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Congress Needs Dose of Inconvenient Truth Serum (Updated)

June 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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API Slams EPA’s Proposed Endangerment Finding

April 17th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Inhofe: Proposed EPA Endangerment Finding Will Destroy Jobs, Raise Energy Prices and More

April 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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EPA Releases Most-Wanted List of Eco-Fugitives

December 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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EPA Wants to Turn Cows Into Goats — Scapegoats

December 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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