The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first steps to increasing the regulation of ozone by publishing the new proposed  rule in the Federal Register today.  Click here for the actual 179 page document.  Comments on the rule, that would lower the allowable ozone threshold to 65-70 ppb and is estimated to result in all but three counties in Missouri becoming nonattainment areas, are due to the EPA by March 17, 2015.  We will be giving you further instructions on how

From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department:  The U.S. EPA has fined the U.S. Air Force $12,823 for violations of RCRA Underground Storage Tank regulations! The EPA has proven to be an agency much more interested in fining violators than helping folks comply with the environmental laws, but this really takes the cake!  Who will pay that $12,823?  American taxpayers. The U.S. Air Force exists to keep us safe, and defense is a core function of government that nearly ever

June 20 – As we told you last Friday, the Senate was expected to vote today on S.J. Res 37, a measure that would void the EPA’s Utility MACT regulation.  A vote for the measure would have sent the EPA back to the drawing board to come up with a regulation that would be attainable.  A vote against the resolution is a vote to support the Obama Administration’s EPA regulation that will, by the EPA’s own estimates, drive up utility costs for Missourians between 2.8% in eastern Mi