Michigan v. EPA: What’s Cost Got to Do with It
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Michigan v. EPA, a case that will decide whether the EPA properly decided to regulate mercury pollution from power plants. The problem…
Obama’s Private Army: Militarizing the Federal Agencies
Currently there are 73 federal agencies that have full-time armed officers with arresting authority. According to a 2008 report by the Department of Justice, there were 120,000 full-time…
You Will Never Guess What The EPA Might Regulate Next
It’s obvious the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has way too much money to play with. Following yesterday’s news that the EPA was funding research to reduce air pollution emissions…
Obama’s $181 billion in executive actions are being passed on to consumers through higher prices
Americans already face a $1.8 trillion regulatory burden. These heavy costs are passed on by businesses to consumers, who spend almost a quarter of their annual income complying with…
Five Regulatory Fights for 2015
We all know that Congress has some big ticket items on its agenda for next year – repealing ObamaCare, balancing the budget, reining the president’s executive authority, but receiving less…
Key Vote YES on Stopping the EPA’s Latest Property Rights Overreach
As one of our over 6.6 million FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote YES on the Waters of the…
No Need to File Paperwork: The EPA’s Newest Abhorrent Abuse of its Permitting Power
The Pebble Project would not only bring a new copper and gold mine to Alaska, it would bring an economic boom to the region with nationwide effects. Too bad that…
The IRS’ Lost Email Contagion
Precedent is a powerful thing. Once something has been established as acceptable behavior, there will inevitably be a flood of eager followers. That is why trailblazers get all the credit.
Keep the EPA’s Hands off Your Wages
UPDATE: FreedomWorks activists sent over 4,000 messages to the EPA to stop the proposed rule that would have given the agency the power to garnish the wages of private citizens.
The EPA’s New Water Rule Leaves the Economy High and Dry
When the Clean Water Act was first conceived, the EPA could only restrict entrepreneurs when they attempted to pollute bodies of water that were used by their fellow businesses, or…