The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced it is rolling back several National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reforms made under the Trump administration. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response: "Yet another short-sighted decision from the Biden administration. At a time when we should be coalescing … Continue reading Biden Imposes More Red Tape, Federal Bureaucracy During Inflation
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U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) recently filed an amici curiae brief in support of the petitioners in the pending case Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Sackett case is directly related to how much authority the federal government has over states and private citizens to regulate “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean … Continue reading Thune to U.S. Supreme Court: Reject Federal Overreach on Water Regulations
A Circuit Court in Richmond, VA last week ordered the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Virginia to conduct a proper search for emails and other records requested by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and attorney Christopher Horner three and a half years ago under the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The court ruled that … Continue reading Court Rules VA Attorney General Must Turn Over Emails Related to “Law Enforcement for Rent” Scheme
This week fishermen from New Jersey and Massachusetts filed a lawsuit challenging a proclamation from the Biden administration banning commercial fishing in the Georges Bank area of the North Atlantic Ocean. “The creation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument violated the core requirements of the Antiquities Act to limit protections to specific … Continue reading New England fishermen file lawsuit to restore their living, stop abuse of national monuments law
The White House released its final rule updating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the law governing permitting and environmental review for new federal projects. CEI Senior Fellow Mario Loyola said: “America’s infrastructure modernization is drowning in red tape. Policymakers of both parties know that reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act are urgently needed. Under President … Continue reading Final NEPA Rule Will Encourage Anti-Development Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Projects
Repeated power grabs by the Environmental Protection Agency have seriously imperiled the rights of property owners and must be dialed back, argued Americans for Prosperity Foundation in a Supreme Court brief today. The EPA’s strong-arm tactics have less to do with safeguarding the environment than with the agency’s desire for raw power over private land use, said … Continue reading Americans for Prosperity Foundation Files Supreme Court Brief in EPA Land Grab Case
Reps. Lauren Boebert (CO-03) and Tom Tiffany (WI-07) led 22 additional Members of Congress in a letter to Department of the Interior Secretary Haaland encouraging her to appeal a recent decision by an activist California judge that failed to follow the best available science and instead, through his decision, restored Endangered Species Act protections for … Continue reading Reps. Lauren Boebert and Tom Tiffany Lead Effort to Uphold Gray Wolf Science
U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.), today introduced legislation, known … Continue reading Capito, Republican Senators Introduce Bill to Clarify Biden Cannot Unilaterally Declare “Climate Emergency”
“Any reduction in lending by banks and credit unions to the agriculture sector – or to any sector that is disliked by its political opponents – would not only harm the businesses themselves, but directly harm consumers due to increased costs of food and energy that would inevitably occur as a result U.S. Sen. John … Continue reading New Biden green scheme cuts off bank accounts for farming, ranching
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) cautioned against the Biden administration’s moves to throttle the production of American oil and gas, especially as Louisianians are suffering under historic inflation and rising gas prices. Below are Kennedy’s remarks. “As I have said before, the problem is that the oil is in Louisiana, and Texas, and Oklahoma, and Kansas, … Continue reading Kennedy: Biden war on energy may do irreparable damage to economy, national security
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