Comment
Request for comment on the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program,
On February 14, 2002, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with other department and agency heads, to propose improvements in the 1605(b)…
Comment
Specific Comments on Menendez Climate Change Amendment Findings
Finding (1) Evidence continues to build that increases in atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are contributing to global climate change. This statement is pure…
Letters
Letter on Voluntary Reporting Comments
I am writing on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit free-market public policy group based in Washington, D.C. This letter responds to…
Op-Eds
Mandated Mischief: Obama’s 54.5 MPG Standard
President Obama today announced a deal with 13 automakers to boost new-car fuel economy standards from 35.5 mpg in 2016 to 54.5 mpg in…
Blog
The ALEC Controversy — Much Ado About Nothing
Detroit News
Michigan Target of EPA Carbon Diktat
Reuters
Revamped Vehicle Fuel Economy Stickers Add GHG, Savings Data
Mercury News
Informative New Window Labels for 2013 Vehicles Unveiled
The New American
High Gas Prices Set to Cause Double Dip in Economy
NCPA
Cutting Oil Company Tax Breaks Could Push Prices Up, Analysts Say
Heritage
Drivers Don’t Need a Mandate for Choice
Heritage
Coburn Moves to Eliminate Ethanol Subsidies
Heartland
The Safety of Nuclear Energy Generation
Heritage
We Need a Real Fix to the EPA’s CO2 Power Grab
Heritage
EPA’s Greenhouse Power Grab: Baucus’s Revenge, Democracy’s Peril
Last week, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) introduced an amendment to S. 493, a bill reauthorizing small business research and technology programs. Baucus’s amendment would essentially codify…
Trading Charts
Coalition of Right/Left Groups Support Coburn/Cardin Bill Ending Ethanol Subsidy
Trading Charts
Put the REINS on EPA
EPA’s end-run around democracy — the agency’s hijacking of climate policy via the backdoor of Clean Air Act regulations — is meeting stiff resistance on Capitol…
Trading Charts
Will Congress Stop EPA’s End-Run around Democracy?
Cap-and-tax may be dead in Congress but the Kyoto agenda of stealth energy taxes marches on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Although the Clean…
Comment
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf…
Washington Examiner
Obama pushing energy agenda already rejected by voters
Blog
Don’t Believe Everything You Think!
National Post
Kent’s deft touch will be an asset
National Post
The Environmental Protection Agency’s End-Run Around Democracy
In a recent issue of the Daily Caller, reporter Jonathan Strong asserts that EPA’s global warming regulations are “no end-run around Congress,” because “This time Congress…
National Post
Will the Supreme Court Empower Trial Lawyers to ‘Legislate’ Climate Policy?
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from five electric utilities in a case called State of Connecticut v. American Electric Power. …
National Post
Ethanol’s Policy Privileges: Heading for History’s Dustbin?
The lame-duck Congress has a rare opportunity to avoid $25-30 billion in new deficit spending over the next five years, ease consumers’ pain at the…
Letters
Coalition letter: Allow the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit to Expire
Full Document Avalible in PDF A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing the subsidies to…
The New American
Groups Continue to Urge for Expiration of Ethanol Subsidies
Heartland
EPA Greenhouse Gas Restrictions Raise Concerns About Economic Costs
Heartland
EPA Greenhouse Gas Restrictions Raise Concerns About Economic Costs
Shop Floor
EPA: Today Texas, Tomorrow the Nation
Shop Floor
Cap-and-tax is Dead but Kyotoism is Alive and Well at the EPA
Cap-and-tax may be dead in Congress but the Kyoto agenda of stealth energy taxes marches on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Although the Clean…
The New American
EPA Power Grab over Greenhouse Gases Threatens Economy
American Thinker
The EPA’s ‘Climate Change’ Tyranny
National Review
Obama’s Tax Cut for Rich Oil Companies
Letters
Coalition Letter Against the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit
Full Document Available in PDF To Members of the United States Congress: …
Energy Tomorrow
Is EPA Protecting Human Health?
Blog
EPA Ozone Standard Would Destroy 7.3 Million Jobs, Study Estimates
A recent study by the Manufacturer’s Alliance/MAPI finds that EPA’s proposed revision of the “primary” (health-based) national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for ozone (O3) would have…
Blog
Sen. Baucus, I Salute You! OK, I Will Salute You If…
In a message titled, “EPA WILL REGULATE GLOBAL WARMING IN STATES WITH OR WITHOUT AUTHORITY,” the ever-vigilant Maryam Brown of the Senate Republican Policy Committee reports:…
Blog
Obama’s Rooftop Solar Panel: Back to the Future Carter
Energy Secy. Steven Chu kicked off a three-day federal “sustainability” symposium today by announcing that the Department of Energy will install solar rooftop water-heating panels…
Blog
Prop 23 Will Boost California Employment By Half Million In 2012, 1.3 Million in 2020, Study Estimates
If approved by the California electorate this November, Proposition 23 will suspend the implementation of AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, until the State’s unemployment rate…
Energy Tomorrow
Let’s You and Him Fight
Cap-and-trade is dead because the public finally caught on that it is a stealth energy tax, a big reason being that it makes coal –…
San Francisco Examiner
Big Green: Global warming and EPA’s threat to regulate everything
Blog
Motion to Stay Makes Strong Case Court Should Overturn EPA Global Warming Rules
Last Thursday (September 16, 2010), three groups, each led by the Coalition for Responsible Regulation (CRR), filed motions with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to “stay” (put…
Study
Cap-and-Trade Schemes are Not Markets
Cap-and-trade supporters are trying to get Republican lawmakers on board a new cap-and-trade policy, this time it's "market-based."…
Blog
Will Grading Cars Dispell or Enhance “MPG Illusion”?
As discussed in my recent post “Obama’s EPA: School Marms R Us,” EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSHA) are…
Blog
Greenhouse Protection Racket — An Update
Last week, the Obama Administration filed a brief on behalf of industry petitioners urging the Supreme Court to vacate an appeals court decision (State of Connecticut et…
Blog
Obama’s EPA: School Marms R Us
The Obama Administration’s EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSHA) are proposing new rules “labeling each passenger car with a government letter grade from A…
San Francisco Examiner
Obama Urges Court to Vacate AGW Decision. I Smell a Rat (or Two!)
Last week, in a brief filed on behalf of six large electric power producers, the Obama administration urged the Supreme Court to vacate…
Blog
National Security Risks of Biofuel Mandates — Corrected*
Those amazing Idsos who run the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change review a paper recently published in AMBIO: A Journal…
Blog
Is GOP Opposition to Cap-and-Trade Self-Contradictory?
Betsy Moler of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership and Phil Sharp of Resources for the Future would like Republicans to think so. After all, if…