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No more Kyotos: Japan wants softer emissions target
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CEI responds to blogger criticism of Gore ad
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Is this a spoof?
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William F. Buckley, Jr. RIP
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U.S. officials should oppose, not endorse, EU bully tactics
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Senate EPW hearing on CA waiver ignores core issue
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Will Bush stay the course on CO2?
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Carbon hypocrisy–what does it reveal?
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Biofuel mandates cause global warming, scientists say
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Senate votes to increase Amtrak subsidy
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Renewable fuels lobby calls for – drum roll please – more government support!
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Current biofuel policies are protectionist pork, report suggests
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Is ethanol finally cheaper than gasoline?
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How much higher than European level gas prices should Americans have to pay?
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What is John Dingell up to?
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Is the Bush Administration for or against carbon protectionism?
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Newsweek’s Cover Story: How the Tail Wagged the Dog
Newsweek‘s cover story, by Sharon Begley and three colleagues, purports to be an expose of the global-warming “denial machine” and how it…
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Michael Eckhart apologizes to Marlo Lewis — or does he?
Dear Marlo: I’ve received quite a lot of correspondence from people around the country about my July 13 email to you, and they have persuaded…
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Eckhart Update
Two weeks ago my colleague, Iain Murray, posted on The Corner an email from Michael Eckhart, President of the American Council on Renewable Energy…
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Just say NO to the fuel economy fetishists
My colleague Myron Ebell sometimes describes industry's response to global warming and oil import alarmism as: "Circle the wagons and everybody shoot into the middle."…
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“We are able to reach less people”–U.N. Food Program
This pair of articles by Javier Blas and Jenny Wiggins of the Financial Times is of direct relevance to the debate in Washington,…
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Is false advertising truthful if it is stupendously false?
What prompts this question is a full-page advertisement in today’s (July 11, 2007) Wall Street Journal by BASF, “The Chemical Company.” The ad features a…
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This does not compute
Gov. Rendell of PA is indignant because GOP legislators are calling his proposed “system benefits charge” or “fee” on electricity a TAX. The proposed…
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Riffing on Jonah
I testified yesterday at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on "global warming issues and the power plant sector." Both my written…
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Biofuel pork
A column by Doug Cameron in today’s (June 20, 2007) Financial Times (”Animal plan incites pork-barrel politics“) provides more evidence (as if any were…
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Coal to Kyoto: We will bury you
You have probably heard that China is building new coal-fired power plants at the rate of one every week to 10 days. In…
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Inconvenient truth–Nobody knows how to meet world power needs without emissions
Kyotoites assure us we can have our cake and eat it too. We can meet the world’s surging demand for affordable energy and,…
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Dingell drops controversial provisions — for now
Today’s National Journal reports that House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D., Mich.) and Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D., Va.)…
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Blaming SUV owners for genocide in Africa?
Al Gore and other alarmists call global warming a “moral issue.” But for them it is actually a moralizing issue. Global warming allows them to…
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Reid’s rant
Yesterday's Greenwire (June 14, 2007) presented the transcript of a speech by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate energy bill. The following…
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Multi-billion dollar RPS wealth transfer
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has just published an analysis of Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) “renewable portfolio standard” (RPS) plan requiring utilities by 2020…
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Would Dingell’s Legislation Overturn Mass v EPA?
Last week (June 7, 2007), a panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) and Subcommittee Chair…
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Green gold in California?
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has published a report examining six scenarios under which the Golden State might implement AB 32, the “California Global Warming Solutions…
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NY Gov. Spitzer joins ranks of corn ethanol doubters
CEI is not the habit of praising Elliott Spitzer. Indeed, Spitzer won the number three spot in CEI’s report on the Top Ten Worst…
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Greening of the Pentagon?
Eleven former generals have just published a report warning that global warming poses a "serious threat" to U.S. national security" via increased severity…
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Ethanol jacking up fertilizer prices
Ethanolics never tire of telling us that the current ethanol mandate, President Bush's 20/10 program (requiring 20% or 35 billion gallons of the nation's motor…
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More Alarmism about Global Warming and Species Extinction
A recent column (which came to my attention through Google news alerts) repackages stale alarums as news. The claim that global warming is killing Caribbean…
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Domenici reverts to Byrd-Hagel
The Kyoto crowd crowed when the Senate, on June 22, 2005, voted 54-43 in favor of a Sense of the Senate resolution on climate…
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In case you missed it (notes on some recent climate hearings)
Capitol Hill is on a global warming hearing binge. Al Gore made the big splash in terms of media coverage, but several recent testimonies merit…
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More on Gore’s day on the Hill
Asserting that the planet has a “fever” and asking parents whether they would listen to the doctor if their child had a fever is an…
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Live blogging – Gore on the Hill
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Live blogging from Al Gore’s hearing testimony
At a joint hearing of two House committees (Energy and Commerce, Science), Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) has raised two parliamentary points of order. First, why…
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Policy experts blast Bush fuel mandate at Hill briefing
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Dupont’s rent seeking explained
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Heidi Cullen’s modest proposal
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More meddling in the market
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Will Bush repeal ethanol tariff? Don’t bet on it.
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Kyoto = blackouts
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Comments on the energy portions of Bush’s SOTU
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