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FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2014 file photo, an American Ethanol label is shown on a NASCAR race car gas tank at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The Obama administration is proposing to reduce the amount of ethanol blended in the nation's gasoline, a blow to renewable fuel companies that have pushed to keep high volumes of their product flowing into drivers' gas tanks. The move is unlikely to mean much for consumers or prices at the pump. (AP Photo/Randy Holt, File)

EDITORIAL: Renewable fuels should go to market, not EPA

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. in this 2014 file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

EPA’s renewable fuels push has unleashes bipartisan backlash

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks in Washington in this Nov. 19, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

JOSEPH CURL: Obama’s EPA Clean Water Act goes after the farmers

By Joseph Curl

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2015 file photo Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than 117 million Americans. Republicans in Congress say the rule issued this week goes too far and could even subject puddles and ditches to regulation in what GOP lawmakers call a massive overreach of government power. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

EDITORIAL: EPA’s new clean water standard a threat to American farms

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Biofuels mandate mess: New EPA ethanol standards under fire

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Democrats join GOP to fight Obama admin’s new rule on streams, creeks

By Joseph Curl - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama signs documents in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, designating Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado, a 21,000-acre site along the Arkansas River popular for whitewater rafting a national monument. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CURL: Obama admin asserts dominion over creeks, streams, wetlands, ditches — even big puddles

By Joseph Curl

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy (Associated Press) **FILE**

EPA expands powers over land use in bid to control water pollution

By Ben Wolfgang and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Flood waters rush in Johnson Creek just outside of Six Flags in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, May 10, 2015. A strong line of storms moved through the Dallas-Fort Worth area Sunday morning and forecasters issued tornado watches through Sunday evening for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota. (Max Faulkner/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram via AP) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST); INTERNET OUT

DAREN BAKST: Water, water everywhere … not a drop unregulated

The Washington Times

A plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., on Jan. 20, 2015. The Obama administration's hotly debated plan to cut the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide coming out of the nation’s power plants will save about 3,500 lives a year from also reducing other types of pollutions, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/4/study-cutting-carbon-dioxide-saves-3500-us-lives-a/" target="blank">a new independent study concludes</a>. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Cutting carbon dioxide saves 3,500 U.S. lives a year: study

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Some of Mr. Obama's most ardent supporters say they simply cannot go along with the administration's increasingly ambitious program to combat global warming. (Associated Press)

Obama climate change agenda rejected by blacks, Hispanics over concerns about poor

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks through a solar array at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Friday, April 3, 2015, to speak about clean energy and the jobs numbers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama climate change rules could cost 300,000 jobs, report warns

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy holds up a pen before signing new emission guidelines during an announcement of a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, Monday, June 2, 2014, at EPA headquarters in Washington. In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan Monday that cuts carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third over the next 15 years, but pushes the deadline for some states to comply until long after President Barack Obama leaves office. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: Halting the EPA’s power grab

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, said that it would be best to wait for the resolution of legal challenges to the EPA's Clean Power Act before implementing the plan. (Associated Press)

GOP calls for temporary halt to EPA’s Clean Power Plan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Inhaler Saves Environmental Agenda Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CHRIS HORNER: EPA agenda now focusing on clean air

By Chris Horner

In this June 19, 2014, bison graze near a stream in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (AP Photo/Robert Graves, File)

DREW JOHNSON: New emission rules would choke U.S. economy

By Drew Johnson

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy talks about the cooperation needed for building water infrastructure during the commemoration of a flood-control project in Corrales, N.M., on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. McCarthy said the project is aimed at alleviating flooding concerns while keeping sediment from reaching the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

ERNEST ISTOOK: In war on pollution, EPA can’t admit we’re winning

By Ernest Istook

We’re winning the war on pollution yet EPA claims we’re losing

By Ernest Istook - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol building is seen through the columns on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, May 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: Congress should rein in EPA

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy confers with an aide as she prepares to address the Natural Resources Committee session during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Subpoena proper after EPA chief Gina McCarthy deletes nearly 6,000 text messages, experts testify

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times