Myron Ebell

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, H. Sterling Burnett, managing editor of Environment & Climate News speaks with Myron Ebell. Ebell is director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and chair of the Cooler Heads Coalition. Ebell comes on the podcast to discuss the extreme costs and minimal benefits from President Obama’s clean power plan.

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.

PBS aired a “Frontline” episode last night titled “Climate of Doubt.” The show’s producer (but not the host, John Hockenberry) attended Heartland’s Seventh International Conference on Climate Change in May,…