BUT GREENS GO APOPLECTIC OVER RULE CHANGE THAT WOULD HAVE NO CLIMATE OR OTHER BENEFITS by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Aug. 8, 2018) — Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards were devised back in 1975, amid anxiety over the OPEC oil embargo and supposedly imminent depletion of the world’s oil supplies. But recall, barely 15 years […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2017, President, NARLO (Oct. 15, 2017) — “Never have so many been so duped by so few and paid such a huge price for failing to use logic and their innate intellect and common sense, to poke holes in a radical, monumental, environmental climate swindle and […]
REALISTS MUST NOW SWAY PUBLIC OPINION FIRMLY AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING SCARE by Tom Harris, ©2017, Executive Director, ICSC (Mar. 31, 2017) — President Donald Trump is right to kill the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The rules only regulate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), which even school children know is not unclean. CO2 is an essential […]
FEDERAL AIR QUALITY RULES MUST BE BASED ON SCIENCE – NOT USED TO STIFLE ENERGY AND INDUSTRY by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Jan. 15, 2017) — It’s called the Clean Air Act, but it was never intended to ensure pure, pristine air. Congress wanted America to have safe, healthy air, and regulations based on solid scientific […]
CONTINUING TO FOCUS ON CARBON DIOXIDE AS THE DRIVING FORCE WILL JUST BRING MORE BOGUS PREDICTIONS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Jan. 8, 2017) — These days, even shipwreck museums showcase evidence of climate change. After diving recently among Key West’s fabled ship-destroying barrier reefs, I immersed myself in exhibits from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, […]
USING THE EPA, CEQ AND OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES TO FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM AMERICA by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Apr. 12, 2015) — ISIS terrorists continue to butcher people, while hacking into a French television network. Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons remains on track. In a nation of 320 million people, American businesses hired only 126,000 workers in March, […]
USING LIES TO SHORE UP POLICIES BUILT ON SHAKY FOUNDATIONS OF CLIMATE, PEAK OIL AND SUSTAINABILITY by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Apr. 21, 2014) — Built on a foundation of sand, the Leaning Tower of Pisa would have toppled over long ago, if not for ingenious engineering projects that keep it from tilting any further. The same […]
FINALIZED TIER 3 GASOLINE SULFUR RULES WILL BRING BOGUS BENEFITS AT HIGH HEALTH AND WELFARE PRICE by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Mar. 30, 2014) — The Obama Environmental Protection Agency recently slashed the maximum allowable sulfur content in gasoline from 30 parts per million to 10 ppm. The agency claims its new “Tier 3” rule will bring […]
IF IT DOES, THE IMPACTS ON OUR LIVES, LIVELIHOODS, LIBERTIES AND LIVING STANDARDS WILL BE ENORMOUS by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Mar. 3, 2014) — The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency. The case will determine how far EPA can extend its regulatory overreach, to control “climate […]
EPA NIFONGS AND BEALES PROSECUTE US HYDROCARBONS, JOBS, LIVING STANDARDS AND HEALTH by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Dec. 28, 2013) — Former Durham, NC district attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred for withholding evidence from the defense and lying to the court in the trumped-up Duke lacrosse team rape case. Ex-Boston crime lab technician Annie Dookhan was […]
KILLING OUR ECONOMY, JOBS AND WELFARE – FOR PHONY HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL REASONS by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Aug. 4, 2013) — The Environmental Protection Agency’s war on economic growth, jobs, poor families, modern living standards, and people’s health and welfare is about to get a lot more damaging.. The Clean Air Act says EPA must set […]
INTERIOR, ENERGY AND EPA NOMINEES RAISE SERIOUS QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED by Craig Rucker, ©2013 (Apr. 1, 2013) — In his second inaugural address, Obama pledged to address “the threat of climate change” because no one can avoid “the devastating impact of raging fires, crippling droughts and more powerful storms.” Obama had said nothing […]
COULD IT BE OBAMA HIMSELF? by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 28, 2012) — Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency director, Lisa Jackson, has submitted her resignation as that agency’s inspector general probes her use of an email address which used the alias “Richard Windsor.” After Obama promised “an unprecedented level of openness in government,” in November, Jackson and […]
EPA ADVANCES ANTI-ENERGY AGENDA, WITH LITTLE REGARD FOR AMERICANS’ HEALTH OR WELFARE by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Sep. 11, 2012) — Seven score and nine years ago, President Lincoln resolved to take increased devotion to ensuring that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth. Yet, today, […]
EPA’s E-15 ETHANOL PLAN IS BAD FOR OUR POCKETBOOKS, ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY POLICY by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Apr. 24, 2012) — The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists. The latest chapter […]
EPA’s CARBON DIOXIDE RULES ENDANGER HUMAN HEALTH AND WELFARE by Craig Rucker, ©2012 (Mar. 3, 2012) — Legal challenges by states and industry groups over the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could and should be decided in the challengers’ favor. Whether that will happen in this highly politicized, semi-scientific […]