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October 15, 2019

Two Kansas Counties Stop Major Wind, Solar Industrial Developments

Two central Kansas counties are applying the brakes to the expansion of industrial wind facilities within their borders.

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October 14, 2019

Idaho Phosphate Mine Wins Approval by Bureau of Land Management

The Idaho Falls District Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved the Caldwell Canyon Mine Project, an open pit phosphate mine in Caribou County in the southeastern part of the state.

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October 11, 2019

EPA Allows Environmental Review of Alaska Pebble Mine

By Kenneth Artz

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its Obama-era 2014 decision preventing consideration of the Pebble Mine project near Bristol Bay, Alaska, allowing the environmental review process to begin.

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Environment

October 10, 2019

Trump Administration Promotes Species Conservation with New Rules

By Daren Bakst

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service released final regulations aimed at improving implementation of the 1973 Endangered Species Act to protect threatened and endangered species while strengthening pr

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Environment

October 10, 2019

EPA to Rescind East Texas Air-Quality Nonattainment Designation

By Bonner R. Cohen

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposes to reverse the agency’s 2016 designation of parts of five east Texas counties near a large coal-fueled power plant as being in nonattainment for sulfur dioxide levels under the 1970 Clean Air Act.

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Energy

October 9, 2019

Climate Catastrophe Theory Is ‘Hoax,’ Award-Winning Scientist Says

By Jay Lehr, H. Sterling Burnett

Beginning in 1980, with the very poorly thought-out Comprehensive Environmental Regulation and Compensation Act legislation, better known as Superfund, environmental zealots took over EPA, and not another useful piece of legislation has passed since.

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Climate Change

Environment

October 8, 2019

Legislative Pulse: Colorado Legislature Overrides Voters’ Oil and Gas Decision

By H. Sterling Burnett

New restrictions on oil and gas development in Colorado is a mockery of local control, and will devastate the industry.

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Energy

Climate Change

October 7, 2019

Twenty-Two States, Seven Cities Sue Trump Administration Over Power Plant Rule

By Bonner R. Cohen

A coalition of 22 states and seven cities has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the Trump administration violated the 1970 Clean Air Act when it replaced Obama-era coal-fueled power plant rules with new regulations to curb carbon-dioxide emissions.

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Climate Change

October 2, 2019

EPA Exceeds President’s Goals for Reducing Regulations

By Kenneth Artz

An internal watchdog report shows the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has exceeded the president’s regulatory reduction goals, removing more regulations per regulation issued in fiscal year 2017 than any other federal agency.

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Environment

October 2, 2019

Federal Court Trump Administration Ax Obama Era WOTUS Rule

By Bonner R. Cohen

One of the most far-reaching regulatory initiatives ever undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been struck down by a federal court in Georgia and then withdrawn by the Trump administration.

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Environment

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