Tag: Clean Power Plan
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EPA’s Totalitarian Assault on America
by Duggan Flanakin, ©2021 (Apr. 2, 2021) — Biden-Harris Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan is clearly on a mission. He has “bold aspirations, and a long to-do list,” says The Washington Post. But to succeed, the Post acknowledges, he must “help the EPA get its groove back.” As Regan put it, “We’ve got a…
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But What Will Take its Place?
DOES GOVERNMENT REALLY NEED TO REGULATE EVERYTHING? CAN NO PROGRAM BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE? by Greg Walcher, ©2018 (Oct. 23, 2018) — In high school and college, I competed in debate tournaments across the state and country. I clearly remember many occasions when a debate team’s plan would include abolishing some government program. Inevitably, the…
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Endangerment Finding Delenda Est
REPLACING CLEAN POWER PLAN WITH LESS HARMFUL ACE RULE DOES NOT FIX FRAUDULENT CO2 SCIENCE by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Sep. 3, 2018) — As the Punic Wars dragged on, Cato the Elder reportedly concluded every speech to the Roman Senate by proclaiming “Carthago delenda est” – “Carthage must be destroyed.” Ample evidence suggests that the…
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The Misguided Affordable Clean Energy Rule
WHY IS THE US EPA STILL DETERMINED TO CONTROL PLANT FOOD AND DRIVE UP ELECTRICITY PRICES? by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, ©2018 (Aug. 30, 2018) — On August 28, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a press release “EPA Acting Administrator tours Ohio to promote ACE rule,” his proposed Affordable Clean…
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Taming the EPA Regulatory Hydra: An Essential First Step
IN AMERICA’S MOST POWERFUL, INTRUSIVE AND COSTLY AGENCY, POWER RESIDES IN ONE ADMINISTRATOR by William L. Kovacs, ©2018 (Aug. 17, 2018) — Since President Trump’s election, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has turned off its massive regulatory printing press. The nation is still here, there have been no man-made environmental catastrophes, and job creation…
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Frigid Cold is Why We Need Dependable Energy
CHEAP, ABUNDANT COAL IS KEY TO NATIONAL SECURITY, WARM HOMES AND WINTERTIME SURVIVAL by Tom Harris, ©2018, Executive Director, ICSC (Jan. 16, 2018) — Recent record-setting low temperatures have underscored the creature comfort and often life-saving importance of abundant, reliable, affordable energy. They also reminded us how appropriate it was that America’s 2017 National Security…
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Coal Key to National Security Strategy
CLIMATE SCARE MUST BE DEBUNKED IF COAL IS TO RECOVER by Tom Harris, ©2017 (Dec. 31, 2017) — It was a stroke of public relations genius for President Donald Trump to release his National Security Strategy (NSS), a document that emphasizes energy security and energy dominance, on December 18, three days before the start of…
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Coal Key to National Security Strategy
CLIMATE SCARE MUST BE DEBUNKED IF COAL IS TO RECOVER by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2017 (Dec. 22, 2017) — It is very appropriate that President Donald Trump virtually ignored climate change in his National Security Strategy (NSS). Recent climate change has been unremarkable and clearly does not constitute a national security threat in…
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End the “War on Coal”
FAR FROM BEING A THREAT, COAL CONTINUES TO BRING HEALTH, WELFARE AND PROSPERITY TO BILLIONS by Bryan Leyland and Tom Harris, ©2017 (Dec. 8, 2017) — At the recent Environmental Protection Agency public hearing in Charleston, West Virginia, on withdrawing the “Clean Power Plan,” anti-coal activists were out in force: the Climate Justice Alliance, Sierra Club, Citizens Climate Lobby, Natural…
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The Obama EPA’s Crooked Prosecutors
THE AGENCY’S CARBON DIOXIDE CLIMATE “ENDANGERMENT FINDING” WAS A KANGAROO COURT PROCESS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Oct. 15, 2017) — Suppose a crooked prosecutor framed someone and was determined to get a conviction. So he built an entire case on tainted, circumstantial evidence, and testimony from witnesses who had their reasons for wanting the guy…
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Pretend Conservatives for Not-So-Clean Energy
FAR-LEFT ‘CHARITABLE’ FOUNDATIONS GIVE MILLIONS TO ‘CONSERVATIVE’ GROUPS TO DRIVE CLIMATE AGENDA by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Apr. 2, 2017) — More and more conservatives are proclaiming the virtues of clean energy. At least that’s what some groups want you to believe. In reality, far-left “charitable” foundations have given pretend conservatives millions of dollars to advance…
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Killing Clean Power Plan Crucial Step in Ending Climate Deception
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…
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The Social Cost of Carbon Regulations
ANTI-FOSSIL FUEL SCC RELIES ON GARBAGE MODELS, IGNORES CARBON BENEFITS AND HURTS THE POOR by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek (Mar. 18, 2017) — “If you could pick just one thing to reduce poverty, by far you would pick energy,” Bill Gates has said. “Access to energy is absolutely fundamental in the struggle against poverty,”…
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Those “Devastating” EPA Reductions
BUDGET AND PERSONNEL CUTS REFLECT ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS AND ESSENTIAL REGULATORY REFORMS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Mar. 11, 2017) — The Trump White House wants significant reductions at the Environmental Protection Agency: two dozen or more programs, including a dozen dealing with President Obama’s climate initiatives; a 20% downsizing in EPA’s 15,000-person workforce; and a one-fourth…
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GIGO-Based Energy and Climate Policies
IT’S LIKE FORMULATING PUBLIC SAFETY POLICIES USING MODELS BASED ON DINOSAUR DNA FROM AMBER by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Feb. 27, 2017) — Things are never quiet on the climate front. After calling dangerous manmade climate change a hoax and vowing to withdraw the USA from the Paris agreement, President Trump has apparently removed language criticizing…
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Rolling Back Environmental Progress?
HAVING ACHIEVED MAJOR GOALS, US SHOULD REFOCUS EPA AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Dec. 3, 2016) — Donald Trump plans to “roll back progress” on climate change, energy and the environment, activists, regulators and their media allies assert. The claim depends on one’s definition of “progress.” These interest groups define “progress” as…
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Now Comes the Hard, Fun and Vital Part
“MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” REQUIRES DEEP-SIXING PUNITIVE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RULES by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Nov. 12, 2016) — The American people have roundly rejected a third Obama term and legacy of deplorable policies that were too often imposed via executive edicts, with minimal attempts to work with Congress or the states. This election shows that…
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Judges Must Understand: Climate Rules are Irrational
CLEAN POWER PLAN ALL PAIN, NO GAIN, FOR THE U.S. by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Sep. 23, 2016) — On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments in the litigation over President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). If implemented, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)…
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Smelling Blood in the Political Water
HAVING DESTROYED US COAL INDUSTRY, DEMOCRATS AND ECO ALLIES ARE NOW ATTACKING ALL FOSSIL FUELS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Apr. 24, 2016) — The great white environmentalist sharks smell blood in the water. It’s gushing from mortally wounded US coal companies that the Obama EPA has gutted as sacrifices on the altar of “dangerous manmade…
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Climate Change Surveys Still Useless
POLLSTERS SHOULD ASK HOW MUCH AMERICANS WILL PAY TO SET AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Apr. 8, 2016) — Public opinion polls are regularly cited by politicians and activists to support government action on climate change. Yet these surveys rarely make meaningful contributions to the public policy debate since…