Tag: Lamar Smith

"How can we know that the agency isn't getting rid of records it is required to preserve?" Bridenstine said. (AP Photo)

Bridenstine challenges environmental agency on deleted text messages, emails

Ethan Barton · March 26, 2015 8:10 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy listens to reporters' questions during a meeting with media in the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See residence in Rome earlier this year. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Energy and Environment

House science panel subpoenas 5,000 text messages to and from Gina McCarthy

Ethan Barton · March 25, 2015 5:15 pm

A letter to Environmental Protection AgencyÂ AdministratorÂ Gina McCarthy fromÂ House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar SmithÂ statedÂ "If EPA continues to withhold emails, text messages and other documents from the committee, I will have no alternative but to consider the use of compulsory process to obtain the requested documents and information."Â (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images file)

House committee demands withheld text messages, emails from EPA’s McCarthy

Ethan Barton · March 9, 2015 6:10 pm

House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith wants to know how and why a federal agency gave nearly a million tax dollars to a project studying how to target political speech on Twitter. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

House science committee chairman challenges NSF ‘Truthy Project’ funding

Mark Tapscott · November 11, 2014 3:00 pm

Under the proposed rule, waters directly connected to rivers and streams would fall under federal regulation. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

GOP: Come clean on water rule

Zack Colman · August 27, 2014 8:09 pm

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas is holding a hearing Thursday on the reliability, or lack thereof, of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Will mainstream media cover the House committee hearing on the IPCC?

Mark Tapscott · May 28, 2014 2:06 pm

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration infrared satellite Images shows the outer bands of Hurricane Katrina, well ashore on the northern Gulf coast and the center of the storm about 165 miles, south-southeast of New Orleans on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005. (AP Photo/NOAA)

House panel takes hard look at UN climate change process

Ron Arnold · May 27, 2014 9:00 pm

Federal agencies are required by law to rely upon independent scientific experts to conduct cost-benefit analyses of proposed environmental regulations. (Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

EPA uses tax dollars to buy ‘independent’ scientific reviews to support proposed regulations

Mark Tapscott · March 26, 2014 4:00 am

As is the case with virtually every major regulatory initiative the EPA has launched in recent years, officials simply ignore or refuse such requests. (Photo: Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Examiner Editorial: Time to end the ‘secret science’ at the EPA

Washington Examiner · February 12, 2014 5:00 am