Earth Day? Beware the Hype.
Acid rain. Expanding deserts. Global cooling. As Reason.tv explains in its video “The Top Five Environmental Disasters That Didn’t Happen,” all of the above were moments of environmental hysteria that...
View ArticleAl Kamen Has No Idea What He Is Talking About
Writing up yesterday’s House Select Committee for energy Independence and Global Warming hearing, Washington Post columnist Al Kamen takes EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to task for referring to...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Debate Goes Cold
As the House of Commons in England was debating global warming legislation, something happened that hasn’t occurred since 1922. Snow started to fall in October. Since the late 1980s, the left has been...
View ArticleVideo: The Economic Costs of the EPA’s ANPR Regulations
Senior Policy Analyst Dave Kreutzer discusses the economic cost of the proposed regulations of the EPA. You can make a difference. The Heritage Foundation has set up a Web site called StopEPA.com and...
View ArticleGuest Blog: Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) Uncovers EPA Deception
EPA Holds ‘Smoking Gun’ Memo from the White House [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-SvGLPjm5w[/youtube] Today I exposed a “smoking gun” White House memo to the Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleMorning Bell: The Costs and Benefits of Waxman-Markey
Today the House Energy and Commerce Committee will begin a multi-day markup on the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill. Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) has been busy lobbying his own caucus for the...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Voice: Dr. Alan Carlin
Ever hear of Alan Carlin? Probably not, and that is the way the Obama Administration wants to keep it. Dr. Carlin is an Environmental Protection Agency veteran who recently wrote a damaging report,...
View ArticleBritain’s Climate Model is a CO2 Machine
From the department of irony, Britain’s weather supercomputer for predicting climate change is one of the nation’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide: The Met Office has caused a storm of controversy...
View ArticleStopping the EPA’s CO2 Regulations
When the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill passed in the House before last year’s summer recess, Members voting for its passage heard loudly from constituents. Since then the Senate has been reluctant...
View ArticleTsunamis: Another Perspective on the Economic Impact of Carbon Restrictions
All the world mourned the human toll taken by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Thousands of lives were lost; hundreds of thousands more shattered. Of course, natural disasters inflict economic...
View ArticleWe Need a Permanent Fix to the EPA’s CO2 Regulations
Realizing the costs and folly of instituting a massive greenhouse gas regulatory regime, Members of Congress stopped cap-and-trade legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions, most notably carbon...
View ArticleEPA’s CO2 Regulations are What’s “Comically Wrong”
The Environmental Protection Agency called a Daily Caller report “comically wrong” this morning. That is an interesting analysis given that the EPA’s hideously bad global warming regulations are more...
View ArticleU.S. Way Ahead in Clean Energy Race
If clean-energy means “low-carbon” (a definition to which I object), then the U.S. is way, way ahead of China in the clean-energy race. If it means low-everything-else, we are still way, way ahead,...
View ArticleEPA Wants to Regulate CO2 but Ignores Vital Information
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson recently announced that her agency would proceed with twice-delayed regulations targeting power plants that emit carbon dioxide and other...
View ArticleEPA CO2 Regulation Effectively Bans New Coal Facilities
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new rule to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants, which would effectively ban new coal power plants, as its emissions standards are too low to...
View ArticleCourt Upholds Greenhouse Gas Rule; Congress Needs to Step Up
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are a threat...
View ArticleEPA Argues for Subsidizing Domestic Oil Production
The Environmental Protection Agency’s world is chock full of external costs and external benefits that it must rectify with taxes, subsidies, and regulations. For instance, to cure this world of...
View ArticleCarbon Tax: Won’t Reduce Deficit or Temperature
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report that should be a cause for concern to all who believe in limited government. In it, CRS argues that a new tax on carbon could cut the deficit...
View ArticleEPA’s Jackson Leaves Legacy of Higher Costs, Less Consumer Choice
Mike Theiler/Pool/EPA/Newscom Lisa Jackson will retire from her position as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this month as the most prolific regulator of her class of Obama...
View ArticleEPA’s New CO2 Regulations: Time for Congress to Step Up
Newscom “Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.” That gem came from outside White House adviser Daniel...
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