Bob McCarty Writes

Four Republican Senators — South Carolina’s Lindsay Graham, New Hampshire’s Judd Gregg and Maine’s Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins — sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, asking her to provide critical data requested by Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) during Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on climate change Oct. 27.
During those [...]

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Members of the mainstream media — people who call themselves “journalists” — seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 — this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey) are at the center of heated debate now taking place on [...]

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) uses a just-released video (below) to point out what happened at 3:09 a.m. (Eastern) on June 26 as most Americans were sleeping:  Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives were creating a nightmare.
“In the early morning hours,” he explains, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her deputies were pushing the largest tax [...]

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A glance at the chart below, released today by the American Petroleum Institute, proves the nation’s oil and natural gas companies are not immune to the global recession and have, in fact, experienced a sharp decline in first-quarter net profits versus the same period last year.

Instead of asking for bailouts, however, leaders of the nation’s [...]

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Americans who value energy independence should ensure their voices are heard and make an effort to attend one of four regional public meetings being hosted by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar this month.  The chief subject of the meetings:  Development of offshore energy resources (a.k.a., “offshore drilling”).
According to his agency’s news release, the meetings [...]

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