Inhofe urges EPA opponents to lobby their senators on air rule veto
By EPW Blog Thursday, May 17, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Inhofe urges EPA opponents to lobby their senators on air rule veto
Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter
Published: Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Two Democrats have signed on to support a resolution by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) to kill U.S. EPA’s new rule for mercury emissions from power plants, the senator said last night.
Climate NazisBy Alan Caruba Wednesday, May 16, 2012
What is it with the “warmists”, Al Gore and his clones who keep insisting the Earth is warming, that too much carbon dioxide (CO2) will be the death of us, and that we have to immediately stop burning “fossil fuels” if we are to save the planet? They are the most relentless liars on the face of the planet.
They want us to cover the surface of the U.S. with solar panels and the mountains with wind turbines to generate the energy needed for everything we do. These Green energy alternatives are so wonderful they are producing a mere three percent of our current needs, require government subsidies and loan guarantees to exist, and tend not to be all that great when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
What’s Wrong With the SAFE Report?By Institute for Energy Research Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Securing America’s Energy Future (SAFE), a group of corporate CEOs and active and retired military officers with concerns about oil released a report entitled “The New American Oil Boom, Implications for Energy Security” via Its Energy Security Leadership Council.[ia] The report applauds increasing U.S. oil production (96% of which is occurring on non-federal lands) but concludes more supply will not sufficiently enhance energy security. Instead, the report concludes that real security comes from reducing dependence on oil as a transportation fuel, regardless of its source. The study promotes energy security through the following:
Energy Density in the Driver’s SeatBy Institute for Energy Research Wednesday, May 16, 2012
What is driving U.S. energy policy? One might say Obama, Jackson, Salazar, or even Holdren—or any politician whose visible hand redirects the market’s invisible hand.
Convenient Lies and Governance of the Earth
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh Tuesday, May 15, 2012
“The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.” (Tenth Amendment)
While the people of Tombstone, Arizona are waiting to get water back on line, the federal government is asking them for $80,000 in order to tell them why they cannot have it back unless they use only simple tools to do it with, like hand tools and wheelbarrows. Boulders the size of Volkswagens are trapping the waterlines, buried in some places under 12 ft of mud.
The wheels are coming off the wind energy gravy trainBy Guest Column Monday, May 14, 2012
The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the last twenty years is coming to an end, and those promoting the industry are panicking.
Dems Have “Real Frustration” With Obama War on CoalBy EPW Blog Monday, May 14, 2012
Obama War on Coal:
- Cecil Roberts, the president of the United Mine Workers of America, traveled the country for Barack Obama four years ago. He hoped to persuade skeptical working-class white voters in places like southwestern Virginia and southern Ohio to vote for an African-American with an unusual name. Last month, Mr. Roberts went on a West Virginia radio show with a different message. He compared the way Mr. Obama’s administration has treated the coal industry to the Navy SEALs’ killing of Osama bin Laden. He now says the union might choose not to endorse Mr. Obama and sit out the election instead. Mr. Roberts’s transformation suggests larger problems for Mr. Obama in the coal-producing regions of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, all swing states. The shift is driven largely by anger over Environmental Protection Agency regulations-rules the coal industry says will make it so expensive to operate coal-fired power plants that no more will be built. Mr. Roberts and his union worry the result will be lower demand for coal as electricity-generating capacity shifts away from the fuel. “We’ve been placed in a horrendous position here,” Mr. Roberts said in an interview. “How do you take coal miners’ money and say let’s use it politically to support someone whose EPA has pretty much said, ‘You’re done’?” Danger signs for Mr. Obama appeared as recently as Tuesday, when more than 40% of voters in West Virginia’s Democratic primary cast their ballots for a felon in prison in Texas rather than for the president. Democrats said the result reflected anger at Mr. Obama’s energy policy. WSJ, Trouble in Coal Country for Obama, May 11, 2012
Mark J. Perry: 200 Year Supply Of Oil In One Single Shale FormationBy Steve Milloy Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Green River Formation—an assemblage of over 1,000 feet of sedimentary rocks that lie beneath parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming—contains the world’s largest deposits of oil shale.
What Nordhaus gets wrong about climate change
By Institute for Energy Research Saturday, May 12, 2012
William Nordhaus is a professor at Yale University and one of the pioneers in the economics of climate change. Earlier this year Nordhaus wrote a piece in the New York Review of Books entitled, “Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong.” Because of Nordhaus’ stature in the profession, and because of his supposedly definitive claims, the article was an instant hit in certain circles, even being assigned by economics professors as an excellent introduction to the case for policy activism to fight climate change. Yet as I’ll demonstrate in this post, Nordhaus’ position isn’t nearly as airtight as he leads the reader to believe. There really are good reasons for being skeptical of massive government intervention to fight climate change.
EIA Releases Study on Proposed Clean Air StandardBy Institute for Energy Research Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) just released another study on a Clean Energy Standard proposed by Senator Bingaman,[ia] the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The result is the same as before—a “Clean Energy Standard” drives up the cost of electricity.[ii]
Inhofe cautions against wasting limted DOD funds on green energyBy EPW Blog Thursday, May 10, 2012
Link to Press Release
Inhofe: Panetta Global Warming Remarks Show Need for More Congressional Oversight
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During today’s Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) proposed budget for the Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, expressed concerns to U.S. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, USA Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Adm. Mark E. Ferguson III, USN Vice Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., USMC Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, and U.S. Gen. Phillip M. Breedlove, USAF Vice Chief of Staff, regarding the risks of a limited defense budget that drastically reduces troop forces and delays the modernization of weapon systems.
Inhofe Highlights Increasing Concern with EPA Water OverreachBy EPW Blog Thursday, May 10, 2012
Link to Press Release
S. 2245, the Preserve the Waters of the US Act
H.R. 4965, Guidance on Identifying Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act
Watch Inhofe Senate Floor Remarks
Washington, DC - Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, last night spoke on the Senate floor highlighting increasing bipartisan concerns about the overreach of the Water Office at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the speech, Inhofe said that despite recent Supreme Court rulings that EPA exceeded its authority, news editorials criticizing the EPA for “abuse,” and growing bipartisan Congressional efforts to rein in the agency, EPA officials are saying “Internally, it’s same old, same old.”
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