Embattled EPA Director has Resigned
President Donald Trump has accepted the resignation of his embattled EPA Director Scott Pruitt. On Twitter Trump wrote: "I have...
Bad Policy Harming Brains
By Moms Against Fluoridation, Special for USDR Is the rampant increase of brain and behavioral issues such as cognitive deficits, autistic...
Reduce Your Impact on Climate Change Now
By Ellen Moyer, Special for USDR This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that 2016 was the second-hottest...
Sort of Protecting the Environment
By Environmental Justice Health Alliance, Special for USDR The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued updated rules for the 12,500+...
Trouble With the EPA and False Accusations Surfaces
By Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, Special for USDR The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness states that EPA's new "preliminary" ecological risk assessment...
Sen. McCain Receives Support for his Latest Report
By CAGW, Special for USDR Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) praised Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for exposing more than...
US House Votes to Block EPA’s Harmful Energy Policies
By USDR. Today, Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) voted in favor of two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval of the Environmental Protection...
Power Plant Rule to put the Lights Out on Small Business
By Will Newton, NFIB/Texas Executive Director, Special for USDR Ask any child who has recently sat in a...
Circuit Court Rules Against Overreaching EPA Power Grab
By USDR U.S. Representative Will Hurd (R-TX) released the following statement regarding Sixth Court of Appeals’ ruling putting a...
How the EPAs New Rules can Affect You
By Environmental Policy Analysis, Special for USDR The Environmental Policy Alliance is launching a new ad today pushing back against the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed...
Obama’s Energy Policy Hurts Consumers Without Helping Planet
By PACE, Special for USDR The Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) issued a statement today that criticized the Environmental...
Obama Energy Policy Offends Everyone
By Bipartisan Policy Center, Special for USDR BPC President Jason Grumet made the following statement on the release...
New Ozone Regs will Devastate Chicago Business Owners
By CRS, Special for USDR A new report released today by the Center for Regulatory Solutions (CRS), a project...
House Votes to Stem Onerous Global Warming Rules
By USDR Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015 to protect...
Families and Small Businesses Minor Win in the Supreme Court
By USDR Congressman Kevin Brady, (R-TX) released the following statement on the Michigan v. EPA ruling. In a narrow...
Call to Protect Consumers from the EPA
By API, Special for USDR. EPA must do more to ensure Americans have access to fuels they want and can...
EPA’s War on States?
By NMA, Special for USDR National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn today issued the following statement...
Small Business Optimism Suffers Across-the-Board Declines for 1st Time Since Sept. 2001
By MRCTV, Special for USDR The Small Business Optimism Index declined 2.8 points to 95.2 in March as all...
‘We’ll Observe Earth Day When the EPA Observes the Law,’ Small Business Federation Declares
By MRCTV, Special for USDR. “We’ll observe Earth Day when the EPA observes the law,” the National Federation of Independent...
Huge Financial Burden Comes with New Ozone Rule
By USDR An update of the landmark study conducted by National Economic Research Associates (NERA) Economic Consulting and commissioned...
New EPA Standards Could Harm Manufacturing
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New EPA Standards Could Harm Manufacturing
By USDR The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement in response to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
New pain for seniors resulting from EPA ‘Climate Crusade,’ says AMAC
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Urban Air Initiative Calls New EPA Emission Models Flawed
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'Climate Action' Advocates for Worse Poverty in Georgia
By Tanvi Acharya, Associate Editor for USDR Hundreds of advocates from...
EPA Regulation Supporters Defend Electric Bill Increase
By USDR On June 2nd, President Obama announced new EPA regulations that would impose significant restrictions on power plants. Last...
EPA's Climate Rule Erects Structural Barrier to Economic Recovery
By Tanvi Acharya, Associate...
NAM: New EPA Ozone Regulations Could Be Costliest in U.S. History
By USDR A new study by NERA Economic Consulting and commissioned by the National Association of...
Is the EPA killing the U.S. economy?
By Frank V. Vernuccio, Jr, Special for USDR The Presidents’ carbon emissions program was released by the White...
New EPA Regs Issued Under Obama Are 38 Times as Long as Bible
By USDR Since Jan. 20, 2009, when President Barack Obama took office, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published...
EPA Hypocrisy on Climate Change
By USDR EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is flying around the country this week to "ask Americans to act on climate change...
EPA Admits, New Regulations Unjustifiable
By USDR Seven months after being subpoenaed by Congress, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy conceded that her agency does not have -...
Is the EPA Trying to Harm Sick Patients?
By AAPS, Special for USDR The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting older Americans with asthma, metabolic...
Congress vs. EPA?
By USDR Sen. James Inhofe says he'll force Congressional review of any new EPA regulations relating to the Clean Air Act from going...
EPA Video Contest Teaches Budding Child-Activists to Worry About 'Climate Change'
By USDR The Environmental Protection Agency is co-sponsoring a "climate change video contest" that asks students, ages 11-14:"...
Ex-EPA Official Testifies of Agency Plan to 'Modify DNA of the Capitalist System'
By USDR Well, if anyone has beef with the new regulations coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency,...
Pollution Law Circumvents Legislative Power
By USDR Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute criticized EPA’s proposed Carbon Pollution Standard, a regulation which would effectively...
"The President Just Made that Up"
By USDR Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told a Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee hearing today that...