Ozone Rule Would Kill 7.3 Million Jobs, Raise Costs Reports indicate that the Obama administration will soon finalize a new job-killing environmental regulation.  Earlier this year, just two years after a significant adjustment to the ground-level ozone standard, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed lowering the limit from the cu [...]  More

Democrats, Big Labor, and Radical Environmentalists Plot Rule Changes for Post-Election Climate Bill White House climate czar Carol Browner recently floated the prospect of Congress passing climate change legislation—a national energy tax—during a lame-duck session sometime after November 2, 2010.  Conventional wisdom suggests th [...]  More

Carol Browner: Liability cap increase “will mean that you only have large companies.” White House climate czar Carol Browner has admitted that Democrat legislation moving through Congress to eliminate the cap on liability for oil spills would effectively bar small and independent U.S. energy firms from being able to explore for natura [...]  More

According to a new study by the nonpartisan American Council for Capital Formation, cap-and-tax legislation such as the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill or the Kerry-Lieberman proposal in the Senate would amount to a national energy tax that particularly harms the Midwest, especially Michigan as detailed in the study.  Other states that rely o [...]  More

by Rep. Gregg Harper (MS) For nearly two months, oil has been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, affecting not only Gulf Coast states’ environments but their economies as well. BP and the federal government have been working to stop the stream of oil and to minimize the environmental impact of th [...]  More

CBO Confirms Other Negative Impacts for Families and Communities According to a May 5, 2010, CBO report, under cap-and-tax legislation such as the House-passed H.R. 2454 or the Kerry-Lieberman Senate bill, “some people would lose health insurance coverage associated with their previous employer” after they lose their job due to the nat [...]  More

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (CA) and Rep. Steve Scalise (LA) spoke with bloggers today about the cap and tax energy bill being debated in Congress currently. Scalise participated in the hearings last week, questioning 60 professional witnesses and presenting statements on why the bill is wrong for America.   “The more people see the negative i [...]  More

After three days of hearing on the cap and tax global warming legislation last week, Republicans are billing it a "national energy tax," according to a piece in the Hill today. Almost everyone who testified in the hearings agreed that the bill would raise gas and energy prices across the board, costing American families more of their hard-earned m [...]  More

*This post originally published on Townhall.com by Rep. Steve Scalise (LA) President Obama is proposing a “cap and trade” energy tax that will raise utility costs on every American family to generate $646 billion in new taxes, while shipping millions of American jobs to foreign countries. I am very concerned about how the liberals in [...]  More

6:52 p.m. The Democrat Energy Plan Cap and Trade: Caps Economic Growth and Trades Jobs Overseas 6:25 p.m. Rep. Michael Burgess on the consequences of "cap and tax" legislation: President Obama and Democrat leaders in Congress expect to raise billions of dollars through an unprecedented “cap and tax” proposal.  With this money [...]  More

House Leader John Boehner appeared yesterday on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, saying legislators should beware of "trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see." Boehner applauded last week's hurricane of taxpayer tea parties and attended one in Bakersfield, California. "...when I talk to people at these rallies, it was pretty clea [...]  More

Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC) has been stirring the pot lately, with her explosive House floor ventures and determined messages on fiscal responsibility. She made her first appearance today on Right Wing News, ready as usual, to tell it like it is: Instead of taking a steady, measured approach to these outrageous AIG millionaire bonuses, Congress did th [...]  More