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No Fine If Wind Farm Kills Endangered Condors — Fish and Wildlife Service
On May 17, 2013 03:36PM ET in Global Warming
Should industrial wind facilities have to pay a $100,000 fine – as oil and gas companies do – if they kill an endangered species? Many environmental activists think so. The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) does not. In a reversal of its official opinion, the FWS recently announced “it will not penalize the operator of a Southern California [...]
Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part II: Fuel Economy
On May 15, 2013 03:17PM ET in Global Warming
Gina McCarthy — President Obama’s nominee to succeed Lisa Jackson as EPA Administrator — is often described as “straight shooter” and “honest broker.” Is that reputation deserved? Last week, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) released a 123 page document containing McCarthy’s responses to hundreds of questions on a wide range of issues. Part 1 of this series examined McCarthy’s responses to [...]
EPA Demonstrates IRS-like Bias on FOIA Requests
On May 15, 2013 01:14PM ET in Global Warming
Executive branch overreach involving deliberate attempts to silence critics of the administration has become a pressing issue. Several revelations have come to light this week threatening to further cloud the Obama Administration’s claim of being “the most transparent administration in history.” With the IRS facing allegations of deliberately targeting conservative groups, and the Department of [...]
WSJ Op-Ed Explains Benefits of CO2
On May 14, 2013 10:45AM ET in Global Warming
Harrison Schmitt and William Happer wrote an excellent op-ed last week in the Wall Street Journal titled, “In Defense of Carbon Dioxide.” In the op-ed, Schmitt and Happer build a solid case for the benefits, as opposed to costs, occurring from an increase in the much maligned carbon dioxide. Schmitt, who is an Adjunct Professor [...]
Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part I: Bait-and-Fuel-Switch
On May 11, 2013 11:20PM ET in Global Warming
Gina McCarthy — President Obama’s pick to succeed Lisa Jackson as EPA Administrator — is often described as a “straight shooter” and “honest broker.” As my colleague Anthony Ward and I explain in Forbes, McCarthy has a history of misleading Congress about the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulatory agenda. Specifically, McCarthy and the Air Office over which she [...]
CO2 Litigation: Court and EPA Can’t Both Be Right — and Both May Be Wrong
On May 08, 2013 04:43PM ET in Global Warming
Is the Clean Air Act so badly flawed that it will cripple environmental enforcement and economic development alike unless the EPA and its state counterparts defy clear statutory provisions or, alternatively, spend $21 billion annually to employ an additional 320,000 bureaucrats? That is a central issue in a recent lawsuit by Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF), [...]
EPA Doubles Down on E15 — Literally
On May 07, 2013 09:34PM ET in Global Warming
The Soviet-style production quota for ethanol, pompously titled the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), is in trouble. The RFS requires more ethanol to be sold than can actually be blended into the nation’s motor fuel supply. This “blend wall” problem will get worse as RFS production quota and federal fuel economy standards ratchet up, forcing refiners to blend more and [...]
Senate Schedules Vote for EPA Nominee
On May 04, 2013 09:51AM ET in Global Warming
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has scheduled a vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for the morning of Thursday, 9th May. All the Democrats on the committee will vote for McCarthy. Since they hold a ten to eight majority over Republicans, it is certain [...]
Biofuels Policy Itself is Warning That It’s Near Breaking Point
On May 01, 2013 12:55PM ET in Global Warming
[Below is a guest post by Bill Lapp & Dave Juday] Millions of American motorists across all income levels could be impacted this year by an indirect fuel tax that could amount to as much as $11.5 billion, all due to failures of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) — the nation’s flawed biofuels mandate. Under [...]
Hansen Compares Conservatives and Climate Change Skeptics to Neanderthals
On May 01, 2013 10:17AM ET in Global Warming
In a recent interview with CBC Radio, global warming alarmist and former NASA Climate Science director, James Hansen, compared conservatives to “Neanderthals”. Hansen’s remarks were prompted in response to comments made by Joe Oliver who is a conservative politician and the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources. Speaking at the Center for Strategic Studies last week, [...]
Why Is Congress Lethargic about Energy?
On Apr 24, 2013 10:54PM ET in Global Warming
This week National Journal’s Energy Experts Blog poses the question: “What’s holding back energy & climate policy.” So far 13 wonks have posted comments including yours truly. What I propose to do here is ‘revise and extend my remarks’ to provide a clearer, more complete explanation of Capitol Hill’s energy lethargy. To summarize my conclusions in advance, [...]
Earth Day: The Greener Side of Growth
On Apr 22, 2013 03:25PM ET in Global Warming
It may not be a popular fact, but a fact it is: the environment is getting cleaner, and it has since about the mid-20th century. The question is, what caused this improvement? How can we keep it going? Over at Topix.com, my colleague Geoffrey McLatchey and I argue that the best answer for both questions [...]
President Obama’s Budget Proposes to Make Wind and Solar Subsidies Permanent
On Apr 22, 2013 09:18AM ET in Global Warming
President Barack Obama submitted his proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget to Congress on 10th April, 66 days after the legal deadline. The law does not subject the President to any penalties for missing the 4th February deadline, but no previous President has submitted his proposed budget more than a few days late. The budget proposes [...]
Electric Vehicles: Worst Business Model Ever?
On Apr 22, 2013 09:12AM ET in Global Warming
Fisker Automotive, an electric car manufacturer that received $211 million in stimulus subsidies, last week filed for bankruptcy. A Fisker electric car cost $103,000, but the company spent $660,000 for each one it sold, according to Bloomberg. Chrysler CEI Sergei Marchionne told the Detroit Free Press that losing $557,000 on every case it sold would [...]
EPW Republicans Set Five Markers for McCarthy Confirmation as EPA Administrator
On Apr 20, 2013 08:27AM ET in Global Warming
Senator David Vitter (R-La.), ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter on 16th April to Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency, that re-iterates five requests for information that the agency has withheld from the committee or commitments to increase transparency in the future. The [...]
