Ethan Barton An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program spends hundreds of millions of tax dollars every year to recruit and hire talented and highly-experienced senior citizens to work for cheap pay. The agency gave nearly $321 million from 2009 to 2014 to a small group of nonprofits that administer the Senior Environmental Employment (SEE)…
Michael Bastasch A new study supports evidence that rising levels of carbon dioxide emissions are making American forests healthier and more resilient. In fact, U.S. forests are likely to get even healthier over the next few decades. “We found that trees are tolerant of rising temperatures and have responded to rising carbon dioxide,” according to…
Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief told reporters the agency “did its job” when asked how the Obama administration handled the ongoing water crisis in the city of Flint, Mich. “EPA did its job but clearly the outcome was not what anyone would have wanted,” Gina McCarthy told reporters while at an…
Ethan Barton A definitive explanation for what caused the Gold King Mine disaster may never be known if the Environmental Protection Agency is not investigated just as a private company responsible for the calamitous spill would be, according to a former enforcement agent. The EPA accepted blame for the Aug. 5, 2015, leak that poisoned…
Andrew Follett The EPA has made a lot of power grabs of dubious legality over the last year, from forcing unpopular regulations through over the objections of Congress to illegally using social media to promote Obama’s policies. So without further ado, here are the top 5 EPA attempts to grab power through quasi-legal means. 1: The Clean Power Plan The Clean Power…
Michael Bastasch Wyoming regulators have found hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, did not likely contaminate water supplies in the town of Pavillion four years after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted its own botched investigation. State officials published findings Monday showing groundwater contamination near Pavillion was not likely caused by fracking, but instead by gas that naturally…
Andrew Follett Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he wants to fight global warming using the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, but doing so will hurt the very people he claims to champion: everyday working Americans. The Clean Power Plan is expected to cost a staggering $41 billion annually. The plan will eliminate most cheap coal and natural…
Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency is under fire again for touting the viability of carbon capture technology for coal-fired power plants, but this time it’s coming from a prominent Democratic senator. “Forcing new coal-fired plants to meet standards when experts know that the required technology is not sustainably operational on a commercial scale makes…
Michael Bastasch If you were caught with marijuana at work, would you be put on paid leave? Probably not, but that’s because you don’t work at the Environmental Protection Agency where one employee got six months of paid leave after being indicted for pot possession. “The employee was placed on administrative leave on March 17,…
Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency estimated its stricter smog limits would only cost Americans $1.4 billion a year, but a new report argues the total cost to the economy is likely 40 times higher than agency estimates. The right-leaning American Action Forum says EPA’s updated smog, or ground-level ozone, rule could cost $56.5 billion…