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Dirty science in EPA’s war on coal!

When it comes to science policy, the EPA has one simple rule: Don't let the truth get in the way of our political intentions. Perhaps the primary example of this hostile attitude toward the American people is the new EPA proposal to demand that coal-fired power plants reduce harmless carbon dioxide emissions by at least 50% more than is currently technically feasible (and achieving that level is not necessarily commercially feasible). Moreover, the EPA and other federal agencies are also waging war on oil and gas drilling through a variety of mostly indirect methods.

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Larry Bell

|2014-01-24T01:37:15-05:00January 24th, 2014|Comments Off

Poland saying “Nie” to Green demands

You've heard us say the UN's decision to have a climate conference in Poland was a big mistake. Poland is not only a nation highly skeptical of climate alarmism, but also one that is supportive and heavily reliant on coal and fossil fuels. Poland was probably not going to offer them the reception they were looking for. Now it appears some Greens are coming to a similar conclusion.

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CFACT Ed

|2013-11-15T19:30:14-05:00November 15th, 2013|5 Comments

CFACT provides expert testimony at EPA coal hearings from coast to coast

EPA has been holding public hearings on coal energy around the country. CFACT's Duggan Flanakin, Bonner Cohen, and Paul Driessen took the microphone in Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.to ensure some hard facts make into EPA's record. CFACT Collegians brought the fight to sessions in Atlanta and Seattle. EPA's new rules which, which effectively shut down every coal-fired power plant in the country at a cost of hundreds of thousands of jobs and forcing electricity rates to skyrocket -- are a very bad investment and should be thrown down the toilet.

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Duggan Flanakin

|2013-11-09T17:06:07-05:00November 9th, 2013|11 Comments

J’accuse! EPA’s carbon dioxide regulations would endanger public health and welfare

At an October 23 hearing in Atlanta called by EPA to solicit public comments about "reducing carbon pollution" from existing stationary power plants, Dr. James Rust of the Heartland Institute joined several CFACT Collegians in providing testimony. Dr. Rust noted that these EPA rules would be both damaging to the economy and dangerous to public health and welfare -- and are wholly unneeded.

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James Rust

|2013-10-30T11:42:38-04:00October 30th, 2013|Comments Off

Sign the petition: Demand affordable energy for America!

Take action! EPA's new regulations would kill America's abundant supply of affordable coal energy based entirely on over-hyped global warming junk science. We cannot let this stand! Demand President Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy stop their war on affordable American energy now!

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CFACT Ed

|2013-11-11T12:00:34-05:00October 26th, 2013|3 Comments

One promise Obama is keeping: Killing coal so energy prices will skyrocket!

When Presidential candidate Barack Obama said in 2008 that under his energy plan, "electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket," he wasn't kidding! His new EPA carbon capture scheme is not designed to work but to force coal plants to shut down forever.

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Larry Bell

|2013-10-02T11:01:15-04:00October 1st, 2013|5 Comments

DOE: Fossil fuels to dominate next 30 years

President Obama recently stated “We’ve got to look at the energy sources of the future.” And while he was specifically pointing to wind and solar power, it appears he’s overlooking what his own Department of Energy recently reported will dominate the next 30 years of energy production – namely fossil fuels.

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Craig Rucker

|2013-10-03T13:59:12-04:00September 30th, 2013|1 Comment

EPA is waging its war on coal under false pretenses

It is one thing for EPA to further restrict emissions of air toxins and contaminants -- It is far different to claim that science justifies a war on carbon dioxide emissions.

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Craig Rucker

|2013-09-28T09:48:14-04:00September 27th, 2013|8 Comments

Obama’s war on energy is NOT “unbelievably small” at all!

Look closely at the energy-related news stories of the past dozen or so days, and, between the lines, you’ll see a theme: government makes predictions and assertions that cannot be backed up by data to protect or project preferred messaging.

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Marita Noon

|2013-09-26T17:39:20-04:00September 23rd, 2013|2 Comments

Environmentalists want you powerless

With nearly 300 power plants scheduled to be shut down in the next few years, and with environmentalists both opposing any form of electricity generation that is effective, efficient, and economical and to mining the raw materials needed to build the wind turbines, solar arrays and other "renewables" they claim to want—only one conclusion can be made: Environmentalists want you powerless.

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Marita Noon

|2013-08-19T13:05:49-04:00August 19th, 2013|24 Comments

Reagan vs. Obama: Not even close on energy policy

Obama doesn’t believe in the technology, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit of Americans, Pendley told me. He believes in big government and its regulations. Pendley points out how he’s given the environmentalists a seat at the table where Reagan denied them the moral high ground. When the environmentalists—who for the previous two decades had been cloaked with an aura of inevitability, invincibility, and infallibility—said they “spoke for the planet and the needs of all living things not human,” Reagan responded: he “spoke for the dream of the American people and for the unborn generations to be free and prosperous.”

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Marita Noon

|2013-08-13T13:35:41-04:00August 13th, 2013|1 Comment

Obama’s global warming plan heats up debate

President Obama recently announced a sweeping plan to combat global warming by massively regulating coal power plants. CFACT senior policy analyst Paul Driessen says this would be a mistake, and here explains why.

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Craig Rucker

|2013-09-05T13:58:45-04:00August 7th, 2013|Comments Off

Obama’s climate action plan: a millstone around America’s neck?

Current EPA regulations are already closing coal-fueled power plants at an alarming rate—which New Mexico Public Regulations Commissioner Pat Lyons calls “the real energy crisis that no one is talking about.... Progressive thought leaders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhous state: “Energy poverty causes more harm to the poor than global warming” and cheap energy “makes the poor vastly less vulnerable to climate impacts.”

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Marita Noon

|2013-07-01T20:07:59-04:00July 1st, 2013|6 Comments

Obama’s Climate Initiative: A Green Elitist Assault on Ordinary Citizens

By circumventing Congress and unleashing the vast powers of the administrative regulatory state in the name of combating “climate change,” President Obama has – yet again – revealed his determination to subject the American people to the unchecked whims of the federal bureaucracy.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2013-06-27T17:13:17-04:00June 26th, 2013|3 Comments

Sierra Club whines that clean coal costs too much?!

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity presents an even gloomier future for coal than the EIA projects. They predict that more than 280 coal-fired generating units are set to be shut down, partly due to stricter EPA regulations. And according to a report released by the National Economic Research Associates, seven new EPA regulations are expected to cost the electrical sector $16.7 billion per year, cause 887,000 job losses annually, and eliminate 69 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity.

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Larry Bell

|2013-10-17T11:48:39-04:00June 14th, 2013|3 Comments