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Tag Archives: pollution

• Article: Strangling Romney’s Recovery

  Six years ago I walked out of a meeting with EPA very discouraged. Even then, in 2007, and long before Obama, I realized that something was very wrong with our nation’s energy regulatory environment. Our environment … Continue reading →

  

• Post: Fishing the Forgotten River in the Nation’s Capital

  On a recent boat ride up the Anacostia River, the first warm day of spring had lured anglers to the riverbank. Cooped up over the winter, they seized the opportunity to return to their faithful friend—filled … Continue reading →

  

• Post: In New Poll, 44 Percent of Americans Approve of Supreme Court

  Just 44 percent of Americans approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing and three-quarters say the justices’ decisions are sometimes influenced by their personal or political views, according to a new poll conducted by … Continue reading →

  

• Post: EPA Endangers Human Health and Welfare

  Last week, a three-judge panel of the federal District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard two days of oral arguments in the lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions using … Continue reading →

  

• Post: State Department Faces Review of Keystone XL Pipeline Process

  Amid growing criticism of the U.S. State Department’s review of the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline, the department’s inspector general announced Monday that it is opening an investigation to determine whether the department has complied … Continue reading →

  

• Article: New Heroes vs. Old

  When I mention that my family used kerosene lamps when I was a small child in the South during the 1930s, that is usually taken as a sign of our poverty, though I never thought of … Continue reading →