Plans to Repeal the Clean Water Act
As a young EPA staffer, I worked with the congressional committee staffs on what is properly entitled the “Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1977 [...
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As a young EPA staffer, I worked with the congressional committee staffs on what is properly entitled the “Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1977 [...
Silly season continues. Yesterday, June 8, 2011, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK offered an amendment would threaten public health and...
A few minutes ago, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1229 by a vote of 263-163 , with every Republican and 28 Democrats voting to make drilling even...
Today, a little over a year after the BP Gulf oil disaster, the House of Representative awarded the oil industry two gifts. First, they prevented an attempt to...
Since 1913, the oil industry has feasted on a panoply of tax breaks including the oil depletion allowance and expensing of intangible drilling costs. Newer...
Late last week, a group of 34 Senators (including the entire Senate Democratic leadership) and 155 House members – enough to sustain a Presidential veto in...
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