Tag: EPA
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A Good Example of a Bad Environmental Justice Study
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (May 7, 2021 — Biden’s so-called environmental justice push is going to bring on a big wave of bogus research. A really big report just came out so I want to chop on it a bit. Not just for its specific fallacies, but also as typical of what we are…
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Crazy HFC Phaseout is Coming (Part 2)
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Apr. 6, 2021) — In my first article — “Economically destructive cap and trade for HFCs is here” — I looked at the Kigali Amendment part of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act or AIM. There the big problem is that the HFC cap is based on 8-10 year old…
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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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Economically Destructive Cap and Trade for HFCs is Here
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Mar. 27, 2021) — This is a bit complicated so bear with me. To begin with, Biden’s avalanche of climate scare executive orders included one telling the State Department to prepare the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer for submission to the Senate,…
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Suspect Science Threatens US Farming – Again
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2021 (Feb. 14, 2021) — Modern American agriculture has wrought miracles over the past 70 years. Conventional farm production per acre and overall nearly tripled, corn (maize) production increased 500% from 20% less land – and farmers used less water, less fuel, less fertilizer, and fewer pesticides and other chemicals for…
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Government Transparency Should not be Controversial
by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Nov. 22, 2020) — Ballot harvesting, behind-the-curtains ballot counting and other hijinks have made transparency a critical issue this election year. Meanwhile, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency celebrates its fiftieth birthday, political battles continue to rage over the extent of public, executive and congressional oversight, and access to research files, original…
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Revisiting EPA’s Gold King Mine Blowout – Part 2
THE NAVAJO NATION AND NEW MEXICO VS. INCOMPETENCE AND BAD FAITH IN THE USEPA by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Sep. 7, 2020) — On August 5, five years to the day after suffering from a 3-million-gallon spill of heavy-metal-laden toxic wastewater from Colorado’s Gold King Mine, the State of Utah announced a settlement of its claims…
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Recalling EPA’s Gold King Mine Disaster – Part 1
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE INFAMOUS BLOWOUT, EPA FINALLY SETTLES WITH UTAH OVER GOLD KING POLLUTION by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Sep. 5, 2020) — On the fifth anniversary of the notorious spill of 3 million gallons of heavily contaminated acid mine water from the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and…
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Trump Right to Contest Prophets of Environmental Doom
“THE BATTLE…WILL NEVER END” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2020 (Jan. 23, 2020) — Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump called for a rejection of “predictions of the apocalypse.” Completely at odds with the warning by 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg at the…
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Why an Energy Efficient Home is Cheaper to Run
“SAVE FOR YEARS TO COME” by Contributor (Sep. 27, 2019) — We are all guilty of wasting energy in our homes every day, often without realizing. Some of the largest energy wasters in the home are TVs on standby or doors left open in winter, letting the heat escape throughout the house causing you to…
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The Humanitarian Hoax of Climate Change II – Debunking the Bunk – Hoax 46
“IF YOU REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH…” by Linda Goudsmit, ©2019, blogging at Pundicity (Sep. 11, 2019) — The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy. The humanitarian hoax of…
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Time to Give Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding a ‘Tremendous Whack’
“CALL A SPADE A SPADE” by: Tom Harris and Dr. Jay Lehr, ©2019 (Aug. 9, 2019) — On Tuesday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Washington) that it be granted intervenor status concerning the litigation launched by environmental groups against the Trump administration’s…
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Time to Talk of Cabbages and Kings…
“THE FREIGHT TRAIN TO POVERTY” July 23, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Classical education was admired, desired, and fairly widespread in years past. It included the “classics,” learning foreign languages – even defunct ones such as Latin and Ancient Greek – and history, philosophy, literature, science, and math. But, more recently classical education was pushed…
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Ending Obama EPA Climate Deception
LET’S FINALLY REVIEW ENDANGERMENT FINDING USED TO JUSTIFY TRILLIONS IN CLIMATE AND ENERGY COSTS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (May 19, 2019) — In December 2009, the Obama Environmental Protection Agency issued its Endangerment Finding (EF) – decreeing that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other “greenhouse gases” (GHGs) endanger the health and welfare of Americans. In the process,…
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Government (-driven) Shutdowns Have Human Consequences
TOO MANY GOVERNMENT REGULATORS BURDEN AND SHUT DOWN PRIVATE-SECTOR BUSINESSES AND JOBS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Feb. 11, 2019) — Many observers praised President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union speech. Some said it was his best ever and one of the best SOTU speeches in history. It celebrated the nation’s progress, extolled its opportunities…
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Prodding Trump’s EPA to Reexamine Endangerment
USE EXTERNAL PRESSURE TO OVERCOME ADMINISTRATION INERTIA ON REVIEWING ENDANGERMENT FINDING by William L. Kovacs, ©2019 (Jan. 6, 2019) — Campaign rhetoric strongly suggested that the Trump Administration would redress the Obama Administration’s insane attempts to regulate every aspect of society in a futile attempt to control nature and climate. President Trump withdrew from the…
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Are Americans Condemning Their Children To Slavery?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2018 (Dec. 23, 2018) — Would you see your children Condemned to slavery When there was a chance You could save them? Would you deny them liberty? Would you deny your family freedom? You cannot fight an enemy if you cannot see him. You…
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Green Energy Wave Coming in Colorado?
“THE REAL KILLER” by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2018, CFACT (Nov. 11, 2018) — The good news is that the fracking-killing Proposition 112 did not pass, but the bad news is that it got 43% of the votes, which in political terms is a lot. Let-wing politicians see this near victory as a mandate for change.…
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Fraudulent Science Behind Radiation Regulations
TOXICOLOGY SCIENTIST DOCUMENTS FRAUD IN NOBEL AWARD FOR “LINEAR NO THRESHOLD” TOXICITY MODEL by Paul Driessen and Dr. Jay Lehr, ©2018 (Nov. 9, 2018) — The 2018 elections underscore the need for bipartisan efforts to address scientific frauds that promote and justify ever more stringent regulations – often to the great detriment of people, patients…
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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…