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Posts tagged as “regulation”

Mines Pres. Wilson, Tagged by Sandia Investigation, Urges Less Regulation

While the Department of Energy Inspector General was investigating School of Mines president Heather Wilson's involvement in illegal lobbying activities for the Sandia National Laboratories, Wilson was serving on a sequester-delayed advisory panel charged by Congress with reviewing and making…

Daugaard Forks Tongue on EPA Regulations, Funding for Roads and Schools

I must give John Tsitrian kudos for catching Governor Dennis Daugaard in a brilliant contradiction. In Tuesday's Rapid City Journal, Governor Daugaard responds to a question about South Dakota's weak regulations on uranium mining by saying, "I don't like the…

Jackley Backs Bogus GOP Propaganda with EPA-Coal Lawsuit

Here's an issue on which the Libertarians won't be able to help us with a nominee for attorney general: South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley threw us in with eleven other yahoo states suing to stop the federal government from…

DOJ Wins $179M to Clean up Harding County Uranium Site

Joe O'Sullivan reports that we're finally going to get around to cleaning up the abandoned Riley Pass uranium mine in Harding County... after letting toxic and radioactive debris sit exposed to the elements for fifty years: ...a tangled series of…

Sections of Keystone XL Installed with Over 50% Bad Welds

U.C. Berkeley professor emeritus and welder (!) Robert Bea says a bad-weld rate of 0.1% on high-risk projects is cause for concern. What's TransCanada's bad-weld rate on the Oklahoma-Texas leg of Keystone XL? Over 50%, according to warning letters the…