By Ethan Barton A child-molesting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who was paid $55,000 to retire is only one of many bad agency employees who skirted termination, according to a congressional committee. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held its third hearing Wednesday focused on EPA employees who successfully avoided serious punishment or resigned or retired…
Andrew Follett America shut down enough coal power plants last year to blackout Great Britain, according a report published by pro-industry Institute For Energy Research (IER), citing data from The Sierra Club. The total amount of electrical power generation going offline in America is equivalent to blacking out the entirety of the United Kingdom. American coal use has…
Ethan Barton It appears the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has no plan to protect humans and wildlife if contaminates left behind after August’s Gold King Mine spill are stirred up and reach dangerous levels. The EPA spilled 880,000 pounds of dangerous metal waste, including lead and arsenic, into the Animas River in August 2015…
Kathryn Watson Rep. Paul Gosar blasted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday after The Daily Caller News Foundation reported the agency’s record of letting anonymous employees who devour porn and steal on the job go right back to work. “The employee integrity cases released this week by the EPA Office of Inspector General further corroborate a culture…
By Michael Bastasch Michigan regulators have gotten most of the blame for allowing high levels of lead get into the city of Flint’s drinking water, but a new government report notes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wasn’t enforcing federal law despite knowing lead was seeping into people’s drinking water. A new Congressional Research Service (CRS)…
Kathryn Watson Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees watched porn on the job, stole government equipment — selling it for quick cash — and drove under the influence while on the clock, but Americans who fund their salaries will likely never know their names. The EPA Office of Inspector General (IG) investigated dozens of EPA…
by Ethan Barton Six obscure nonprofits funded almost entirely by federal taxpayers in an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program that recruits technically skilled seniors for cheap labor are “scandals waiting to happen,” according to an expert on advocacy groups. “The idea of government funding charitable works ought to be something conservatives and libertarians are concerned…
by Michael Bastasch The Obama administration has vowed to sign a United Nations global warming deal in April, despite intense opposition from the Senate and a Supreme Court ruling derailing the government’s green regulatory scheme. “We’re going to go ahead and sign the agreement this year,” Todd Stern, the U.S.’s climate envoy told reporters Tuesday, brushing…
Michael Bastasch The tragic death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia already has pundits guessing how this will affect pending court decisions, including a case that could determine the fate of President Barack Obama’s global warming agenda. Just before Scalia was found dead at a Texas ranch over the weekend, the conservative justice joined the…
Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adamant its signature regulation to fight global warming is legally sound in the face of a major legal blow by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, but the agency hasn’t always been so confident in its authority to force states to stop burning coal. Audio…