Climate & Energy – Page 58

WINNING: Interior Department rescinds all Obama-era climate policies

So long. Farewell. Auf wiedersehen. Goodbye.

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Simple Math: US CO2 Emissions Irrelevant to Climate

Proof that a carbon tax would accomplish nothing.

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EPA seeks comment on replacement of Obama Clean Power Plan

Here’s our recommendation — NOTHING. Also note that the EPA is (unfortunately) NOT seeking comment on whether the endangerment finding should be reconsidered. Here’s another recommendation — TELL EPA TO START THE PROCESS FOR RECONSIDERING THE ENDANGERMENT FINDING, ANYWAY. Click for the document.

‘With no proven environmental benefit whatsoever…’

What Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray had to say with respect to Obama’s war-on-coal in comments on the Trump EPA’s proposed repeal of the Obama’s EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Below is how Murray summarized the cost to industry. It does not begin to reckon the cost of lost jobs to miners, their families and communities.

Read Murray’s full comment here.

File your comments on the proposed repeal of the CPP here. Deadline is January 16, 2018.

Milloy files ‘greenwashing’ shareholder proposal with ExxonMobil as oil giant’s bid to appease climate activists flounders

ExxonMobil management is destroying a great company and helping greens to destroy America. To borrow from William F. Buckley, Jr., JunkScience.com is “standing athwart history, yelling ‘STOP,’ at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Here is my shareholder proposal for ExxonMobil’s 2018 annual meeting.

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CO2 not increasing severe tornadoes

Climate hysteria’s extreme weather hypothesis is tested for tornadoes. Fail.

Blackmail: Corporate rentseekers and greenwashers (temporarily) thwart ALEC effort to urge EPA to reconsider the endangerment finding

Despite my acclaimed and factually unchallenged presentation (even most opponents conceded my points), Exxon, Pfizer, UPS and the electric utilities (represented by the Edison Electric Institute) sabotaged (via blackmail) the Heartland Institute’s effort at the American Legislative Exchange Council this week to pass a resolution urging EPA to reconsider its Obama-era finding that CO2 (plant food) threatens the public welfare.

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Joe Bast: Scientific Critique of USGCRP’s 2017 Climate Science Special Report

A Joe Bast-authored summary critique of the June draft of the USGCRP report that hit the streets today. Nothing of significance that we have noticed has changed between June and now.