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EPA action endangers good public policy

Advocates of climate change have become increasingly shrill in their alarmist claims of doom and gloom lately, arguing in recent weeks (as reported in CFACT’s Climate Depot) that global warming will kill millions through droughts and floods, bring humanity back to the Stone Age, and (perhaps even most troubling) is responsible for costing Tiger Woods a U.S. Open championship. Incredibly, they are quick to ridicule any skeptic who would question their alarmist cries, and some even advocate putting such nay-sayers on trial for “crimes against humanity.” Now comes word that EPA might have gone so far as to mute a [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2009-07-08T08:46:14-04:00July 8th, 2009|Comments Off

Time to re-engage debate on global warming science

To a large degree, the debate over global warming has been confined to the realm of science vs. economics. Anyone viewing the House debate over the Waxman-Markey bill could not miss how proponents of the legislation relied upon their unyielding belief that the “science is settled” with respect to climate change, and how the planet is imperiled from a rapidly warming planet. On the other hand, opponents of the legislation cited endless studies and statistics about the economic damage that would ensue should this far-reaching legislation become law. Lost in the debate, however, was any substantive discussion of the actual [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2009-07-08T08:36:41-04:00July 8th, 2009|Comments Off

New EPA rules will raise electricity rates

Paul Driessen, with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, submits comments to the Federal Government in response to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act (CAA), issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and published in the Federal Register on July 30, 2008. Based on its careful analysis of this ANPR and its likely impacts on American businesses, jobs, minorities, low and fixed income families, and others, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow concludes that EPA should not make an endangerment finding or promulgate these proposed rules. Such an action would have [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:34:07-04:00December 1st, 2008|Comments Off