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Tag Archives: rogue agency
Brian McGraw: Consumer Preferences Versus Energy Efficiency Regulations
The Mercatus Center released a paper (PDF) this month co-authored by Ted Gayer (an economist at the Brooking Institution) and W. Kip Viscusi (an economics professor at Vanderbilt), titled “Overriding Consumer Preferences with Energy Regulations” which questions the economic justification for various government schemes implemented to force energy efficiency improvements in consumer household products, automobiles, lightbulbs, etc. Continue reading
Posted in Consumer products, Energy efficiency, EPA, Green hell
Tagged government mandates, rogue agency
Merril Matthews: Plunge In CO2 Output Due To Natural Gas Fracking
The most underreported recent environmental story has been the dramatic decline in energy-related carbon emissions — nearly back to mid-1990s levels, and falling. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Climate Change, EPA, Fracking, Oil and gas
Tagged co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, natural gas, rogue agency
Deroy Murdock: High cost of fantasy fuel
Team Obama fines companies for not buying fuel that doesn’t exist Continue reading
Bernard L. Weinstein: Temperatures up, lights out across America
Obama’s energy policies are stressing the electricity grid Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, EPA, grid reliability, Population
Tagged climate fraud, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, rogue agency
Chip Knappenberger: EPA Overlook Improved Health & Welfare from Greenhouse Gas Emissions
“The [EPA] Proposal ignores the obvious association between increased GHG emissions and positive health and welfare benefits. GHG emissions and improving quality of life are associated because the economy runs on energy, and that energy is principally derived from fossil fuels.” Continue reading
Chip Knappenberger: New Science Endangers EPA’s “Endangerment Finding”
“If the EPA were to have done that with the regulations being proposed here … it is quite likely that their original Endangerment Finding would have to be revised and potentially overturned.” Continue reading
Power industry braces for court air pollution ruling
The power industry is waiting for a federal appeals court to rule on proposed emissions controls for coal-fired power plants, a decision with implications for energy sectors ranging from natural gas to coal to tradeable pollution permits. Continue reading
First casualty of greenhouse gas rules may be Texas plant
How ironic, knocking over what is essentially a waste-to-energy plant: “Developers targeted 2013 to begin operating a new power plant fueled by the carbon-rich leftover from nearby oil refining in Corpus Christi.” Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Cap & Tax, EPA
Tagged climate hysteria, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, rogue agency
William Yeatman: Sen. Lamar Alexander’s Payoff
In mid-June, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) led the opposition against S. J. Res. 37, legislation that would have blocked EPA’s all pain, no gain Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) regulation. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Coffee, Eco-terrorism, EPA
Tagged energy infrastructure, greenie obstructionists, rogue agency
Coal concerns top McKinley’s agenda
Walking into Rep. David McKinley’s (R-W.Va.) office, the first thing a visitor notices is the life-size poster above his couch of coal miner James Brandon and his young daughter, Kailee. “I’m looking out for this guy right here,” McKinley said, pointing to the poster. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Coal, EPA
Tagged anti coal, anti development, greenie obstructionists, rogue agency
NRDC Jumps for Joy Over Court Win for EPA
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) was ecstatic over the recent appellate court ruling, upholding the EPA’s power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act. Continue reading
Posted in Environmentalism, EPA, Green hell
Tagged co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, rogue agency
George F. Will: What price clean air?
The federal government is a bull that has found yet another china shop, this time in Arizona. It seems determined to inflict, for angelic motives and progressive goals, economic damage on this state. And economic and social damage on Native Americans, who over the years have experienced quite enough of that at Washington’s hands. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Economics, EPA
Tagged greenie obstructionists, rogue agency
William Yeatman: Video: Update on Fight against EPA’s Regional Haze Power Grab
This blog leads the league in posts about EPA’s Regional Haze power grab. In a nutshell, the Agency is usurping the States’ rightful authority to set visibility improvement policy pursuant to a Clean Air Act provision known as Regional Haze. Continue reading
Dr Willie Soon’s June 2012 presensation on “The Myth of Killer Mercury”
Video of a talk on mercury science and issue: Willie Soon’s view on why EPA’s mercury emission rules (as well as the recent FDEP’s water mercury standard) are anti-scientific social agendas Continue reading
WaPo editorial: The EPA wins, for science’s sake
We’d say that means Congress needs to get off its collective butt and fix this nonsense once and for all, either by preventing USEPA (pronounced usurper?) from considering greenhouse gases or eliminating the rogue agency altogether. Naturally that isn’t how the whining WaPo sees it: Continue reading
EDITORIAL: Obama’s war on guns and oil
White House unleashes OSHA for revenge against hated industries Continue reading
Posted in Development, Fracking, Gun control, Oil and gas
Tagged anti development, rogue agency
A Fracking Rule Reprieve – Next year comes the federal deluge.
The oil and gas industry is celebrating last week’s news that the Interior Department is suspending its proposing rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands. The better way to view this is as the calm before next year’s federal regulatory surge. Continue reading
Posted in Development, Fracking
Tagged anti development, natural gas, rogue agency, shale oil
Few legal options for losers in EPA rule challenge
After a federal appeals court upheld Obama administration greenhouse gas regulations yesterday, attention turned to what remaining legal options are left available to the challengers. Continue reading
Court ruling to shift greenhouse gas fight back to Congress
An appeals court decision to uphold proposed federal greenhouse gas rules may shift the fight over regulating the heat-trapping emissions back to Congress, where lawmakers may step up efforts to diminish the EPA’s power or renew efforts to set a price on carbon, experts said. Continue reading
