Tell Senator Pryor to Stop the EPA

During his 2008 campaign, President Obama promised, “if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them.” It’s now 2012, and here’s how he’s doing it. The EPA’s new Utility MACT regulation has the stated purpose of reducing mercury emissions at power plants, but there is no [...]

Energy & Environment Issues

AFP-AR Letter of Opposition: Extending the Federal Wind Production Tax Credit

October 04, 2012 JEnergy & Environment

Hardworking Arkansans deserve an energy policy that is based on market principles, not one that is based on extending handouts to politically connected industries. Enacting policies that threaten electrical grid reliability and drive up energy prices is not why they sent their elected representatives to Washington.

Senate fails to stop FCC power grab

November 10, 2011 JEnergy & Environment

Boozman voted to stop it and Pryor voted to allow the government to regulate the Internet. Via AFP VP of Policy Phil Kerpen:

On a 46-52 party line vote today, the Senate failed to stop the FCC's net neutrality power grab, the first government regulation of broadband Internet access in a decade. This regulation will now take effect on November 20, undermining investment and job creation and setting the stage for more pervasive Internet regulation in the future. The order is being challenged in court, however, and is likely to be struck down.

That's because the FCC did this with no legal authority, as the DC Circuit already found recently in Comcast v. FCC. Congress never passed legislation authorizing these regulations, and in fact all 95 candidates who campaigned on the idea last year lost. Perfect record of failure.

ICYMI: Higher Gas Prices Zap Shreds of Confidence

June 13, 2011 JEnergy & Environment

Via TalkBusiness.net:

If there was a glimmer of hope found in our first quarter Arkansas Consumer Confidence Report, our second quarter survey may have dashed it.

Rising gasoline prices and fear of higher costs on goods and services have consumers hunkered down.

Here’s the Memo: Facts Matter

June 07, 2011 JEnergy & Environment

President Obamas phony accounting on the auto industry bailout

Chrysler has repaid every dime and more of what it owes American taxpayers for their support during my presidency.

So who’s gonna buy a $50 lightbulb?

May 17, 2011 JEnergy & Environment

Over regulation sucks. End of story.

LED bulbs hit 100 watts as federal ban looms

Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January.

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