Even Yellowstone National Park won’t be able to meet clean air standards in new EPA proposals. But that’s not all, according to folks in the energy industry. The video below, from the Energy Tomorrow Blog, offers details worth sharing about clean air, ethanol in gasoline and more. CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., and [...]
Even Yellowstone National Park Can’t Pass New Environmental Standards Proposed by EPA
November 19th, 2010 · No Comments
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Oil and Natural Gas Group Files Suit Against EPA (Update)
November 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Three months ago, I warned about Obama’s EPA Blending Politics and Science. One month ago, I reported on an EPA decision that could do more harm than good. Today, I’m backed up by the folks at the American Petroleum Institute, a group that represents more than 400 oil and natural gas companies. According to a [...]
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Ethanol Decision Could Do More Harm Than Good
October 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Two months ago, I warned you about President Barack Obama’s EPA blending politics and science. Now, according to an EPA news release issued Wednesday, the “blending” process appears to be complete: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today waived a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10 percent ethanol for model year 2007 [...]
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Obama’s EPA Blending Politics and Science
August 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments
President Barack Obama used the occasion of his late-April visit to the POET Energy ethanol plant near Macon, Mo., to tout cellulosic ethanol as a viable alternative fuel that will generate tens of thousands of jobs. That visit prompted me to ask the question, Does Obama Plan to Soak Taxpayers in Ethanol? Now, fast forward [...]
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Beef Cattle Industry Fighting Back Against EPA
April 7th, 2010 · No Comments
The prices of everything from hamburgers to filet mignon are going to rise, thanks to the efforts of people at the Environmental Protection Agency who, it appears, didn’t receive the memo that global warming climate change had been proven to be a hoax at best and, more accurately, a crime against humanity. In an effort [...]
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Leaders Across USA Demand Congress Muzzle EPA
March 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The American Petroleum Institute released the following statement today on two letters — one from 20 governors, the other from 98 business groups — asking Congress to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing greenhouse gas emission rules: The letters indicate broad-based, growing concern from both state governments and business and industry about [...]
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Costly Proposed Air Standards Lack Scientific Basis
February 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
In testimony delivered in Houston today, officials with the American Petroleum Institute said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new ozone pollution standards would exact significant costs on consumers, jobs and the economy without delivering commensurate benefits. Furthermore, they said there was no solid scientific justification for imposing the more stringent standards. “Without a clear [...]
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