By Paul Driessen The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deepwater drilling, 3-dimension and 4-D seismic (the ability to visualize 3-D over many years), deep horizon horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, and other technological marvels have [...]

A $40,000.00 portrait of the former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has been finished.  NRD is hosting a caption contest. Comment either on this post, or the FB posting to enter the contest.  The winner will have the picture published and promoted by NRD along with a link to their blog or personal website.  Contest will run for a week, so [...]

-By Brad Tidwell This is Gina ‘Pinto’ McCarthy, Obama’s appointed replacement to head the Environmental Protection Agency. She thinks this stuff- HFO-1234yf (or Tetrafluoropropene)- is good for the environment, and would make a great car coolant. Looks harmless, right? Except it’s not. It can cause cars to explode when they get in accidents- which is pretty often. But exploding cars are just not [...]

By Rebekah Rast — Nine gas stations in the nation now have pumps with E15 gasoline. E15 is a blend of regular gasoline mixed with 15 percent ethanol.  The pumps are recognized by their black and orange labels. And that label is not something you want to ignore. In an effort to curb U.S. dependency on gasoline and oil — [...]

By Rick Manning — The Environmental Protection Agency revealed in response to a Freedom Of Information Act request by Americans for Limited Government that seventeen employees in the Agency do nothing but labor related activities at a cost of more than $1.6 million in annual salary. The FOIA response provides the names and salaries of each employee revealing an average [...]

By Mark A. Wohlschlegel II — In May of 2012, Americans for Limited Government filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) with the EPA regarding their regulation and corresponding law suit on the topic of coal-ash. This stemmed from our suspicion of the green groups taking advantage of the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA).  By this act, parties that [...]

By Rick Manning — The EPA added 8 new victims to it’s death toll today when Alpha Natural Resources announced that it would be closing 3 Virginia coal mines and 5 other mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania resulting in the destruction of 1,200 more coal mining jobs. This is just the latest in a long and steady string of [...]

By Bill Wilson — So much for the separation of powers. Thanks to federal court rulings, even if Mitt Romney prevails in Nov., he will be hard-pressed to unilaterally rein in regulatory overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The problems at the agency are fixable, but they will require decisive action by Congress and the president — and even [...]

By Paul Driessen — Seven score and nine years ago, President Lincoln resolved to take increased devotion to ensuring that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth. Yet, today, our lives are determined not so much by We the People, as by a distant central government, particularly increasingly powerful, unelected [...]

Great news. A Federal court has struck down an Obama administration EPA regulation thatwould have resulted in the closure of several coal-fired power plants. From The Hill: A federal court has struck down an Environmental Protection Agency rule that forces cuts in soot- and smog-forming power plant emissions that cross state lines, dealing a major blow to the White House’s [...]