The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has finalized the repeal of yet another Obama-era regulatory overreach, specifically rules that defined every stream, ditch, seasonal puddle and muddy hoof print as […]
Environmental Protection Agency
Laxalt Looks to Intervene in Case Challenging EPA Decision to Scrap Mining Regulation
By Daniel Rothberg, The Nevada Independent After the Environmental Protection Agency announced in December that it would not move forward on regulations for hardrock mines, six environmental groups took the […]
Nevada delegation must help pass legislation of curb EPA water grab
This past week the Environmental Protection Agency issued its final rule to “clarify” what waters of the U.S. are covered by the Clean Water Act of 1972, which originally was […]
Federal agencies are coming for our water
There may not be sufficient documentation to prove that Mark Twain ever said, “Whiskey is for drinking; water is fighting over,” but Nevada ranchers and farmers are having to fight […]
Nevada plants tops in reducing carbon output
Those onerous and costly Environmental Protection Agency rules requiring power plants in each state to cut carbon output by 30 percent from its 2005 level by 2030 should not be […]


