Regulation Reality Tour Coming to Florida
President Obama is at it again, trying to force intrusive global warming regulations on the American people without a vote of Congress. That’s why we’re taking the Regulation Reality Tour on the road again to Florida.
The Environmental Protection Agency is ignoring the public outrage against the unpopular cap-and-trade tax scheme and is trying to impose [...]
Supreme Court Rejects Climate Torts, Doubles Down on EPA Power Grab
This week the U.S. Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision in American Electric Power v. Connecticut, resolving whether states can sue greenhouse gas emitters under a theory of common law nuisance. By a count of 8-0, the Court overturned a ruling from the Second Circuit and held that these lawsuits are improper and cannot [...]
Is the NAT GAS Act an EPA Trojan horse?
The EPA’s New Move
Phil Kerpen
June 9, 2011 4:00 A.M.
The debate over the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011, or NAT GAS Act, has focused mostly on the question of whether the federal government should use hefty subsidies — $64,000 per truck — to interfere with the free-market allocation of resources. On [...]
End the EPA Power Grab Completely
June 6, 2011 10:33 AM
By Phil Kerpen
Vice President, Policy, Americans for Prosperity
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should not just delay but outright end its greenhouse gas rules and other regulations designed to achieve a backdoor implementation of cap-and-trade. The American people decisively rejected energy taxes and rationing in the 2010 election, yet the administration [...]
AFP Statement on EPA Boiler MACT Delay
AFP VP for Policy Phi Kerpen released the following statement in response to EPA’s recent delay of the boiler MACT rules:
“The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to delay the implementation of the boiler MACT rules is a tacit admission that the rule will have a profound negative impact on the economy. Although the EPA attempted [...]
Chris Christie Strikes a Major Blow Against Cap-and-Trade
By Phil Kerpen
Published May 26, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Last summer, I wrote a piece in this space that posed a question: “Will New Jersey’s Chris Christie Do the Right Thing On Cap-and-Trade?” Today we got our answer, and it is a resounding yes!
In a press conference moments ago in Trenton, Christie announced his [...]
Thanks to Folks In the Senate, the EPA’s Power Grab Continues
By Phil Kerpen
Today, the U.S. House is expected to vote by a wide margin to stop the EPA’s job-crushing backdoor energy taxes.
Unfortunately it was a different story yesterday in the Senate, where 64 senators agreed the EPA must be stopped, but only 50 voted for the amendment that would actually stop them. The other [...]
Halt cap-and-trade end run
McCaskill should join effort to put EPA in its place.
BY DAN SHAUL AND PHIL KERPEN
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Will Sen. McCaskill stand up to the EPA, protect Missouri jobs and take responsibility as the legislative branch of government?
Read the op-ed at Columbia Daily Tribune.
Take Action! Call Sen. McCaskill at one of these numbers and tell her [...]
No rubber stamp for EPA’s agenda
By PHIL KERPEN | 3/29/11 5:19 AM EDT
For the past two weeks, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has been scrambling to prevent Congress from doing its job and standing up to the Environmental Protection Agency’s global warming power grab.
Now he has a new way to rubber stamp the EPA’s agenda, while providing political cover [...]
Phil Kerpen in the Daily Caller: Who wants to be a U. S. senator?
The U.S. Constitution is crystal clear on where legislative power resides.
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