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Daily Archives: November 16, 2011
Even the Dutch rejecting wind power
Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour — some 4.5 billion euros last year. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
UK rent-seekers to seek greener pastures?
The world’s biggest solar panel maker may pull out of the UK, following the Government’s ‘controversial’ [necessary?] decision to slash subsidies. Continue reading
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Posted in Clean energy, Green jobs
Browner: Tom Delay to blame for EPA greenhouse gas regs
But where should the idea for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases have come? Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change, EPA
Chu to Congress: Solyndra my call
Even though the Solyndra decision was above Chu’s pay grade, in tomorrow’s Congressional testimony (release tonight), Energy Secretary Steven Chu volunteers to take the blame for Solyndra. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Shocking: Illegal for Aussie businesses to blame price hikes on carbon tax
1984 hits Australia in 2011. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Debunked: Childhood obesity not linked with adult metabolic syndrome
“Little evidence was found to support the view that childhood obesity is an independent risk factor for adult blood lipid status, insulin levels, metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes.” Continue reading
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Posted in Obesity
Obama praises Aussie carbon tax
“I think it’s good for the world” — spoken like a true 12-year old. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
CAFE Death: Obama proposes to kill more Americans…
… because saving a few gallons of abundant gasoline is worth it. Continue reading
Posted in Fuel economy
Enviros sue EPA to ‘force’ tighter soot standards
EPA pays the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association sues EPA to expand agency power. See how corruption works? Continue reading
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Posted in Air pollution, EPA
Gingrich: Fire EPA’s 18,000 employees
Now that’s a jobs program we can get behind. Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012
RFK Jr. investment got $1.4 billion taxpayer bailout
“President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy, Jr., netted a $1.4 billion bailout for his company, BrightSource, through a loan guarantee issued by a former employee-turned Department of Energy official.” Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Michael Mann to get a medal?
An Iron Tree Ring for the hockey stick blitzkrieg? A Hero of Junk Science for the defending the ongoing siege at Climategate-grad? What? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Nature: Letting Go of Kyoto
A climate alarmist offers a solution to the failure and coming expiration of the Kyoto protocol. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Time to stop celebrating polluters?
That’s what Mongolian sustainability professor Chuluun Togtokh says in this week’s Nature. Continue reading
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Posted in Sustainability
Boreal forest toilet paper is climate-friendly
Another Greenpeace campaign down the toilet — so wipe yourself and save the planet. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Paper products
9-11 dust caused atherosclerosis in rescuers?
“Thou shalt commit junk science” is a commandment that came from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Continue reading
Posted in World Trade Center
William Ruckelshaus still bloviating; Millions still dying
The Center for Public Integrity asked William Ruckelshaus five questions. We would have added a sixth. Continue reading
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Posted in DDT and malaria
Appropriations battle over EPA riders looming
House Republicans still have a couple chances to rein in the EPA. Continue reading
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Posted in 112th Congress, EPA
EPA chief to get Princeton’s James Madison Medal
If seismic activity is measured at Montpelier, Virginia in February 2012, we’ll know that Bill of Rights author James Madison is rightly spinning in his grave. Continue reading
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Posted in Odds and ends
