“Exporting the U.S. shale energy revolution overseas turns out to be far tougher than anyone expected—giving the U.S. a significant competitive advantage. Shale oil and natural gas have rejuvenated the North American energy industry and boosted the economy by supplying companies and consumers with cheap fuel. There are huge shale deposits outside of North America that global energy companies and governments are eager to tap. But oil companies are running into obstacles as they try to replicate the U.S. experience on other continents. The result is that significant overseas shale energy production could be a decade away.” [Wall Street Journal, Subscription Required]
With Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Record High, Worries on How to Slow Warming
What's EPA Smoking?
By Steve Milloy
December 3, 2012, Washington Times
Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans has any use for cigarettes nowadays, but here’s why the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made smoking important to us all. Continue reading What's EPA Smoking?
Asbestos flub costs Co-op City tenants $20M
“… 86,000 air tests conducted so far show no airborne asbestos before, during or after flooring work. They blame the phony scare on overzealous city inspectors and want their money back.” [New York Post]
Valerie Jarrett Heckled by 'Climate Activist' at Speech to Grassroots Organizers
And, of course, she would have spoken with the heckler afterward if he/she were a denier… possibly from the denier’s prison cell… [Weekly Standard]
2012 Hurricane Season Ends: NOAA Prediction WRONG AGAIN!
Did NOAA cheat on its 2011 hurricane forecast to beat two fifth graders? [National Center for Public Policy Research]
Miss. solar firm goes bust; Backed by Gov. Haley Barbour with $26MM of taxpayer money
When will Republicans learn that when you lie down with dogs…
Solar firm that got $26M in Miss. loans is closing… FLASHBACK to April 2010: Barbour “delighted” Twin Creeks Technologies picked Mississippi… CEO said “The State of Mississippi and the Governor’s office have been extremely helpful in driving the agreement to closure in record time…”
AAA urges EPA to halt approval of E15 for vehicles
“AAA, the nation’s largest travel organization, on Friday urged the Obama administration to halt the sale of E15 — a new fuel with a higher blend of ethanol — because of possible engine damage to most vehicles on the nation’s roads.” [Detroit News]
Challenge issued to the University of Montana's Curtis Noonan
Show us a body, dude. Put up or shut up. Continue reading Challenge issued to the University of Montana's Curtis Noonan
Sen. Whitehouse: Deniers tolerated too long
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is going to need an awfully large concentration camp for all of us. Continue reading Sen. Whitehouse: Deniers tolerated too long
EPA Fines School Bus Co. For Diesel Idling; Who will fine EPA for diesel idling?
So it’s not okay for school buses to idle, but EPA can idle a truck and pump its diesel exhaust into the lungs of elderly people?
From the Danbury Daily Voice:
Idling diesel engines emit pollutants, which can cause or aggravate a variety of health problems, including asthma and other respiratory diseases, and the fine particles in diesel exhaust are a likely human carcinogen,” the EPA said in the statement. “Diesel exhaust not only contributes to areawide air quality problems, but more direct exposure can cause lightheadedness, nausea, sore throat, coughing and other symptoms.
Click for EPA’s illegal human experiments.
Eugene Robinson admits U.S. not a climate threat
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has bowed to reality (as calculated here by JunkScience.com). Robinson writes today, “Americans are not the big problem…” [Washington Post]