President Trump said Thursday he’s preparing to announce a “giant package” to boost demand for ethanol, responding to rising concerns in rural America about the administration’s exemptions for refineries from blending biofuels. “The Farmers are going to be so happy when they see what we are doing for Ethanol, not even including the E-15, year […]
Big Gov Publishes New Cooling Standards: Thermostat Should Be Set to 82 Degrees When Sleeping…
Fresh from the same Dept. of Energy and EPA that gave us: toilets that don’t flush; light bulbs that don’t light; dishwashers that don’t wash; plant-based fuel that burns like carrots; and paper straws that dissolve in liquid…. Now we get this – […] Energy Star, the federal program from the DOE and the Environmental […]
RoundUp Trial: Expert Flunks EPA Handling of Roundup Approval…
At the start of testimony in what looks to be a long and contentious trial over whether Roundup caused the cancer of an elderly couple, a cancer-risk expert said he would give the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency an “F” on its report deeming glyphosate, one of the main agrochemicals in Roundup, noncarcinogenic. “I’d fail them,” […]
RoundUp Trial: Monsanto Used Fake Data to Win Over Regulators…
Trump to Nominate Andrew Wheeler, Current Acting Head of EPA, to Secretary of EPA…
President Trump said he plans to nominate Andrew Wheeler, acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to be the EPA’s Senate-confirmed administrator. Trump made the announcement Friday during a White House ceremony for Medal of Freedom recipients. He said Wheeler “is going to be made permanent,” adding that “he’s done a fantastic job and I […]
Trump EPA Overhauls Obama-Era Regulations for Coal-Fired Power Plants…
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced a new plan Tuesday to roll back and replace controversial Obama-era regulations on emissions from coal-fired power plants. While the Obama administration and Democrats saw the Clean Power Plan as a crucial component in international efforts to curb global warming, Republicans have long claimed those regulations went too […]
EPA Forced to Ban Pesticides Based on ‘Secret Science’ It Wants to End…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fewer than 60 days to ban a commonly-used pesticide after a federal court ruled in favor of environmental activists in early August. The Natural Resources Defense council (NRDC) celebrated the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, arguing that EPA’s decision not to ban chlorpyrifos ignored “solid science” from its […]
ADP Private Payrolls: 219,000 Jobs Gained, 23,000 More Manufacturing Jobs…
The ADP national employment report is a monthly measure of the change in total U.S. nonfarm private employment derived from actual, anonymous payroll data of companies served by ADP. The report measures approximately 24 million U.S. workers along with employment trends in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics. For July 2018, ADP has calculated payroll increases of […]
Secretary of EPA Scott Pruitt Resigns…
Scott Pruitt stepped down as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, after a series of controversies that overshadowed his year of leading President Trump’s anti-regulation, pro-growth agenda. “I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, […]
Meet His Replacement…
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