Bob McCarty Writes

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives passed by a narrow margin earlier this week a piece of legislation known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (a.k.a., “Waxman-Markey”). As a result, it’s too late for them to benefit from doses of INCONVENIENT TRUTH SERUM.  When it comes to their counterparts in [...]

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Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, issued the following statement today, slamming the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed endangerment finding for greenhouse gases:
“The proposed endangerment finding poses an endangerment to the American economy and to every American family.  It could lead to greenhouse gas regulations under a law fundamentally ill-suited to addressing the challenge [...]

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said today that the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed endangerment finding will unleash a torrent of regulations that will destroy jobs, harm consumers, and extend the agency’s reach into every corner of American life. Despite enormous expense and hardship for the American economy, these regulations will have virtually no effect on climate [...]

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I never throw litter on the ground, and people who know me well know that I rarely make an effort to recycle household waste (i.e., paper, plastic and metals).  In other words, I stand little risk of being mistaken for an ultra-environmentalist. Neither do the guys who appear on the Environmental Protection Agency’s most-wanted list [...]

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It appears the folks at the Environmental Protection Agency want to turn cows into goats — or, more accurately, scapegoats — by charging fees to people who raise air-polluting animals.
According to an Associated Press report today, a proposal put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy [...]

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