Last Year the Federal Government Said This Species Did Not Need to Be Regulated, but Now They Are Going to Regulate Anyway
Last year the Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the greater sage grouse did not qualify for coverage under the Endangered Species Act (ESA),perhaps because the observed numbers of male…
The EPA Uses New Math to Justify Costly Global Warming Regulation
When calculating the future impacts of government action, the federal government has very specific rules about how the calculation should be done. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) clearly…
While Traveling This Labor Day, Remember This: TSA Expands Bureaucracy, Spending, and Regulation Without Improving Safety
There is an agency in Washington that spends over $7 billion per year and employs about 60,000 people nationwide, yet fails to do its one job 95% of the…
Tell the Obama Administration to Stop Using a 1970’s Relic to Pursue His Radical Environmental Agenda
Have you noticed how the price of electronics and appliances like TVs, refrigerators, computers, or cell phones have been continuous declining as a result of technological progress, but the cost…
EPA’s Dishonest Bookkeeping Misleads the American People
Have you ever heard of a school where students are given credit on a math test for an A on a history test? If that sounds preposterous to you, you…
Oppose the Obama Administration’s New Rules That Eliminate Financial Options for Low Income Americans
An estimated 10-12 million customers in the United States use short-term loan products each year. These customers tend to be lower income, the type of people who often cannot…
Obama Administration and Radical Environmentalists Seeking Massive Utah Land Grab
San Juan County, Utah is the poorest county in Utah and one of the poorest counties in the United States. The large majority of the land in the county is…
Illegal Federal Endangered Species Regulation Actually Harms Endangered Species
Last week, the Washington Cattlemen’s Association, with the support of the Pacific Legal Foundation, submitted a petition to the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) challenging a regulation from that…
Regulator-In-Chief: Obama Administration Has Issued 600 Regulations with Costs of $100 Million or More
Near the very end of President George W. Bush’s second term in January 2009, economist Veronique de Rugy challenged the assertion by then-President-elect Barack Obama that the two-term Republican…
The FDA’s New Overreaching Regulations on Vaping Products Harm Public Health and Destroy Innovative Small Businesses
On August 8, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new rules on vaping products go into effect. Federal law gives the FDA the power to regulate “tobacco products,” and…