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The Ethanol Tax Credit-Even Worse Than You Think
Harry de Gorter & Jerry Taylor, MasterResource.org, 6 August 2010
Enviros Scheme for a Backdoor Kyoto
Evan Lehman, ClimateWire, 6 August 2010
Will New Jersey Governor Do the Right Thing on Cap-and-Trade
Phil Kerpen, Fox Forum, 4 August 2010
The Car of the Future? SUV Sales Back to 50%
Henry Payne, Planet Gore, 4 August 2010
Cap-and-Trade: It’s the Cost, Stupid
Vincent Carroll, Denver Post, 4 August 2010
Snobby and Foolish Electric Car Subsidies
Charles Lane, Slate, 1 August 2010
The…
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Department of Environmental Quality Chairman Bryan Shaw yesterday sent this strongly worded letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, regarding the Obama administration’s intention to regulate greenhouse gases.
Some background: As has been noted repeatedly by my colleague Marlo Lewis, the Obama administration’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is a runaway train. In a nutshell, the administration wants to pick and choose which sections of the Clean Air Act apply to greenhouse gases, but…
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Brownback Mountain
William Yeatman & Iain Murray, National Review Online, 30 July 2010
The Carbon Footprint of Obama’s Detroit Trip
Henry Payne, Planet Gore, 30 July 2010
NOAA To Skeptics: We’re Right, You Can’t Deny It
Richard Morrison, OpenMarket.org, 29 July 2010
Has the BP Spill Been Overblown?
Michael Grunwald, Time, 29 July 2010
Energy Bills Could Include Trans-Atlantic Tax
Iain Murray & Matthew Sinclair, Washington Times, 27 July 2010
Muir Russell Findings Are No Solace for EPA
Chip Knappenberger, MasterResource.org, 27 July 2010
Desperate Days for Warmists
Christopher Booker,…
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Announcements
Don Blankenship, Chairman and CEO of Massey Energy Company, gave a great talk at the National Press Club this week on energy realities versus global warming fantasy as well as some other topics. It was broadcast on C-Span and can be viewed online.
Americans for Prosperity’s New Jersey chapter is building support for legislation to withdraw New Jersey from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a regional cap-and-trade energy rationing scheme. Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll and Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose introduced A3147,…
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Here’s something I didn’t expect: Quite a few “green” journalists on the energy policy beat have concluded that President Barack Obama’s moratorium on new drilling in the Gulf is seriously flawed. To be sure, the LA Times editorial board has come out in favor of an extended drilling ban, but among reporters who have spent time in Louisiana, there’s an acknowledgment that the moratorium is hurting livelihoods.
I was recently in Dallas, and there I had the opportunity to speak with a broadcast…
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In the News
Beyond the Oil Spill
Mario Loyola, National Review, 2 August 2010
A Free Market Energy Vision
Robert Bradley, MasterResource.org, 16 July 2010
Another Rig Leaves the Gulf
Greg Pollowitz, Planet Gore, 15 July 2010
In Contempt of Court
William Murchison, American Spectator, 15 July 2010
Killing the Green Wave
Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun, 14 July 2010
Climategate and the Big Green Lie
Clive Crook, The Atlantic, 14 July 2010
For Left, Gore Still Matters
Darren Samuelsohn, Politico, 14 July 2010
Senate Majority Leader Reid: Cap-and-Trade Is Not in My Vocabulary
Marlo Lewis,…
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The Greenhouse Protection Racket
Marlo Lewis, Pajamas Media, 9 July 2010
Climate Change: A Collective Flight from Reality
Roger Helmer, Washington Times, 9 July 2010
Markets, Not Social Values, Should Determine Price of Electricity
William Yeatman & Amy Oliver Cooke, Denver Daily News, 9 July 2010
Climate Clique Looks after Its Own
Gerald Warner, Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2010
Austerity Green: EU Fatigue for Renewables
Matthew Sinclair, Master Resource.org, 7 July 2010
Oil Sands Push Tests U.S.-Canada Ties
Phred Dvorak & Edward Welsch, Wall Street Journal, 7 July…
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The All-American Light Bulb Dims, as Freedom Flickers
Deroy Murdock, National Review, 2 July 2010
A Wellspring of Politics, Not Science
William O’ Keefe, Washington Times, 2 July 2010
Running out of Little Green Countries
Chris Horner, AmSpecBlog, 1 July 2010
Blowout Prevention Act Would Blow Out Domestic Production
Marlo Lewis, GlobalWarming.org, 1 July 2010
The Windsurfer’s Windfall
Max Brindle, American Spectator, 29 June 2010
Everyone Knows…Except the Experts
Henry Payne, Planet Gore, 29 June 2010
They Loved BP & Enron
Robert Bradley, MasterResource.org, 28 June 2010
Is Obama Putting Ideology…
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Back in February 2009, when everyone thought a deep depression was imminent, Keynesian economists and their political boosters demanded big government spending. According to their calculations, a “timely, targeted, and temporary” infusion of taxpayer money would defibrillate our moribund economy, the growth of which would make the trillion-dollar price tag seem like small potatoes. It was elementary!
So the White House pushed, and the Congress passed, a gigantic trillion-dollar stimulus, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It was, however, anything but…
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EU Countries Slashing Green Budgets
Patrice Hill, Washington Times, 25 June 2010
Markets Should Drive Colorado Energy Industry
William Yeatman & Amy Oliver Cooke, Denver Business Journal, 25 June 2010
Can a Carbon Cap Pass?
Myron Ebell, Politico, 25 June 2010
Climate Policy Not as Simple as Gore Thinks
Jim Manzi, The New Republic, 24 June 2010
Paul McCartney Compares Climate Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers
Josh Miller, FoxNews.com, 24 June 2010
A New Low for Science-the Black List
Fran Smith, GlobalWarming.org, 23 June 2010
Obama’s BP Time
Michael Lynch, MasterResource.org,…
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