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Posts tagged as “regulation”

PUC Candidates Field Wildly Biased Coal Question at State Fair Debate

Hey, look at that! Public Utilities Commission candidate Nick Nemec posted the complete video of last Saturday's State Fair PUC candidates' debate in Huron, South Dakota: Now the South Dakota Farmers Union hosted this debate, so according to Rep. Kristi…

GOP Platform Draft: “Modernize”, Privatize, Plutocratize!

Immediately after Mitt Romney's middle-abandoning selection of Paul Ryan as running mate, the National Republican Congressional Committee issued these guidelines for spinning Ryan's plan to destroy Medicare and other entitlements: "Do not say: "˜entitlement reform,' "˜privatization,' "˜every option is on…

EPA Under-Regulates CAFOs, Not Fighting Water Pollution Hard Enough

The running Republican narrative is that the Obama Administration, embodied in its fullest evil in the Environmental Protection Agency, is out to regulate every man, woman, and child out of business. Wait a minute: Four years after the U.S. Government…

Noem Lies from House Floor to Pass Dust Legislation

Rep. Kristi Noem got her embarrassing, myth-based, no-jobs dust bill through the House last week. She's already lied about the health effects of the rural dust she wants to exempt from EPA regulations. Last week she lied from the floor…

Noem Dust Bill to Cost Taxpayers $10 Million

I prefer not to let my blogging be molded by party headquarters, but the South Dakota Dems notice that, in the unlikely event of its enactment, Congresswoman Kristi Noem's smokescreen anti-EPA dust bill will cost taxpayers $10 million. But don't…

Noem Ban on Imaginary Regulations Heads for House Dust-Up Thursday

I should be analyzing Governor Daugaard's budget proposal instead of chasing Republicans chasing bogeymen. (CenturyLink had an Internet outage for over six hours yesterday afternoon and evening; Steve! Fix it!) Stay tuned: I'll watch the video and offer some thoughts…