised to make fossil fuels extinct and is taking steps to do so with the help of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Joe Biden vowed to do it when talking to blurry-eyed environmental groupies during the 2020 election.

The Expansion of The Tyrannical Admininstrative State is In Overdrive – Can It Be Stopped?

April 12, 2023 Skip

The 1948 Administrative Powers Act gave the Executive Branch, 75 years down the line, the Powers to be its own Government. I hate Congress for passing it and, in doing so, making itself irrelevant. Congress can’t even do their primary jobs anymore.

The Biden Administration Is about to Add a $6/Gallon Tax When You Fill Up Your Car

November 23, 2022 Skip

The Biden Administration is about to add a $6/Gallon tax when you fill up your car. Arbitrarily, by regulators – those faceless, unaccountable, unelected, and unassailable bureaucrats who are part of the Deep State that know better how you are to run your lives than you do.

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Dover NH Wants a Rain Tax – Here’s Why It is Unnecessary and a Bad Idea

October 5, 2022 Op-Ed

No, the photos are not from Florida. They are Dover after the 2006 mother’s day 100-year flood. Here’s a preliminary look at the pending rain tax, aka stormwater utility fee. Don’t feel left out, Portsmouth and Rochester, your cities are poised to sign onto this deal, too.

Really? The EPA Is Going to Take a Second Bite at the CO2 Apple?

July 13, 2022 Skip

Yeah, “jealously guarding their Powers” is a quote I keep using in talking about what each of our co-equal Branches of Government should be doing (but haven’t). Yet, in the lengthening shadow of the SCOTUS decision that the EPA could just make stuff up on their own (e.g., can’t regulate CO2 emissions of power plants … Read more

DISQUS Doodlings: No, Lloyd, SCOTUS Didn’t Limit the EPA Powers; Congress Never Gave It That Power to Begin With! Part 1

July 9, 2022 Skip

The absolute beserk attitudes of the Greenies continues as the SCOTUS decision concerning the EPA’s capability to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants is still reverberating (along with Dobbs (abortion back to the States), NYC (Second Amendment / Conceal Carry), and First Amendment (Religious Liberty for a football coach and religious school student vouchers)). This … Read more

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Notable Quote – See, SCOTUS Was Right in Its Beatdown on the EPA and CO2 Emissions!

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Skip

I found this back on April 1 but it is no April Fool’s Day joke – it is serious stuff and shows that yesterday’s SCOTUS decision (on which I’ll have more to say later) was correct as we on the Right have been watching the rise of The Administrative State.