Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Energy Citizens: Tell EPA to Fix Our Fuel
The 20-40 billion gallons of water used annually by the oil and gas industry for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) pale in comparison to ethanol requirements.
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Why We Still Have Biofuel Mandates
Last Friday the EPA announced a reduction in 2014 biofuel mandates from 18 billion to 15 billion gallons. This decision was made because gasoline consumption has fallen and fuel mixes made with over 10 percent biofuels can damage car engines. But there is more to the story.
Wood-burning Power Plants: Misguided Climate Change Solution?
Is wood the best fuel to generate electricity? Despite wood’s low energy density and high cost, utilities in the US and abroad are switching from coal to wood to produce electrical power. The switch to wood is driven by regulations from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other international organizations. These regulations are based on the false assumption that burning wood reduces carbon dioxide emissions.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Random
Heartland Experts Reject Obama’s Climate Action At Chicago EPA Hearing
Why the concern over President Obama’s Executive Orders? It is human nature that desensitization will creep in as related to frequency, making felt outrage over each successive mandate seem less intense or serious. The result: executive orders are likely to become more frequent and increasingly more extreme in their content in the absence of any serious push back to reign them in.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media · Politics · Science
NRSC Poll Confirms: No One Knows What Carbon Pollution Is
Couple an organization with financial and political incentives to exploit the public’s ignorance of science with the buzzwords “climate pollution” and you get crummy, worthless, and misleading poll results.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
My Testimony at the EPA charade ‘Listening Session’ in Chicago
It’s clear that EPA’s mind is absolutely made up on shutting down America’s coal industry, and these “listening” sessions are just for show.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Heartlanders at EPA Hearing in Chicago: Reject Obama’s Climate Action Plan
The EPA’s proposed rules will kill jobs, shut down factories, companies and industries – and devastate families and communities that depend on coal mining, factory jobs and affordable energy.
SCOTUS Revisits EPA Regulation of CO2
One thing for sure: public policy should not be set by unelected bureaucrats.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Increasing Clouds and Thunderstorms for Climate Alarmists
The alarmists have systematically assaulted and corrupted genuine science.
For Fracking, There’s Plenty of Water to Go Around
While some environmentalists will make is seem like fracking operations are drinking the rivers dry, this is simply not the case.
EPA, IPCC Push Ahead Even as Global Warming Theories Crumble
Ten days ago the EPA issued its proposed rule for the implementation of regulations of carbon dioxide on utilities’ coal-fired power plants. There is no reason for costly government-imposed limits on such emissions, as the global warming they were supposed to cause has been absent for 15 years.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
Lisa Jackson Hires Lawyer for Email Concealment Fiasco
In a sign her troubles have undergone a significant expansion, Lisa Jackson has hired a lawyer as new details of her use of private email accounts to conduct official government business were revealed.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation · Science
It’s Time to Restore EPA’s Original Purpose
A turning point occurred roughly a decade after the creation of EPA. Activist groups realized the agency could be used to alter our government by coming down heavily on all human activities regardless of their impact on the environment.
Fracking Brings Employment
Anti-energy activists promote falsehoods about this vital, safe job-creating technology. They inhabit a callous parallel universe and wage war on cheap energy, jobs, and the poor.
Environment/Energy · Regulation
More EPA Follies: High Summer Gas Prices Thanks to Government Regs
Happy Summer Driving Season! Up to 15-cents-per-gallon of your gasoline costs are due to an insidious law mandating renewable fuel.
Environment/Energy · Podcast · Science
Heartland’s Jay Lehr Talking Energy, Environment, and Ag Issues on WIBW
Jay Lehr on WIBW: “To think that man is more powerful than nature is ludicrous.”
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Fed Fuel Regulations Throw Md., Va. Carnival Cruise Jobs Overboard
The Environmental Protection Agency acts as if every new burdensome demand makes a huge difference for the health and wellbeing of humans, in addition to claims that its costly, excessive regulations upon private business are actual net job creators.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Hot Weather and Climate Change—a Mountain From a Molehill?
The alarm about climate change is all about one degree.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
President Obama’s Climate Initiative—The Bad News and Good News
Contrary to predictions by all 73 of the world’s top climate models, global temperatures have failed to rise over the last 15 years.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Climate Alarmism’s 10,000 Commandments
EPA fiats threaten American lives, livelihoods, living standards and life spans.
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