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The Washington Post Solyndra: A bad bet Obama should regret October 6, 2011

ONCE THE OBAMA administration's paragon of a clean-energy future, Solyndra has gone bankrupt, taking a $527 million Energy Department-guaranteed loan with it. President Obama, however, has no regrets. "Hindsight is always 20-20," he told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News. "It went through the regular review process. And people felt like this was a good bet." Solyndra didn't pan out, Mr. Obama conceded, but that's the sort of risk the United States must take...

House Republicans are continuing to fight back against job-destroying regulations with votes scheduled this week on two bills that will modify and improve EPA's recent boiler and cement MACT rules that for many facilities are not achievable. H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory Relief Act, and H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act, will require EPA to re-propose the rules so that standards and timelines are actually achievable and impose the least burdens on job creators, consistent with President Obama's recent executive order on improving regulations. Speaker of...

Wall Street Journal Editorial

Obama has the power to delay new rules that will shut down 8% of all U.S. power generation.

Since everyone has a suggestion or three about what President Obama can do to get the economy cooking again, here's one of ours: Immediately suspend the Environmental Protection Agency's bid to reorganize the U.S. electricity industry, and impose a moratorium on EPA rules at least until hiring and investment rebound for an extended period.

The EPA is currently pushing an unprecedented rewrite of air-pollution rules in...

Editorial: Revise EPA rules for cement plantsLoss of direct and indirect jobs would negatively hit already ailing economy if rules are not revisedAugust 12, 2011

The EPA has forged a set of rules governing emissions from cement manufacturing plants that could dramatically reduce the number of plants in the United States.

Fortunately, a bipartisan coalition of House members has produced legislation that would require the agency to take a more realistic approach to regulation. It should be adopted.

The legislation has the support of House Energy...