Today, Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) demanded the withdrawal of a proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule under which the agency would garnish Americans’ paychecks to collect fines. The EPA, which quietly published the rule in the federal register last week, claims that the rule is not large enough to be subject to a public comment period, and is attempting to quietly Continue reading
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Tipton Condemns New EPA Rule to Garnish Americans’ Paychecks
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Multi Million Dollar Project At Craig Station Announced
Tri-State Generation and Transmission inked a settlement agreement with Wild Earth Guardians today. The agreement filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit calls for Tri-State to install state of the art air pollution controls to reduce haze pollution from the company’s 1,300 megawatt Craig coal-fired power plant. Continue reading
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Residents Encouraged to Attend Rally at EPA Hearing
Moffat County Commissioner John Kinkaid is encouraging anyone who can make it, to attend a rally outside the EPA hearings in Denver July 29th and 30th. The Environmental Protection Agency is holding hearings on its proposed carbon emissions rules, standards the coal industry says will cost thousands of jobs and hike energy Continue reading
EPA Adds Hearings But Not in Moffat County
The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to hold extra public hearings on its new carbon emissions rules, but none of those hearings will be in Moffat County, or any coal producing county. Instead, the EPA will hold an extra day of hearings in each of the cities already on the schedule. Hearings will now be in Continue reading
Nine States Join Lawsuit Against EPA; Colorado Not One of Them
Nine states have joined Murray Energy Company’s lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over new carbon pollution rules. Murray Energy has called the standards “illegal, irrational, and radical”. Several states agree, and have joined Murray’s lawsuit to block the rules. Colorado is NOT one of those states. Continue reading
McCarthy Says EPA Lost Emails in Computer Crash
Reports say another federal agency has lost emails requested by a congressional committee due to a computer crash. The Environmental Protection Agency’s director, Gina McCarthy told the House Oversight Committee that she can’t Continue reading
Tipton Questions Witnesses on Harmful Effects of Water Grab
Yesterday, Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) questioned witnesses on the impact that the proposed U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Groundwater Directive and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waters of the U.S. rule will have on Western water users including farmers and ranchers, ski areas, municipalities and others during a Continue reading
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Supreme Court Says EPA Overstepped its Authority
The Supreme Court agrees the Obama Administration has over reached its authority with a certain aspect of the new carbon emissions rules put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the majority opinion that they hold “that EPA exceeded its statutory authority when it interpreted Continue reading
Tipton Questions USDA’s Water Claims
Yesterday, Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) questioned U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Robert Bonnie during a House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing to review the Interpretive Rule Regarding the Applicability of Clean Water Act Agricultural Exemptions. During the hearing, Tipton contested Bonnie’s claims that agriculture producers’ access to water would be Continue reading
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EPA Sued Over New Emissions Rules
Murray Energy Corporation has filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over new carbon emission standards. The lawsuit claims the rules are “illegal, irrational, and destructive cap and tax regulations”. The lawsuit was filed in Washington D.C. yesterday, the same day the rules Continue reading
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EPA Publishes Carbon Emissions Rules in Federal Register
The Environmental Protection Agency published their latest Carbon Emissions Rules in the Federal Register today. That means public comment on the proposed rules starts now. The rules state that coal fired power plants must cut carbon emissions by 30 percent be the year 2030. The regulations seem to be a Continue reading
Tipton Warns that EPA Wage Garnishing Idea Not Abandoned
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