Efforts by Republicans in the U.S. House to block funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Enforcement Division didn’t get far as they were defeated late Wednesday. Here’s how Politico’s Morning Energy Report laid out what happened: “On Wednesday night , lawmakers voted down some Republican amendments targeting EPA – including ones to block …
Oklahoma is among nearly 30 states urging the Denver Federal Appeals Court to revive the U.S. Chamber of Commerce challenge to the federal clean water rule. In filings, the states say the court is not bound by a Sixth Circuit ruling that circuit courts hold jurisdiction over the claims. The states also want the 10th …
It was a late Tuesday night for U.S. Representatives as they worked on the $32 billion Interior-EPA spending bill. Forty-five amendments were handled by the time the gavel was sounded, according to a report from Politico’s Morning Energy Report. One item that did pass was a move to clamp down on monitoring water quality in …
How did a Guatamalen-born businessman swindle the U.S. out of millions of dollars under a government program aimed at increasing the production of biodiesel fuel? Bloomberg reports how Philip Rivkin, founder of a phony company named Green Diesel was able to do it, and now sits in a U.S. prison in Texas where he’s serving …
The city of Tulsa is getting a $300,000 federal grant to clean up old pollution sites known as Brownfield locations. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee noted how Tulsa has used Brownfield grants in the past to clean up sites that led to the construction of the BOK …
Updating the legal fight that 24 states have with the Environmental Protection Agency over the agency’s carbon emissions reduction plan on new power plants, the states are asking the D.C. Circuit to review EPA’s rejection of their plea. It was last fall when the states filed lawsuits challenging the President’s environmental agenda and his signature climate …
The EPA Must Respect the Supreme Court’s Authority Harry C. Alford | The Hill June 29, 2016 On June 9, 2016, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), following up on an earlier …
Coming this week in Washington, D.C.—–a hearing by a U.S. Senate subcommittee into the EPA’s enforcement and compliance programs. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S,.D.) will chair the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight hearing on June 29. The official hearing is called “Oversight of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
No Oklahoma Senators are among them, but 39 U.S. Senators have sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy urging her agency to ensure the final 2017 Renewable Fuel Standard rule promotes growth in the U.S. rather than overseas. The 2017 proposal calls on refiners to blend 14.8 billion gallons of …
An investigation by Rep. Steve Russell and others on the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has produced more than 30,000 pages of internal records into the EPA’s Waters of the U.S. Rule. “We stand for openness and transparency,” said Chairman Jason Chaffetz. “I think the American people have a right to see these …
