Congress needs to repeal the Biden EPA and California attack on gas-powered cars

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The attack on gas-powered vehicles exists on multiple fronts, including through federal and state regulation. Regarding federal regulation, much of the attention has been focused on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) de facto electric vehicle mandate. However, there is another Biden EPA action that would likely lead to an even worse result. In its closing days, the […]

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Reasons Why Regulating CO2 Emissions Needs to be Reconsidered

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March 7, the Washington Post reported the EPA Administrator is considering recommending to the White House that the EPA’s 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding be rescinded. Let’s look at a few of the reasons why this might be a good thing to consider. The Science The science of human-caused climate change is much more uncertain that you have

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A Coalition Letter Opposing the Confirmation of Joseph Goffman as EPA’s Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation

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Washington, DC26th July 2022 Dear Chairman Carper, Ranking Member Capito, and Members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: The undersigned organizations and individuals write to express and explain our opposition to the confirmation of Joseph Goffman as Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation in the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Goffman served in

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50th Earth Day: Compassionate concern for humans and their habitat

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A measured response to COVID-19 must balance health and economic needs Fifty years of weather have passed since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. This was the same year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was established and the federal Clean Air Act was promulgated. Over the past five decades, since I rode my bike to

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Ending ‘Sue-and -Settle’ Extortion

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Last week, federal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a directive aimed at reducing “sue-and-settle” lawsuits. For those who like voters to have input in the creation of environmental regulation, this is a great move. For decades, environmental advocacy groups have exerted outsized influence—and profited financially—from “friendly” lawsuits against the EPA. These lawsuits have

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Pruitt Sounds Death Knell for Scandalous “Sue-and-Settle” at EPA

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One of the reasons the Cornwall Alliance supported President Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt, at the time Oklahoma Attorney General, as Administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was that Pruitt “publicly opposed the abuse of the court system by use of ‘sue-and-settle’ to reach sweetheart deals between the EPA and environmental advocacy

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Trump’s Rollback of EPA Overreach: What No One is Talking About

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President Trump’s actions yesterday (March 28) to rein in the EPA on a number of fronts involves the usual tension between environment and prosperity. Trump has rightly asserted that we can have both a relatively clean environment and prosperity, but this falls on deaf ears in the environmental community. His actions are painted as Republican’s

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