“President Obama’s green jobs training program, which was part of his stimulus, has failed on most key jobs measures, according to a new internal audit that found it was training workers who already had jobs that didn’t need green energy skills, and was failing to place new enrollees in jobs once they finished the training. Continue reading Case closed: Obama green jobs program a failure
Al Gore's Current TV putting itself up for sale
“That’s big-time TV exec speak that roughly translates as ‘We’re getting ready to dump this turkey.'”[CainTV.com]
Professor Mann claims to win Nobel Prize; Nobel Committee says he has not!
“Michael Mann has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” [Examiner.com]
Danger, Mitt Romney, Danger: GE General Counsel in Running for EPA Administrator
The general counsel of green energy rent-seeking, cap-and-trade-loving, and USCAP-founding member General Electric is reportedly a leading candidate to head the EPA in a Romney administration. Continue reading Danger, Mitt Romney, Danger: GE General Counsel in Running for EPA Administrator
Gregg Abbott: A Romney Pick for EPA That We Endorse
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is reportedly being considered by Mitt Romney to be EPA administrator. We endorse this pick for the reasons described in this Dallas Morning News article.
Michaels: Would (Could) Mitt Romney Rein in the EPA?
A 5-minute podcast from Pat Michaels. [Cato Institute]
Driessen: EPA anti-energy regulations killing jobs
“More and more, daily decisions are made less by responsible citizens than by nanny-state government, especially powerful, unelected, unaccountable executive branch agencies in Washington. Among the worst is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).” [Washington Times]
Climate scientist Michael Mann sues over comparison to child molester
Controversial climate scientist Michael Mann, who helped raise global warming’s profile by representing temperatures as a rapidly escalating “hockey stick,” has filed a defamation lawsuit against skeptics at the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Mann said statements by the two organizations that compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky were offensive and defamatory, and called them the latest in a series of attacks he and other climate scientists have faced.[FOXNews.com]
EPA's Dirty, Dark Secret
By STEVE MILLOY
October 23, 2012, Investor’s Business Daily | Print Version
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued in federal court for conducting illegal experiments on human beings. A federal judge will now determine whether the EPA has violated federal law and the most sacrosanct moral standards of scientific research or whether the EPA has been lying to Congress and the public about the dangers of air pollution. Continue reading EPA's Dirty, Dark Secret
Flashback: Head of EPA Bars Nazi Data In Study on Gas
“The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, alerted by a letter of protest from agency scientists, has barred from an E.P.A. report on a toxic gas any data that the Nazis acquired in experiments on concentration camp prisoners.” [New York Times, March 23, 1988]
NBC-17: Congress wants probe of human testing claims at UNC-CH
“Congress is acting against an EPA study in Chapel Hill that involved human test subjects breathing Diesel fumes.” [WNCN, NBC-17 (Raleigh)]
House Committee requests investigation into illegal EPA human testing
“In a letter sent yesterday to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG), Investigations and Oversight Chairman Paul Broun (R-GA) requested that the Inspector General (IG) review EPA’s human research studies involving concentrated airborne particles.” [House Media Release | Letter to EPA IG]