Legal challenge to EPA’s E15 scheme picks up steam

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plans to allow a controversial blend of gasoline and ethanol to be sold in the U.S. could be headed for rough legal sledding.Federal appeals court judges recently heard a challenge to the Obama EPA’s approval of E15, a blend of 85 percent gasoline and 15 percent ethanol, to be sold in cars from the model year 2001 and newer. EPA claims it has the power under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to grant waivers allowing the sale of the new blend in certain vehicles. Currently, ethanol is not allowed to comprise more than 10 percent of [...]

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|2012-04-23T12:09:58-04:00April 23rd, 2012|Comments Off on Legal challenge to EPA’s E15 scheme picks up steam

Astronauts and scientists send letter to NASA: Stop global warming advocacy

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Blanquita Cullum 703-307-9510 bqview at mac.com Joint letter to NASA Administrator blasts agency’s policy of ignoring empirical evidence HOUSTON, TX – April 10, 2012. 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden last week admonishing the agency for it’s role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change while neglecting empirical evidence that calls the theory into question. The group, which includes seven Apollo astronauts and two former directors of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, are dismayed over the failure [...]

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|2020-05-13T09:43:20-04:00April 10th, 2012|Comments Off on Astronauts and scientists send letter to NASA: Stop global warming advocacy

“PC” power is not “sustainable”

When the President says “all-inclusive,” he means politically correct (PC) “green” energy (wind, solar and bio-fuels), and nothing that actually provides reliable, affordable power – especially not hydrocarbons. Another PC buzzword – “sustainable” – is right out of the United Nation’s Agenda 21 Protocol and the President’s goal of “fundamentally transforming” America.

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|2012-10-25T11:06:13-04:00April 10th, 2012|Comments Off on “PC” power is not “sustainable”

Prospects for better economy at our feet

CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen was cited in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article by Jack Markowitz: "Paul Driessen thinks the new abundance is simply panicking the greenies. Especially those with an economic, as well as emotional, stake in limits to growth."

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|2012-10-25T12:38:14-04:00April 2nd, 2012|Comments Off on Prospects for better economy at our feet

Joe the Plumber: Real American energy could create real American jobs

By Joe the Plumber President Obama supports job creation, economic growth and revenue generation – except when he doesn’t. Official announcements from his Labor Department reported that the nation’s February unemployment rate is still 8.3 percent. That’s a decent decline from previous months. But the reality is far worse.

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|2013-02-11T16:22:40-05:00April 2nd, 2012|Comments Off on Joe the Plumber: Real American energy could create real American jobs

Morano: Celebrate carbon energy, not the darkness!

CFACT's Marc Morano is a regular guest on "The Source," hosted by Ezra Levant on Canada's Sun News channel.  This time, Morano was asked to comment on "Earth Hour," a time when some environmental groups want all of us to turn off the lights and, as Morano says, "celebrate the darkness."  Morano explained to Levant that  the Obama Administration "wants to make affordable energy, more expensive," and they are taking significant action to ensure that energy costs continue to soar.  Some excerpts from his comments: "They are banning coal plants. One of the most moral [energy] choices we have is coal fired power in the [...]

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|2012-03-31T00:00:00-04:00March 31st, 2012|Comments Off on Morano: Celebrate carbon energy, not the darkness!

Fracking: An existential threat to green dogma

The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to “stop fracking in its tracks.” No wonder. The technology is an existential threat to fundamental “green” dogmas.

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|2012-10-25T12:29:02-04:00March 29th, 2012|6 Comments

Obama EPA enacts cap-and-trade agenda

In its latest move to drive up the cost of energy to consumers, businesses, and manufacturers, the Obama EPA March 27 issued a final rule regulating greenhouse-gas emissions from electric utilities. EPA’s action will effectively ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants. Under the rule, no new power plant will be allowed to emit more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. On average, U.S. coal plants emit 1,768 pounds of CO2 per megawatt of electricity. The rule requires future plants to use as yet non-existent carbon capture and control technologies to cut their emissions to [...]

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|2012-10-22T20:26:49-04:00March 28th, 2012|2 Comments

Judge slams EPA for illegal power grab

A federal judge March 23 ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstepped its authority when it revoked a permit for Arch Coal Inc. to proceed with its controversial Spruce No. 1 mining operation in the Appalachian mountains.In 2007, Arch Coal obtained a “dredge and fill” permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allowing it to move forward with the Spruce No. 1 mine in rural Logan County, West Virginia. But in January 2011, EPA revoked the permit, arguing that the project would do significant harm to streams and watershed areas near the mine. The Spruce Mine had been the [...]

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|2012-03-27T12:38:07-04:00March 27th, 2012|Comments Off on Judge slams EPA for illegal power grab

Supreme Court rebukes EPA in landmark property rights case

By Dr. Jeff EdgensProperty rights in America are sinking to the bottom of a regulatory swamp. The biggest threat to property rights is unchallenged bureaucratic decisions that command property owners to do the bidding of the EPA while not allowing those citizens the opportunity to be heard. One couple caught in this legal quagmire is Mike and Chantell Sackett, of Priest Lake, Idaho, where they bought property in 2008 to build the home of their dreams. They secured all of the necessary permits and began work to fill the land and to prepare the site for the construction of their lake [...]

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|2012-03-23T07:27:02-04:00March 23rd, 2012|Comments Off on Supreme Court rebukes EPA in landmark property rights case

The Keystone Kibosh: Marc Morano on Canadian TV

[March 9, 2012]  In the wake of  President Obama's decision to block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to bring Canadian crude oil to refineries in Texas and Louisiana, Jerry Agar of Sun News (Canada) interviewed CFACT Communications Director Marc Morano.  Morano, who launched the Climate Depot website in 2009 and is a key player in CFACT's new "Real Energy, Not Green Energy" campaign, says the President is merely fulfilling his own promise to eliminate the use of carbon-based fuels in the United States that started with the cancellation of oil leases in Colorado, seized upon the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to cripple [...]

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|2012-03-11T16:45:00-04:00March 11th, 2012|Comments Off on The Keystone Kibosh: Marc Morano on Canadian TV

Another solar energy boondoggle

In the early days of 2008, as then-Sen. Barack Obama was running for president, he made many promises to the American people. Among them was his repeated pledge that lobbyists would not have unlimited access to his administration. Fast forward to October 2011 and the appointment of current Commerce Secretary John Bryson.

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|2012-10-25T12:41:19-04:00March 8th, 2012|Comments Off on Another solar energy boondoggle

Green jobs gone with the wind

Does federal support for the U.S. wind industry create large numbers of green jobs?

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|2012-10-31T16:46:55-04:00March 2nd, 2012|2 Comments

A not-so-bright solar mandate

That solar energy has its supporters is news to no one. But that some might mandate its use for average citizens, and fine them $1,500 for noncompliance might seem a bit over the top.

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|2012-10-31T16:47:32-04:00February 29th, 2012|Comments Off on A not-so-bright solar mandate

EPA has lost its way on warming

Legal challenges by states and industry groups over the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could and should be decided in the challengers’ favor. Whether that will happen in this highly politicized, semi-scientific matter of “dangerous manmade global warming and climate change” remains to be seen. Regardless of what the DC Court of Appeals decides, the case will almost assuredly return to the Supreme Court, where the outcome is equally uncertain.In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court said EPA had the authority (but not the obligation) to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act’s “capacious [...]

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|2012-02-28T14:40:23-05:00February 28th, 2012|Comments Off on EPA has lost its way on warming
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