Political Diary: Where's the Transparency, Mr. President? - WSJ.com

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe has spent the past week noting that the Obama administration as of today will be missing a statutory deadline on regulatory transparency. The Regulatory Flexibility Act requires federal agencies to publish in the Federal Register descriptions of economically significant regulations they expect to propose. These agendas are required to be published on a semi-annual basis, in both April and October. The Obama administration has now failed to meet this legal requirement since the fall of 2011.

That is no doubt because to comply with this law, the Obama administration would have to confess to its plans to continue with more than a dozen wildly unpopular and hugely expensive environmental regulations. As the election has heated up over the past year, the Environmental Protection Agency has quietly "delayed" or put aside many of these rules, to keep the president from catching heat. As Sen. Inhofe detailed in a recent report, titled "A Look Ahead to EPA Regulations for 2013," they include the agency's greenhouse gas regulations, its crushing ozone rule, a drastic rewrite of the Clean Water Act, and punitive new restrictions on everything from storm water systems, to sulfur in gasoline, to coal ash, to emissions from industrial boilers.

Eli Lehrer: 'Climate Silence': It's Just Common Sense

But, ultimately, the consequences (as with the future consequences of anything) aren't knowable in any great detail. Even as essentially all climate scientists have come around to the idea that climate change is real and likely to be a problem in the future, a number have also backed away from extreme alarmist predictions that climate change would make the Earth uninhabitable.

...politicians shouldn't be expected to speak a great deal about an issue that doesn't show up as being important to voters.

West Virginia: Multiple roofs collapse in Nicholas County

According to the Nicholas County Sheriff's Dept., multiple roofs in Nicholas County have collapsed from snow accumulation.

Roofs at the U-Save in Craigsville, the Foodland in Craigsville and the U-Save in Summersville have all collapsed.
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The roofs collapsed in the overnight hours of Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Snow totals are ranging from 1 to 2 1/2 feet of snow.

Official: 40 pct W.Va. county's roads still closed

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A highways official says 40 percent of the roads in Nicholas County remain closed due to downed trees and snow from Superstorm Sandy.

State Department of Transportation acting district engineer Steve Cole in Lewisburg says 80 employees are clearing roads in the county, where snows drifts of up to 5 feet have been reported and numerous roofs have collapsed.