Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced that the agency will reconsider the so-called endangerment finding, which triggers the regulation of greenhouse gases under various provisions of the Clean Air Act. For reasons I explained in this post, I believe this is a fool’s errand, no matter wha Read More Article from Reason.com Reason […]
What’s the latest federal agency drawing the scrutiny of the Trump administration for inefficiency, expense, and administrative bloat? It’s the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a federal bureaucracy long infamous for intruding into Americans’ lives and making it more difficult and expensive to do business. The EPA’s own administrator, Lee Zeldin, says the agency is overdue […]
On Friday, President Donald Trump released his budget proposal, which included targeted cuts to federal clean energy programs and ending funding to what the president calls “the Green New Scam.” The Trump administration is now shifting its focus to energy efficiency programs. CNN reported Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to shutter the […]
Government makes most things worse. President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a war on poverty; President Richard Nixon a war on drugs. Both had good intentions, but their “wars” do more harm than good. I believed the war on poverty would lift people out of poverty. At the time I was a naive Princeton student who […]
The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have been tumultuous and marred by abhorrent trade strategies and legally dubious immigration policies. Trump’s first 100 days have also disrupted energy markets and sparked uncertainty among energy producers. Trump has used his first 100 days to advance his fossil fuel energy agenda through executive fiat. […]