Trump Is Preparing To Nominate Andrew Wheeler As His Permanent EPA Chief — Activists Are Not Happy
Trump Is Preparing To Nominate Wheeler As His Permanent EPA Chief — Activists Are Not Happy https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/16/trump-epa-andrew-wheeler/ ‘Fantastic job’ — gReader Pro
EPA reforming Obama’s mercury mistake
https://mailchi.mp/cfact/epa-reforming-obamas-mercury-mistake?e=d5e6b5270d EPA reforming Obama’s mercury mistake Recently the Trump administration announced its intention to rollback yet another onerous Obama-era rule designed to kill the use of coal. Known as MATS (the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard), this ill-founded regulation, although tied up in the courts for years, pushed energy providers to either outfit coal plants […]
Trump Tightens Grip on EPA Amid Resisting Bureaucracy
Trump Tightens Grip on EPA Amid Resisting Bureaucracy The Daily Signal by Fred Lucas A political appointee will become the No. 2 lawyer at the Environmental Protection Agency, in a change announced Thursday aimed at ensuring that someone committed to President Donald Trump’s agenda is in charge. The move comes as news reports indicate parts of the […]
More work to be done! EPA’s Proposed Reigning in of Obama climate regs ‘assumes no change in the greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding’
Implications of EPA’s Proposed ACE Replacement for the CPP http://www.carlineconomics.com/archives/4568 by Alan Carlin / Yesterday, 23:59 This week EPA announced their proposed Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) replacement regulation for the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). The Obama Administration’s CPP regulation was intended to achieve much of the CO2 emissions reductions the US proposed under […]
Skeptical Climatologist says Trump’s EPA replacement of Obama climate regs ‘is is still misguided’
BY DR. TIM BALL AND TOM HARRIS AUGUST 24, 2018 Andrew Wheeler, acting administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, prepares to testify during the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing on “Examining EPA’s Agenda: Protecting the Environment and Allowing America’s Economy to Grow” on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ […]
Conservatives Call On EPA To Go Even Further In Limiting Its Own Power – Neet to revisit CO2 endangerment finding
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/22/conservatives-epa-clean-power/ CONSERVATIVES CALL ON EPA TO GO EVEN FURTHER IN LIMITING ITS OWN POWER Michael Bastasch | Contributor Conservative activists want EPA to reconsider a 2009 legal document on greenhouse gases That finding gave former President Barack Obama legal cover to issue billions of dollars worth of new regulations Conservatives claim, “[T]he best and most […]
NYT: New EPA Rollback of Coal Pollution Regulations Takes a Major Step Forward
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/climate/epa-clean-power-rollback.html By Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport Aug. 20, 2018 WASHINGTON — Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, on Monday signed a plan to weaken regulation of coal-fired power plants, advancing a proposal that the coal industry has hailed as an end to burdensome regulation and environmentalists have criticized as a retreat in the […]
CEI: EPA’s Proposed Affordable Clean Energy Rule ‘Huge Improvement’ Over ‘Clean Power Plan’
https://cei.org/content/cei-epas-proposed-affordable-clean-energy-rule-huge-improvement-over-clean-power-plan The Environmental Protection Agency today released a proposed replacement for the Obama Administration’s “Clean Power Plan,” which was finalized in August of 2015. CEI opposed the Clean Power Plan, because it was economically destructive, unlawful, and would have raised energy prices for many Americans. Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell said: “The EPA’s proposed […]
Former EPA official ‘Trump Admin. has done a good job of announcing various deregulatory changes, but have not been as effective in actually repealing regulations’
How Well Is EPA Actually Doing on Deregulation? http://www.carlineconomics.com/archives/4551 By Alan Carlin There is little doubt that the Trump Environmental Protection Agency is trying to roll back a number of Obama’s environmental regulations. And there is also little doubt that many deserve to be partially or fully withdrawn because they are not improving the environment […]
New EPA Chief Will Continue Scott Pruitt’s War With The Corn Lobby
New EPA Chief Will Continue Scott Pruitt’s War With The Corn Lobby http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/25/epa-chief-ethanol-wheeler/ ‘we need to look at ways to change the program’