“Steve Milloy, the publisher of JunkScience.com , writing for Investor’s Business Daily, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Christopher C. Horner, writing in California’s Orange County Register, point out that a carbon tax…” [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
Month: November 2012
EPA Inspector General Announces Investigation of Illegal Human Testing
The EPA Office of the Inspector General just announced it will be investigating the JunkScience.com-discovered illegal human testing by EPA scientists. [Click for the EPA OIG’s announcement]
Jackson may leave EPA
Greenhouse gases regulated, air quality standards needlessly tightened, coal industry crippled, frackers scared, Army Corps of Engineers usurped, science/cost-benefit analysis mocked, humans turned into guinea pigs, Congress ignored — mission accomplished. [Washington Post blog]
Exxon for carbon tax with conditions
“A carbon tax should be made revenue neutral via tax offsets in other areas.” [Bloomberg]
Sen. Vitter won't put as much emphasis on global warming
“I share the intense skepticism. But I would not expect to be as much the focus of my time and attention on the committee.” [Times-Picayune]
Alarmist Ploy: Institutional Divestment of Fossil Fuel Investments
“The event was one of 21 in a nationwide tour organized by 350.org to promote divestment. But, as Naomi Klein said, ‘it’s not gonna end with divestment. By the end, anybody who takes fossil fuel money is gonna have to justify themselves.'” [Harvard Crimson]
House GOP leaders pledge to oppose climate change ‘tax’
“The entire House GOP leadership team has registered its opposition to climate legislation that raises revenue, underscoring the long odds that taxing carbon emissions has in negotiations on the fiscal cliff.” [The Hill]
Patriot Coal to stop mountaintop removal mining
“Bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. agreed Thursday to become the first U.S. coal operator to phase out and eventually stop all large-scale mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia under an agreement reached with three environmental groups that sued over pollution from several West Virginia operations.” [Bloomberg]
Deep Fried Donuts Injected With Liquor
Take that, food nannies. [MyFoxDC.com]
Horner: New carbon tax would be folly
“AEI thereby joined former Republican politicians and advisers seeking to rebrand, as a conservative idea, the latest incarnation of what the political Left has long pined for, only to be told it was a dead letter given the political debacle of the Clinton administration’s 1993 “BTU tax.” [Orange County Register]
Review: 'Least Toxic Pesticides' Applied as a 'Last Resort'
“Recommendations and decisions to use “least toxic pesticides” and “pesticides as a last resort” have flourished in the last decade, but according to three scientific organizations – the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA), the American Phytopathological Society (APS) and the Plant-Insect Ecosystems Section of the Entomological Society of America (P-IE ESA) – these are not the correct approaches to the pesticide component of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program.” [Weed Science Society of America]
Obama declined to attribute Sandy to climate change…
… at this afternoon’s news conference. He did, however, reaffirm his belief in global warming. Continue reading Obama declined to attribute Sandy to climate change…