Bob McCarty Writes

U.S.-based oil and natural gas companies invested $58.4 billion from 2000 through 2008 in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study, Key Investments in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Technologies by Energy Firms, Other Industry and the Federal Government, released by T2 and Associates and the Center for Energy Economics at the University of [...]

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Asked by the host to explain his party’s plan to deal with carbon emissions, Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner described the overwhelming scientific consensus that carbon dioxide is contributing to climate change as “comical” during an appearance (see video below) on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopolous Sunday.  Furthermore, he pointed out that cow [...]

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President Barack Obama’s “cap and trade” energy tax plan is drawing a lot of negative attention this week — and for several good reasons!
Yesterday, officials at the American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement that is critical of the plan:
“The White House’s unofficial new estimate for the cost of capping the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions [...]

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It’s not enough for members of the mainstream news media to try to brainwash the public that the Earth is in peril due to global warming. According to Dan Gainor and his colleagues at the Business and Media Institute, now they’re telling us what to eat. Case in point: A recent edition of [...]

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As the Senate is poised to vote on the Lieberman-Warner America’s Climate Security Act, a new poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the higher energy costs the bill would impose.
The poll, conducted by the National Center for Public Policy Research, found 65% of Americans reject spending even a penny more for gasoline in [...]

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