Editorial, Investor’s Business Daily, August 23, 2011
Junk Science: Environmental debate is often framed as a conflict of progress vs. conservation. But in California, a federal environmental agency’s bid to halt local conservation efforts reveals the real objective: expanding power. Continue reading IBD: Sucker-ing California
The White House has released a regulatory reform plan that will allegedly save businesses $10 billion over the next five years. But businesses will need every penny as the coming EPA ozone rule alone is estimated to cost $1 trillion per year.
August 23, 2011, Investor’s Business Daily
It won’t matter which light bulbs we use as the administration’s implementation of cross-state pollution rules shuts down coal plants across the country. Where will the jobs be when the lights go out? Continue reading EPA's Looming Blackouts
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is planning a really lame-o campaign for the fall. Continue reading Memo to coal industry: Time to replace your 'Steve Miller'
350.org chief Bill “King Canute” McKibben reviews a banner at the ongoing protest against the proposed Keystone XL (tar sands) pipeline.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says EPA’s anti-growth, anti-jobs policies contributed to S&P’s downgrade of US creditworthiness in a Washington Post op-ed. Continue reading Eric Cantor hits EPA for anti-growth regulations
Based on Friday’s climate comments: Rick Santorum is awesome; Chris Christie is still bad. Continue reading Santorum passes, Christie fails climate litmus test
Does EPA administrator Lisa Jackson not know what her agency is doing or did she just lie to Politico about EPA regulating farm dust? Continue reading EPA's Lisa Jackson misinforms (lies to?) Politico on farm dust
By Steve Milloy and Dr. John Dale Dunn
August 19, 2011, Washington Times
What if today’s levels of air pollution didn’t kill anybody?
That certainly would be bad news for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has spent the past 15 years stubbornly defending its extraordinarily expensive and ever-tightening air-quality regulations. Continue reading Air-pollution scare debunked
“In the Bay Area as in much of the country, the green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned. President Obama once pledged to create five million green jobs over 10 years. Gov. Jerry Brown promised 500,000 clean-technology jobs statewide by the end of the decade. But the results so far suggest such numbers are a pipe dream,” reports the New York Times. Continue reading NYTimes: Green jobs = Pipe Dream
EPA filed its legal brief this afternoon with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit defending its December 2009 decision that CO2 emissions threaten public welfare. Here is the EPA’s summary of its argument: Continue reading EPA files legal brief on endangerment finding
Switzerland says that Italy is emitting 10-20 times more of the “potent” greenhouse gas trifluoromethane (HFC-23) than the Italians officially report. The Swiss observe, “International agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) basically have one snag: it is almost impossible to independently verify whether participating countries abide by the agreement.”