EPA’s Lisa Jackson resigns
Lisa Jackson, who presided over the promulgation of an explosive growth of regulations at EPA announced today that she is stepping down.
Media Release: CFACT sends delegation to COP18
CFACT's delegates to COP 18, the UN climate conference, are your eyes, ears and voice in Doha, Qatar, Will Obama try and push the U.S. into a binding UN treaty? Will Lord Monckton jump out of another plane? Read CFACT's media advisory and then follow all the developments at CFACT.org/Qatar.
CFACT takes on UN climate summit in Qatar
CFACT is headed to the Arabian Peninsula -- to Doha, Qatar, for COP18, the UN Conference on Climate Change. The Obama administration is set to begin its first major UN climate negotiation since reelection. EPA already has crippling regulations lined up and ready to go to give the UN's climate campaigners by administrative fiat what they could not achieve through the open legislative process. The main threat is that Obama will cut side deals and agreements in Qatar and then bypass Congress and its vexing checks, balances and democratic process. Is there any limit to Presiden Obama's renewed hubris? Would he, could he dare to use this Qatar conference to set the stage to bind the United States to a full-blown UN climate treaty and then use brinksmanship to push it through this Senate, or the next? Follow every development as it happens on our Qatar action page,
Tough election: what next?
Green extremists are already more emboldened than ever. Only minutes after his victory President Obama, who avoided global warming throughout the campaign like the pox, threw them a bone when he chimed, "we want our kids to grow up in a world...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of the warming planet." At CFACT, we have work to do.
Fractured fairy tales
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have boosted shale gas production from zero a few years ago to 10% of all US energy supplies in 2012, observes energy analyst Daniel Yergin. Fracking has also increased US oil production 25% since 2008 – almost all on state and private lands, and in the face of more federal land and resource withdrawals, permitting delays and declining public land production.
Election Campaigns Prove Global Warming Crisis Skeptics Won The Climate Debate
Maybe it has been a smart idea for the Democrats to go a bit light on the president’s record on climate and energy achievements after all, and concentrate their message on really critical matters…like switching from subsidies for green energy to subsidies for Sesame Street and contraceptives for female law students. And hey, why not let the planet heal itself just as it always has, even before Obama took charge?
Leaked emails expose Obama’s crony Green capitalism
A trove of over 150 emails released late Wednesday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform reveals crony capitalism at the highest levels of government. The emails show that the loans given to failed companies like Solyndra, Abound Solar, A123, and other failed companies were pushed through for political reasons by Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu, Vice President Biden, and even President Obama himself.
Refining Administration’s slick oil import figures
Is America importing less oil today than it did four years ago? Well, that is certainly the claim of the President who cites this drop as a major accomplishment of his Administration.
Obama vs. Romney on gasoline
Initially, President Obama passed on the gasoline price issue, but Governor Romney picked it back up, noting that, "When the President took office, the price of gasoline here in Nassau County was about $1.86 a gallon. Now it's $4.00 a gallon." Obama had to agree on the prices, but had some very interesting things to say about what they meant.
Obama vs. Romney on oil and natural gas
President Obama boasts that, "We have increased oil production to the highest levels in 16 years. Natural gas production is the highest it’s been in decades." What's this "we" stuff? Romney counters, "the president’s right in terms of the additional oil production, but none of it came on federal land. As a matter of fact, oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land, and gas production was down 9 percent.
Obama vs. Romney on coal
President Obama said, "We have seen increases in coal production and employment" during his term. Governor Romney retorted that, "I was in coal country. People grabbed my arms and said, 'Please save my job.' The head of the EPA said, 'You can’t build a coal plant. You’ll virtually -- it’s virtually impossible given our regulations.'
Obama still believes in climate change
The Hill reported today that President Obama has not wavered in his commitment to reducing carbon dioxide levels and fighting man-made climate change: "Activists with President Obama’s campaign are trying to dampen criticism from environmentalists who say global warming has been given short shrift in the 2012 presidential race."
What is ethical energy and why aren’t the candidates talking about it?
From Ron Arnold's article in The Washington Examiner: "To get some perspective on this exchange, I called Marc Morano, communications director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a positive voice on environment and development issues. Morano told me about his Climate Depot project and its current campaign, 'Ethical Energy.'"
Winners and losers energy policies
Governor Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the foundation of renewed US employment and prosperity. President Obama is waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and efforts to end our economic recession and reduce dependence on Middle Eastern and Russian oil.
Morano debates bankrupt A123 & Green stimulus on Fox
Marc Morano, editor of CFACT's Climate Depot, appeared on Fox Business News to discuss the bankruptcy of taxpayer-backed battery maker A123. "The Obama administration tried to become a venture capitalist and create a market where none exists," said Morano.