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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.

Breaking: EPA’s Own “Emanations and Penumbras” Emissions Got Shut Down by a Higher Power – SCOTUS

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 Skip

Big news and AS BIG as the earlier three Biggie Decisions (abortion, Second Amendment, religious liberty). This has HUGE ramifications for unelected, unaccountable, and unassailable faceless bureaucrats that believe that THEY are the lawmakers in our Republic.

Biden’s EPA ‘Erases’ the 1930s ‘cuz “Climate Change”

May 29, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) just had the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) erase a major feature of History that happens to be an inconvenient climate truth.

Biden’s Green Job Dreams All Stop and Start In China

February 7, 2021

Michael Regan is Biden’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He is acknowledging the administration’s green energy agenda enriches China. You can’t fix stupid, as Ron White observes.

CA Green Energy Agenda Caused 50,000 Gal. of Raw Sewage to Dump into the Oakland Estuary

September 30, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The left likes to claim a unique awareness of subtle shades. The many different choices between black and white and all the colors of the rainbow. Hogwash. The left only sees shades and colors when they parrot the party agenda. And there is only one shade of green, and it is just plain stupid.

Self-Draining Swamp: Trump Plan Moves Federal Lands Bureau Out West – Majority of Staff Says it will Quit

December 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Trump Administration is moving the Bureau of Land Management out to where it will be near most of the land it, well, manages. Out west. But the urbanite DC swamp creatures are not hankering to leave the warm embrace of DC and the inside-the-beltway smell of other people’s money.

It’s Time to Vaporize the War on E-Cigarettes

January 6, 2020November 26, 2019 Op-Ed

In what feels like the beginning of a twenty-first-century relapse into the ill-famed days of Prohibition, more and more politicians across the country have flocked to one of the most misguided, counterproductive and reactionary measures in decades.

Shaheen, Hassan, Kuster, and Pappas, Beg the Feds to Screw You Over

November 3, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Nothing says we love job creators and low-income working families like a federal intervention to rob them of their earnings. But guess what? That’s what’s New Hampshire’s Democrat congressional delegation just did.

Proposed Water Standards Would Cost New Hampshire’s Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions

July 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

To borrow from Mitch McDeere, the protagonist in John Grisham’s The Firm, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) ridiculous new water standards is a topic that’s “not sexy, but it’s got teeth.” Sharp enough to cost NH taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

NHDES Proposes Ridiculously Restrictive Water Standard for PFOA/PFAS

June 30, 2019June 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

At ten parts per billion (ppb), a child would need to drink 462 gallons of water a day (for some unknown period of time) to achieve the exposure level to PFOA or PFAS known to result in a likelihood of adverse health effects. New Hampshire’s Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) is recommending 12-15 parts per trillion (ppt).

Data Point – US Air is getting better and better

April 27, 2019 Skip

“Economic Growth with Cleaner Air Between 1970 and 2016, the combined emissions of the six common pollutants (PM2.5 and PM10, SO2, NOx, VOCs, CO and Pb) dropped by 73 percent. This progress occurred while the U.S. economy continued to grow, Americans drove more miles and population and energy use increased.” That chart didn’t show up all … Read more

Merrimack Residents Scaremongering State to Set Ridiculous Standards for Drinking Water

March 7, 2019March 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

I have to keep dipping into this well because the disinformation campaign won’t let it go. Merrimack had a PFOA contamination problem. People are right to want more information. But the campaign has descended into a circus as “residents” demand unrealistic and unnecessary regulatory standards.

While We’re Mitigating PFAS in Our Water – Dental Floss Raised PFAS in Humans

January 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The latest bugbear in the environmental contamination business is PFOA’s. These are part of a family of chemicals called PFAS. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The EPA notes that, PFOA and PFOS have been the most extensively produced and studied of these chemicals. Both chemicals are very persistent in the environment and in the human body … Read more

EPA Admin Scott Pruitt’s Resigns, Left Applauds: Wait, His Replacement is Worse

September 26, 2018July 8, 2018 Steve MacDonald

We liked Scott Pruitt. He was our kind of EPA Administrator. The kind that does more to get the bureaucracy out of the way of the states and the people and their rainwater runoff, ponds, and so on.

The left, inclined as they are toward Federal oversight of everything (because you can’t trust all the states to agree to your central planning regime) hated him.

So when their relentless efforts to purge him bore fruit, they were happy until they realized his successor, the Deputy Administrator, Andrew Wheeler is probably less of what they want than was Pruitt.

Will EPA End California “Tax” on Everyone Else’s Automobiles?

September 26, 2018April 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

For years California’s higher mileage requirements for passenger vehicles have forced manufacturers to offset those costs with higher prices for car buyers all across the nation. But the EPA is dumping Obama CAFE standards for model years 2022-2025 defaulting to the current average of 34.5 mpg.

A legal fight is expected from CAFE-Clingers and Brownistas in Kalinfornistan.

Scott Pruitt and EPA Scrap Obama Era Fuel Efficiency Mandates

September 26, 2018April 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

EPA chief Scott Pruitt just sent a message to consumers and car makers that he’s okay with them deciding what sort of fuel efficiency they want in a motor vehicle.

He just scrapped Obama’s Federal CAFE Standards.

In a statement, Mr. Pruitt said the program, known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE standards, fell victim to politics during the final days of the Obama administration. He said his predecessors at the EPA rushed through rules governing fuel economy for model years 2022 through 2025, and that those rules simply aren’t realistic.

Fixing Obama Era EPA Overreach – The Waters of the US Rule

July 15, 2024March 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Daren Bakst, The Heritage Foundation’s research fellow in agricultural policy, joins me to discuss Obama Era EPA overreach and the Water of the US Rule. Where we are (everything from a lake to a puddle can be regulated). What Congress can or should do. And what if anything you can do to help.

Podcast #157 This is Not Just a Test!

July 15, 2024September 2, 2016 Steve MacDonald

Kimberly Morin and Susan Olsen join me as we explore the wondrous mystery that is Chris Sununu’s stewardship of Waterville Valley. And we take you beyond the news you’ve seen with details no one else has reported.