The St. Louis Division of Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes the Kansas City area, has seized a record-breaking number of fentanyl pills in fiscal year 2023.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce highlights how the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Particulate Matter (PM2.5) air quality standards will cause permitting gridlock across the American economy.The report includes analysis about the impact of the 2023 wildfire season on particulate matter emissions, which was not examined by EPA. Fires alone are responsible for 43% of PM2.5 emissions, but are difficult for counties to abate. Due to the severity of the 2023 wildfire season, the number of U.S. counties out of compliance with EPA’s likely new rule would increase by 50%, which would result in strict new penalties on American businesses—large and small—and their communities.“From requiring small businesses, like restaurants, to install costly equipment and homeowners to replace wood fireplaces with natural gas logs, to mandating states to pave any unpaved roads, this rule will have profound impacts economy-w
TOPEKA (KSNT) – The battle with fentanyl is intensifying as time goes on. Since 2018, more than a quarter of a million people have died from fentanyl overdoses in the United States, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Annual fentanyl deaths have gone up each year and have more than doubled from 2019 […]
Last evening, Congressman Rudy Yakym (IN-02) and Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) introduced H.R. 6129, the Studying NEPA’s Impact on Projects Act, bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing excessive red tape and helping streamline the federal permitting process. This legislation would require the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to publish and present to Congress an annual report