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…
Posts tagged as “regulation”
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…
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…
The South Dakota Association of Rural Water Systems July newsletter offers a trio of articles that might make conservatives think that liberals have taken over the water works. Or maybe providing the most basic need to thousands of South Dakota…
Pat Powers parrots another press release from Rep. Kristi Noem claiming that she led the House in passing the Reliable Home Heating Act. Given that the bill, sponsored by Senator John Thune and co-sponsored by Senator Tim Johnson, coasted through…
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…
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…
If you can't beat 'em, regulate 'em! Senate Bill 120 is the latest effort of the South Dakota Legislature to throttle the Affordable Care Act. It would impose background checks, exams, fees, and complicated regulations to make it harder for…