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More fraudulent science from EPA

The EPA is at it again -- using fraudulent science to justify lowering automotive sulfur content from 30 ppm to 10 ppm -- after already reducing the sulfur allowable from 300 to 30 ppm just since 2004. EPA makes the bold, fraudulent claim that the rules will cost consumers less than a penny a gallon. Meanwhile, EPA has doled out $181 million to 15 of its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee members in grants since 2000, which hardly makes them independent. CFACT's Paul Driessen makes a strong case for ending million-dollar payoffs to advisory groups and much more effective legislative and judiciary oversight of unaccountable government agenices like the EPA.

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Paul Driessen

|2014-03-31T14:58:18-04:00March 31st, 2014|Comments Off

Flight of the honeybees’ commercial keepers

Almond lovers must also be bee lovers, and it takes 1.5 million beehives to ensure the annual California almond crop -- 80% of the world's total. But risk, mites, and disease plague hives -- and the convergence of so many bees creates a hotbed of viruses and pathogens. This -- and not neonicotinoid pesticides -- is the most likely threat to bee populations in the U.S. Part 2 will explain this in more detail.

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Paul Driessen

|2014-03-25T17:36:56-04:00March 24th, 2014|Comments Off

EPA ban on wood stoves is freezing out rural America

The EPA may as well have declared war on rural America, given the inflexibility of its new rules that heavily restrict the use and purchae of wood stoves. Fellow Greens are also imposing bans and restrictions on fireplaces that burn wood -- even in rural areas. Much of this dirty work is the result of "Sue and Settle" lawsuits, in which friendly Green groups sue the EPA over some technical point in the law knowing full well that a deal has already been struck for the EPA to settle the lawsuity and be thus "forced" to impose heavy burdens on the American people -- who have not had their day in court to defend their longstanding practices. Star Chamber or Kangaroo Court -- take your pick.

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Larry Bell

|2014-01-30T15:54:30-05:00January 29th, 2014|357 Comments

Can ecosystems be priced?

While most people consider nature to be priceless, economists have recently attempted to place dollar values on the services ecosystems provide.

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Craig Rucker

|2014-04-14T16:42:13-04:00December 25th, 2013|Comments Off

Ethanol mandate fueling habitat loss

In 2007, Congress passed a law requiring oil companies to blend billions of gallons of ethanol into gasoline. This so-called “ethanol mandate” wiped out millions of acres of conservation land and destroyed wildlife habitat.

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Craig Rucker

|2014-04-08T17:23:00-04:00December 24th, 2013|Comments Off

Alaska’s “Rat Island” successfully reclaimed for native species

Eradicating rats from a building can often be difficult. But how about eliminating them from an entire island?

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Craig Rucker

|2014-03-14T15:39:41-04:00November 25th, 2013|3 Comments

Sahel desert latest example of global warming hype

One of the latest scares about global warming comes from a new report claiming that climate change is causing drought and killing trees across the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. But according to an article in Forbes by James Taylor, this is surprising news to many scientists and Sahel experts.

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Craig Rucker

|2014-02-21T12:29:41-05:00November 11th, 2013|Comments Off

Mining policy designed to benefit our own: Mighty rare

With China controlling 85% of the world's production of rare earth elements, the rest of the world -- and in particular, the U.S. economy -- is beholden to China for its own natioanl security and the future of its high-tech economy. This could change with a determined effort to overcome environmentalist objections and reinvigorate U.S. production of many of these valuable minerals. But will enough politicians decide that jobs and security are more valuable than keeping minerals-bearing domestic lands "pristine"?

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Marita Noon

|2013-11-05T15:41:00-05:00November 5th, 2013|1 Comment

Green energy spending bad for economy, environment

Is taxpayer money spent on Green energy hurting both the economy and environment? Well that’s the assertion of economists from the group PERC, who in a recent study found that for every $100 billion a government spends on so-called “clean energy,” that nation’s GDP is likely to decrease by nearly a half a percent.

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Craig Rucker

|2014-01-30T14:30:06-05:00October 31st, 2013|Comments Off

The environmental benefits of offshore drilling

What can we do to clean up our oceans? Well one surprising answer may be to open up our coastlines to more offshore oil drilling, according to Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

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Craig Rucker

|2013-10-21T16:36:41-04:00October 17th, 2013|Comments Off

Fracking is “climate friendly, environmentally safe, and economically stimulating”

Environment America's Margie Alt has found a new "cause" to enrich her group's coffers: scaring the bejeesus out of Americans by claiming that fracking has a "damaging footprint." Alt's group, oddly enough, is at odds with kjey Obama Administation officials. And yet, this lemming-like movement is gaining ground!

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Marita Noon

|2013-10-11T13:30:28-04:00October 7th, 2013|4 Comments

Down Under turning right side up on carbon and climate!

Australians threw out the government that forced the carbon tax upon them as soon as they got the chance. Who will learn from the Aussie example?

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Larry Bell

|2013-09-30T17:56:22-04:00September 29th, 2013|2 Comments

Environmentalists Sue to Stop Arizona Mine

In the latest development surrounding the proposed Rosemont mine in southern Arizona, two environmental groups – the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Save the Scenic Santa Ritas (SSSR) – filed suit August 16 to overturn a key state permit the project recently received.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2013-09-12T15:27:42-04:00September 6th, 2013|2 Comments

Who paid for the golden rice eco-attack?

Activists attacked and destroyed a field of “golden rice” in Pili, Camarines Sur in the Philippines. If Greenpeace and those who follow their lead continue their misanthropic attempts to thwart the scientific development and evaluation of golden rice, they position themselves squarely against the progress of science. The blindness and death of millions will be on their heads.

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CFACT Ed

|2013-08-21T18:10:20-04:00August 21st, 2013|44 Comments

DDT ban linked to population control

Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World Revisited (1958), warns that the danger to civilization posed by Third World overpopulation would lead to communist revolution, attacking DDT as an important contributor: “We go to a tropical island…and with the aid of DDT we stamp out malaria, and in two or three years, save hundreds of thousands of lives.” Huxley continued that: “This is obviously good, But the hundreds of thousands of human beings thus saved, and the millions whom they beget and bring to birth, cannot be adequately clothed, housed, educated or fed out of the island’s available resources. Quick death by malaria has been abolished; but life made miserable by undernourishment and over-crowding is now the rule, and death by outright starvation threatens ever greater numbers.”

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Larry Bell

|2013-08-11T14:22:49-04:00August 11th, 2013|5 Comments