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Federal mandates, real costs: EPA’s gas policy hits Coloradans at the pump
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Federal mandates, real costs: EPA’s gas policy hits Coloradans at the pump

By Michael Booth | The Colorado Sun The future of Colorado’s ozone-fighting reformulated gasoline is getting a lot more complicated this spring.  To recap:  The Front Range creates so much toxic ozone that we blew through EPA limits a long time ago. One sanction the EPA gave us for these “severe” violations is that in summer months, we must buy “reformulated gas,” or RFG, that creates less ozone-causing vapor.  Oil companies and Gov. Jared Polis say the benefits of RFG in fighting ozone are minimal, and the refining process costs consumers up to 50 cents more a gallon.  The EPA said no, the extra cost is only a few cents a gallon. Plus, the EPA said, while Suncor controls 40% of the gasoline market here, other gasoline companies would expand their RFG pipelines and ...
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Judge orders Trump EPA to release $20 billion in funding for green groups
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Judge orders Trump EPA to release $20 billion in funding for green groups

By Maydeen Merino | Washington Examiner A federal judge ordered the Trump Environmental Protection Agency to release $20 billion in climate grants that it has withheld, a major blow to the administration’s efforts to stop what it has called the improper awarding of money to nonprofit green groups. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction late Tuesday preventing the EPA from “unlawfully suspending or terminating” billions of dollars in climate money from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which the Trump administration has said distributed the funds without proper oversight. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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Zeldin: Trump administration to rewrite WOTUS rule
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Zeldin: Trump administration to rewrite WOTUS rule

By Jerry Hagstrom | The Fence Post Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced today that EPA will work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revise the definition of the Waters of the United States. At a news conference surrounded by Republican members of Congress, Zeldin said that the Trump administration wants to write a revised definition that “follows the law, reduces red tape, cuts overall permitting costs, and lowers the cost of doing business in communities across the country while protecting the nation’s navigable waters from pollution.” Zeldin said that the Trump administration wants to write a practical rule that will follow the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency and not be a “ping pong” in court decisio...
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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Moves to clear massive Biden-era agency backlog to improve air quality faster
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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Moves to clear massive Biden-era agency backlog to improve air quality faster

By Sean Moran | Breitbart EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced he would move to clear the hundreds of backlogged cases to clean air, saying the Biden administration focused on “ideological pursuits” rather than the agency’s “core mission.” The agency said it would commit to working with states and tribes to resolve the hundreds of backlogged State Implementation Plans (SIPs) and Tribal Implementation Plans (TIPs) the Biden-Harris administration could not or would not resolve. At the end of the Biden administration, there were 685 unresolved SIPs with 322 considered overdue. “The Biden Administration’s focus on ideological pursuits instead of the agency’s core mission and statutory duties resulted in a delay of air quality improvement,” the EPA administrator wrote in...
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EPA working with DOJ, FBI on NGO corruption after eight groups tied to ‘gold bars’ scheme
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EPA working with DOJ, FBI on NGO corruption after eight groups tied to ‘gold bars’ scheme

By Sean Moran | Breitbart Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin detailed on The Alex Marlow Show how the Biden administration protected $20 billion in “gold bars” meant for leftist NGOs, many of them with connections to the Biden administration. Zeldin sent shockwaves in mid-February after he had pledged to recover $20 billion in taxpayer funds that had been sent by the Biden administration to climate change projects and other pet projects of Democrat staffers. The EPA Administrator at the time likened it to “throwing gold bars off the Titanic,” saying that it was a “rush job with reduced oversight.” READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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Trump’s EPA chief: We have found the ‘gold bars’ Biden’s team hid – $20 billion set aside to thwart Trump
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Trump’s EPA chief: We have found the ‘gold bars’ Biden’s team hid – $20 billion set aside to thwart Trump

By Ben Zeisloft | The Western Journal EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed on Wednesday that staffers for former President Joe Biden established a $20 billion slush fund to advance their interests once President Donald Trump took office. Zeldin said in a video posted to X that an “extremely disturbing video” circulated two months ago showing a Biden appointee in the EPA admitting that the team was “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.” According to Zeldin, the “gold bars” were tax dollars moved out of the EPA as the Biden administration drew to a close. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WESTERN JOURNAL
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Bluey: Lee Zeldin hits the ground running at Environmental Protection Agency
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Bluey: Lee Zeldin hits the ground running at Environmental Protection Agency

By Rob Bluey | Commentary, Daily Signal Two years after a train derailment exposed residents of East Palestine, Ohio, to hazardous chemicals, the new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is making the village his first official visit Monday. Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman from Long Island, won his Senate confirmation vote Wednesday afternoon, spent Thursday and Friday meeting with agency employees, and now heads with Vice President JD Vance to the Ohio community still reeling from the catastrophic train crash on Feb. 3, 2023. Zeldin invited The Daily Signal and a half-dozen other reporters to the EPA’s headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue last week to preview his plans for the agency. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL Editor’s note: Opinions e...
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Trump picks Lee Zeldin to lead EPA — adding second NYer to cabinet
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Trump picks Lee Zeldin to lead EPA — adding second NYer to cabinet

By Steven Nelson | New York Post President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Rep. Lee Zeldin to serve as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, The Post can exclusively report. Zeldin, 44, served four terms as a Republican congressman repping Long Island before losing the 2022 New York governor’s race to Kathy Hochul by a surprisingly close margin. “I am deeply honored to have been asked by President Trump to serve in his Cabinet. As EPA Administrator, we will restore American energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, make the United States the global leader of Artificial Intelligence advancement, and slash the red tape holding back American workers from upward economic mobility,” Zeldin said in a statement to The Post. READ...
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Transition to reformulated gas in nine Front Range counties will result in price increase there. How high will it go?
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Transition to reformulated gas in nine Front Range counties will result in price increase there. How high will it go?

By Michael Booth | The Colorado Sun Keep an eye on gas prices in the next few weeks, Colorado, and you can watch a major policy battle play out between an extremely irritated Gov. Jared Polis and officials enforcing the federal Clean Air Act.  Colorado has a big problem with toxic ground-level ozone in the nine-county northern Front Range area that the Environmental Protection Agency has declared in “severe” violation of Clean Air Act ozone limits. When an area hits “severe,” the Clean Air Act requires all gas stations in that area to begin selling “reformulated” gas during the summer ozone season, beginning June 1.  Reformulated gas, according to the EPA, can cut back on ozone-causing emissions because it’s denser and doesn’t evaporate as quickly in hot weather. Po...
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