Opposition to onshore and offshore wind spans the political spectrum to include environmentalists, chambers of commerce, fishermen, Native American tribes, ferry operators, airport commissions, business groups, municipalities, and homeowners.
Offshore wind work would cease as Congress probes its liabilities.
Host Gabriella Hoffman details a sampling of the good, the bad, and the ugly regarding conservation and energy legislation introduced in the 117th Congress so far.
Politicians are notoriously short-term thinkers.
"The Green New Deal has very little to do with the environment or climate... Global warming is merely the latest environmental scare with the same solutions of wealth redistribution and central planning."
Exempting China and India from abiding to the non-binding deal is one of the main reasons why greenhouse gas emission are pitching upward, Environmental rules in the U.S. are causing companies to shift production to countries not tethered to the accord’s strict provisions.
The CPC budget features taxes on carbon dioxide (CO2), huge increases in green energy subsidies and new cash to enforce Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. It would add another $9.9 trillion to the national debt by 2026.
CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen outlines six stratgegies through which the Obama Administration is using climate change to “fundamentally transform” America. THey are attacking dissenters, trying to censor skeptical speech, and worse.
With several options available to support the nation’s highways, Congress needs to create, innovate, and unify in fixing problems—like the HTF—and show America that they can do it without raising taxes.
Marita Noon cites the recent Supreme Court decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as providing a cause for litigation against the EPA's proposed regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The key sentences in Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion are these: "When an agency claims to discover in a long-extant statute an unheralded power to regulate 'a significant portion of the American economy' . . . we typically greet its announcement with a measure of skepticism. We expect Congress to speak clearly if it wishes to assign an agency decisions of vast 'economic and political significance'.”
Dr. Patrick Moore: "I am confident that history will bear me out, both in terms of the futility of relying on computer models to predict the future, and the fact that warmer temperatures are better than colder temperatures for most species."