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Tightening Ozone Standards: Another EPA Assault On Louisiana

Four members of the Louisiana congressional delegation are up in arms with the Environmental Protection Agency today after a regulatory edict on ozone levels threatens to crush the state’s economy. The four – Reps. Bill Cassidy, Steve Scalise, Charles Boustany... (Continue reading)

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Want To Solve The Budget Crisis, Gov. Jindal? Start Here.

This showed up in our inbox today… Governor Bobby Jindal Announces the Appointment of Faith Miller to the Louisiana Board of Massage Therapy BATON ROUGE - Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced the appointment of Faith Miller to the Louisiana Board... (Continue reading)

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Jindal Announces BP Seafood Deal

From a release this morning from Gov. Jindal’s office comes news of a pretty good-sized win on the BP/seafood marketing front. It sounds as though the Governor got pretty much everything he was looking for from BP on the question... (Continue reading)

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UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Angelle Attributes Party Change To Anti-Energy Bias

Today at the Louisiana Republican Leadership Summit, Scott Angelle spoke in detail about his party switch.  Echoing the theme of a former speech made in Lafayette on economic recovery, Angelle described his decision as motivated by the desire of national Democrats... (Continue reading)

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Activists Target Oil Industry – AGAIN

While the offshore oil-and-gas industry is fighting for its survival under an outright shut down of all operations in the Gulf of Mexico, there is growing concern over another major issue that could result in the destruction of the entire... (Continue reading)

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The (Baton Rouge) Advocate/LSU Nexus

For a year and more we’ve tried to figure out what was the connection between Louisiana State University (LSU) and The (Baton Rouge) Advocate that caused that newspaper’s continual flacking for the state’s flagship university. There was yesterday in The... (Continue reading)

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Obamacare A Time Bomb For Small Business; Must Be Defused Soon

Many small businesses were opposed to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”), because they weren’t convinced that it would protect patients or make health care more affordable. The consensus view was that it was a teeming stew... (Continue reading)

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Once Again, Feldman Explodes Administration Offshore Drilling Policy

Last week, when the Department of the Interior announced to great fanfare that they had lifted their ruinous deepwater drilling moratorium – despite concerns that behind the facade of doing away with a formal drilling ban there would be a... (Continue reading)

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Moratorium Lifted? Color Us Unimpressed.

Amid considerable fanfare today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the Obama administration is lifting the moratorium on deepwater oil exploration. Yay. This is the same Interior Department which lifted a moratorium on shallow-water drilling in May. Since then, it has... (Continue reading)

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Cassidy Demands Hearing Into De-Facto Shallow-Water Moratorium

Human Events today has a story on Rep. Bill Cassidy’s efforts to shed some light on the Obama administration’s unspoken halt to Gulf oil exploration in shallow water… Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a member of the House Natural Resources Committee,... (Continue reading)

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