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Jul 11, 2011

Fracking Would Create 100,000 Jobs in New York, Study Reports

Alyssa Carducci

... University, and Natural Resource Economics, Inc. Environmental Impacts Are Minor In addition to... Shale Energy Development , examines fracking s environmental impacts. The authors studied the public records of environmental violations reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection... ...

Apr 25, 2011

Obama EPA Kills More Plans for Domestic Oil Production

James M. Taylor

... of Alaska because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined Shell's planned oil... while the Obama administration and its environmental activist allies frequently assert that production from any particular oil field would not significantly affect oil and gasoline prices, the cumulative effect... ...

Apr 15, 2011

Economy In Jeopardy As Budget Deal Affirms EPA Climate Programs

James M. Taylor

... federal spending cuts. By leaving intact Environmental Protection Agency funds to devise, implement, and enforce carbon dioxide restrictions, the House Republican leadership sowed the seeds of economic catastrophe in last week s federal budget deal, regardless of how much spending they pared from the federal... ...

Apr 11, 2011

Texans Protest Greenhouse Gas Restrictions at EPA Hearing

D. Brady Nelson

... Congress and state officials vigorously protested Environmental Protection Agency global warming regulations during a recent... General Greg Abbott, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Chairman Bryan Shaw, and... Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the Texas Public Policy... ...

Apr 4, 2011

My New Paper on the Economics and Science of Climate Change

Alan Carlin

... published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, a peer... Air Act , prepared for the US Environmental Protection Agency in early 2009, by presenting an expanded version of a few portions of that material in journal article format, incorporating many new or updated... ...

Apr 1, 2011

The Senate's EPA Vote Will Help Determine Our Economic Future

James M. Taylor

... that would delay or block the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing carbon dioxide restrictions on the U.S. economy. As our economy struggles to break free from a very difficult economic downturn, this may well be the most important vote these senators make when it comes to America s economic future... ...

Feb 9, 2011

The Status of Renewable Electricity Mandates in the States

Renewable electricity mandates are causing electricity prices to increase and killing jobs in the states that have enacted them. As of January 2011, 29 states have enacted renewable electricity mandates and another seven have enacted renewable electricity goals. In addition to raising electricity prices, the majority of states ...

Feb 1, 2011

EPA’s McCarthy Strikes Defiant Tone About Global Warming Regulations

James M. Taylor

...As Congress considers legislation to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency s power to regulate greenhouse gases... the 14th Annual Energy, Utility, and Environment Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. McCarthy vowed... heartland.org ) is managing editor of Environment & Climate News.... ...

Jan 26, 2011

Will 'Frackophobia' Kill America’s Resurgent Oil and Gas Industry?

Bernard L. Weinstein

... seeping into regulation and legislation. Some environmental groups are claiming that the chemicals... s more, careful studies by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Ground Water Protection Council haven't revealed a single case of drinking water contamination from shale gas drilling itself... ...

Oct 19, 2010

Mankind Has an Insignificant Impact on the Climate of Planet Earth

Jay Lehr

Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant. On the contrary it makes crops and forests grow faster. Mapping by satellite shows that the earth has become about 6% greener overall in the past two decades, with forests expanding into arid regions. The Amazon rain forest was the biggest gainer, with two tons of additional biomass per ...

Jun 17, 2010

The Economics of Global Warming Policy

Ben Lieberman

... do much more economic harm than environmental good, just as the Environmental Protection Agency s recent global warming regulations are bound to do. Such measures kill jobs and impose high costs on the American people all to make a negligible impact on an overstated threat. On May 17, 2010, Heritage... ...

Jun 17, 2010

EPA Makes Fraudulent Cap-and-Trade Cost Claims

James M. Taylor

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a report claiming global warming legislation being considered by the U.S. Senate would cost the average U.S. household between $80 and $150 per year. Proponents of carbon dioxide restrictions are heralding this study to argue American families can easily afford... ...

Apr 6, 2010

Avoiding Carbon Myopia: Three Considerations for Policy Makers Concerning Manmade Carbon Dioxide

Willie Soon and David R. Legates

In December 2009, lawmakers and representatives from around the world, along with scientists, numerous journalists, and various celebrities flew to Copenhagen, Denmark. For the most part, their goal was to promote a regulatory scheme aimed at controlling human carbon emissions by declaring the element a tradable commodity and establishing ...

Mar 30, 2010

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Decline

H. Sterling Burnett

... percent in 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Energy Information... whole fell almost 3 percent. The agencies expect to find emissions fell by... proposed federal legislation, observes Todd Myers, environment director of the Washington Policy Center. Ongoing efficiency improvements... ...

Mar 10, 2010

Los Angeles Electric Rate Linked to Solar Power

Jennifer Steinhauer

... budget shortfall, in the hope of protecting the utility s bond rating. The... of California, referring to the power agency. Professor Borenstein gave the proposed tax... to a rate increase. Californians are environmentally conscious, said Dan Schnur, the director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at... ...

Feb 23, 2010

EPA Says CO2 Permits Required Next Year

James M. Taylor

The Environmental Protection Agency will require the largest stationary sources... who could be affected as your agency moves beyond regulations for greenhouse gas emissions to implement regulations to curtail GHG pollution from stationary sources, Rockefeller explained. In Monday s letter Jackson responded, A... ...

Feb 1, 2010

Farm Bureau Delegates Denounce Cap and Trade

Cheryl K. Chumley

... the authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Air Act as a justification for regulating greenhouse gases. Faulty Science In a press release accompanying the vote, the Farm Bureau condemned cap and trade as a fiscally irresponsible policy that would lead to higher production costs... ...

Jan 12, 2010

Farm Bureau Delegates Send Strong Message

American Farm Bureau

... legislative action that would suspend (the Environmental Protection Agency's) authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act." The 369 delegates, reiterating the theme of a successful campaign kicked off this fall, said: " Don't cap our future." The resolution asserted that proposed cap and trade... ...

Jan 8, 2010

Problems with Wind Power

Dan Miller

... Dec. 28 to allow the state agency that buys electricity on behalf of... cost scheme in the name of environmental correctness (" Illinois Commerce Commission OKs plan... in June, when the Illinois Power Agency incorporates the price of renewable electricity... the ICC: Does it support relaxing environmental... ...

Nov 1, 2009

I Accuse!

Alan Caruba

... Hoax I accuse the United Nations environmental program in general and the Intergovernmental... doing so. I accuse all the environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club... hoax. I accuse the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of falsely asserting carbon dioxide is a pollutant that must be regulated... ...

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