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EPA Director Disappointed but Fighting Back on Court Ruling
While dozens of states and hundreds of members of Congress are fighting the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Gina McCarthy, head of the Environmental Protection Agency is fighting back.
Speaking in Houston, Texas on Wednesday, McCarthy admitted she was disappo…
Lankford Explains Filing of Briefing Fighting EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Yes, it is about federal overreach. It’s what U.S. Senator James Lankford tells OK Energy Today as he and all members of the Oklahoma Congressional delegation joined others in the House and Senate in supporting the legal fight by Oklahoma and dozens of…
Oklahoma’s Congressional Delegation Joins Lawsuit Against EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Everyone of Oklahoma’s members in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate are among the 205 members of Congress who have filed legal briefs in federal court in support of a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency over its controversial Clean Pow…
WOTUS Decision to be Made by federal Court in Cincinnati
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati says it will rule on the challenges of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the U.S. or Clean Water Rule. In a 2-1 ruling, the judges said they had the jurisdiction to hear the numerous la…
EPA’s Secret Emails on Drafting Clean Power Plan
Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only government official to use private email to get around the public watchdogs observing how government works, or is supposed to work. So was Michael Goo, the Environmental Protection Agency’s former Associate Administrator…
Latest on Oklahoma’s Lawsuit Challenging EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Oklahoma and the dozens of other states who sued the federal government in a challenge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan have urged a Washington, D.C. federal court to strike down the rule. They made a joint opening brief in th…
What Others Say about U.S. Supreme Court Delay of Clean Power Plan
What others are saying about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to stay the controversial Clean Power Plan of the Environmental and Protection Agency.
Isaac Orr, a research fellow of Energy and Environment Policy at the Heartland Institute, a free-mar…
Kansas and Nebraska Fight EPA Over Vehicle Emissions Model
The states of Kansas and Nebraska presented oral arguments Thursday before a D.C. Circuit panel in their fight against the Environmental Protection Agency’s new vehicle emissions model discouraging the use of ethanol in gasoline. The two states contend…
EPA Administrator Taken to the Wood Shed over WOTUS
In case you missed it! Gina McCarthy, head of the Environmental Protection Agency was taken to the woodshed in a recent appearance before the U.S. House Agriculture committee.
She was scolded and accused of violating federal law in the implementation…
AG Optimistic About Supreme Court Stay on EPA’s Clean Power Plan
An optimistic-sounding Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt responded to the actions this week of the U.S. Supreme Court to put a hold on what some consider to be the backbone of President Obama’s Green efforts—the Clean Power Plan.
“We are convin…