With Congress unable to pass cap-and-trade legislation as easily as some Members hoped, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with its own set of global warming regulations. Read More.
The implementation of these rules will have a significant impact on the economy and small businesses Read More.
Abstract: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a report showing that the EPA did not comply with federal data guidelines when providing its technical support document (TSD) for the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding.” The EPA used the TSD to… Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to implement stronger air pollution restrictions on ozone (smog) for the stated purpose of improving public health.[1] These regulations are misguided because they would impose significant costs for little or no benefit.[2] At the same time, policies being implemented at… Read more
The U.S. economy won a temporary reprieve with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement last week that new ozone standards, which had been slated for this summer, will be delayed. The EPA’s “reconsideration” of the ozone standards it set in 2008 and issuance of more stringent standards violate all three… Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has postponed imposition of unduly onerous regulations governing emissions from hundreds of thousands of commercial, institutional, and industrial boilers. While the action is welcome, it would be premature to conclude that the Obama Administration has undergone a regulatory epiphany. Instead, the postponement reveals the extent… Read more
Just hours before a congressional hearing this week related to the high costs of regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report purporting to show that the Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 will avert 230,000 premature deaths and yield economic benefits totaling $2 trillion in the year… Read more
Abstract: As the new Congress assembles, many legislators are considering how to lessen the regulatory burden on Americans. President Obama, too, now says that he wants to root out unnecessary government rules. With regulatory costs at record levels, relief is sorely needed. But it… Read more
My name is Ben Lieberman and I’m the Senior Policy Analyst for Energy and Environment at The Heritage Foundation. I’m proud to say that I’ve either participated in, or attended, all four of the Heartland Institute’s global warming conferences. If there’s a fifth and a sixth, I’ll be there, too.… Read more
The Clean Air Act was never intended to address global warming, and regulations attempting to do so would be very troublesome for the economy. Fortunately, the Congressional Review Act was enacted to stop just such bad regulations. S.J. Res. 26, sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R–AK) would use the act… Read more
There is little doubt that legislative measures designed to address global warming would greatly burden the agricultural sector. Farming is energy intensive, and cap-and-trade bills--namely the House Waxman-Markey bill, which passed in June, and the Boxer-Kerry bill pending in the Senate--are… Read more
David Kreutzer, Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst for Energy Economics at The Heritage Foundation, discusses how the Environmental Protection Agency's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) foreshadows new regulations of unprecedented scope, magnitu … Read more
Talk about bad timing. Gas prices are spiking and U.S. energy policy is contributing to skyrocketing food costs, yet environmentalists apparently want to make it even more expensive to live in America. And they're trying to use the polar bear to do it. A federal judge in California ruled last week that the Bush administration must… Read more
(Archived document, may contain errors) T 965 November 2,1993 SHOULD CONGRESS BE ABOVE THE LAW Congress] can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society James Madison, Federalist No. 57… Read more
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Whatever his other qualities, outgoing White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley seemed to understand that punitive...… Read more
Today the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Sackett v. EPA, one of the most important property rights cases to...… Read more
Mike and Chantell Sackett just wanted to build their dream home in the Idaho panhandle. Instead, they're headed to the...… Read more
Before he became president of MF Global, the bankrupt brokerage firm that lost $1.2 billion in client money, Bradley...… Read more
Hindsight is supposed to be 20/20, but looking back on the past 12 months, it’s tough to see any sense in many of the...… Read more
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The EPA’s analysis of the new mercury rule (the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology, or Utility MACT) is yet...… Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seemingly undeterred by the slow economic recovery, is marching ahead with...… Read more
Federal authorities have ruled that the drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania, which some claimed had been...… Read more
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