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President Trump Promotes Administration’s Environmental Accomplishments   

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President Trump Promotes Administration’s Environmental Accomplishments   

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 07/12/2019

On July 8th President Trump gave a speech on his administration’s environmental accomplishments. I was lucky to be one of a couple hundred people invited to…

Energy and Environment

EPA Releases Final Rule to Replace ‘Clean Power’ Plan

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EPA Releases Final Rule to Replace ‘Clean Power’ Plan

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 06/24/2019

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler on June 19th signed the final rule to replace the so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP). The new rule to regulate greenhouse gas…

Climate

Climate Issues Decide Australian Election  

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Climate Issues Decide Australian Election  

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/24/2019

Australian voters stunned the pollsters and the experts in the general election on May 18th by returning the ruling coalition of conservative parties to office. Votes are…

Climate

CEI Petitions EPA to Correct 2009 Endangerment Finding

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CEI Petitions EPA to Correct 2009 Endangerment Finding

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/17/2019

The Competitive Enterprise Institute on May 13th filed a request for correction under the Information Quality Act (IQA) that asks the Environmental Protection Agency to stop using or…

Climate

House Passes Bill to Keep U.S. in Paris Climate Treaty

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House Passes Bill to Keep U.S. in Paris Climate Treaty

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/03/2019

The House of Representatives on May 2 passed a bill that would prevent President Donald Trump from withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate treaty. Eighteen…

Climate

New York City Enacts Its Own Green New Deal

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New York City Enacts Its Own Green New Deal

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 04/26/2019

New York City’s council passed the Climate Mobilization Act, a set of six bills, by a 45 to 2 vote on 18th April. Mayor Bill de Blasio signed…

Climate

White House Moves to Strengthen Information Quality Act

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White House Moves to Strengthen Information Quality Act

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 04/26/2019

The White House Office of Management and Budget on April 24th sent a memo to heads of departments and agencies updating guidelines for implementing the Information Quality…

Regulatory Reform

Proposed Climate Science Review Continues to Attract Support and Opposition

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Proposed Climate Science Review Continues to Attract Support and Opposition

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 04/12/2019

The proposal by Dr. William Happer of the White House’s National Security Council staff to create an independent panel of experts to do a critical…

Climate

Senate Votes Down Green New Deal, Alternatives Proliferate 

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Senate Votes Down Green New Deal, Alternatives Proliferate 

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 03/29/2019

The Senate voted on March 26th on a variant of the Green New Deal resolution. No Senators voted yes, 57 voted no, and 43 voted present.  The…

Climate

Senate Democratic Sponsors of Green New Deal Heroically Plan to Vote ‘Present’

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Senate Democratic Sponsors of Green New Deal Heroically Plan to Vote ‘Present’

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 03/22/2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has scheduled a floor vote on the Green New Deal resolution for the week of March 24th. Democrats were caught…

Climate

McCarthy Picks Republicans for Select Committee on Climate Crisis

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McCarthy Picks Republicans for Select Committee on Climate Crisis

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 03/01/2019

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on February 28th announced the names of the Republicans he has chosen to serve on the Select Committee on the Climate…

Climate

White House to Create President’s Commission on National Climate Security

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White House to Create President’s Commission on National Climate Security

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/23/2019

The Washington Post obtained leaked Trump administration documents this week that reveal that the White House is preparing an executive order to create a President’s…

Climate

Sen. McConnell Calls for Senate Vote on Green New Deal, Markey Calls ‘Sabotage’

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Sen. McConnell Calls for Senate Vote on Green New Deal, Markey Calls ‘Sabotage’

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/16/2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on February 12th that he planned to schedule a vote on the Green New Deal Resolution in the near future using Rule…

Climate

House Republican Committee Leaders Begin Caving on Climate Science and Policies

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House Republican Committee Leaders Begin Caving on Climate Science and Policies

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/15/2019

Reps. Greg Walden (R-OR) and Frank Lucas (R-OK), the ranking Republican members of the two committees with the most jurisdiction over climate science and energy-rationing…

Climate

Green New Deal Launched with Support from Democratic Presidential Candidates

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Green New Deal Launched with Support from Democratic Presidential Candidates

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/11/2019

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) held a press conference outside the Capitol building on February 7th to introduce their House and Senate resolutions for a…

Climate

Green New Deal: 626 Groups Send Congress a Back-to-Dark Ages Manifesto

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Green New Deal: 626 Groups Send Congress a Back-to-Dark Ages Manifesto

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 01/11/2019

Six-hundred twenty-six organizations, some of them major environmental groups, sent a letter to Members of the House of Representatives on January 10th that details their demands for…

Climate

UN Special Report: Turning the World’s Energy Economy upside down Is a Good Idea

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UN Special Report: Turning the World’s Energy Economy upside down Is a Good Idea

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 10/16/2018

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on October 6th released a “Special Report (SR15) on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees C.”  The…

Climate

David Henderson (1927-2018), RIP

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David Henderson (1927-2018), RIP

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 10/16/2018

We are sad to note the death of our good friend and strong ally, David Henderson, on September 30th in London.  After a career as…

Business and Government

Five Western States Will Vote on Energy Questions on November Ballots

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Five Western States Will Vote on Energy Questions on November Ballots

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 09/30/2018

Five western states have initiatives or referendums on energy issues. They include increasing renewable energy mandates, instituting a carbon tax, restricting oil and gas production,…

Banking and Finance

Bangkok Climate Talks Make Little Progress on ‘Roadmap’ for Paris Climate Treaty

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Bangkok Climate Talks Make Little Progress on ‘Roadmap’ for Paris Climate Treaty

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 09/08/2018

International climate negotiators meeting in Bangkok, Thailand this week have apparently made little progress on agreeing to a “roadmap” or “rule book” for implementing…

Climate

Australia Dumps Another Prime Minister for Pushing Climate Policies

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Australia Dumps Another Prime Minister for Pushing Climate Policies

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 08/31/2018

Climate policy has once again toppled a prime minister in Australia. After Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton threatened to challenge Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership over…

Climate

EPA Proposes Rule To Replace ‘Clean Power’ Plan

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EPA Proposes Rule To Replace ‘Clean Power’ Plan

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 08/26/2018

The Environmental Protection Agency on August 21st released its proposed rule to replace the “Clean Power” Plan (CPP). The rule, which is called the …

Climate

Carbon Taxers in Full Retreat in Canada

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Carbon Taxers in Full Retreat in Canada

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 08/05/2018

New Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on August 2nd his government was filing suit in Ontario’s Court of Appeal challenging the Canadian federal government’s…

Climate

Massachusetts Passes Scaled-Down Green Energy Bill

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Massachusetts Passes Scaled-Down Green Energy Bill

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 08/04/2018

A massive green energy and climate bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate was scaled back considerably in negotiations with the House before being passed…

Climate

Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo to Introduce Carbon Tax Bill

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Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo to Introduce Carbon Tax Bill

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 07/21/2018

Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) plans to introduce a bill to tax carbon dioxide emissions next week and will speak at a press conference at 9…

Climate

House Votes for Scalise Resolution Opposing Carbon Taxes

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House Votes for Scalise Resolution Opposing Carbon Taxes

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 07/20/2018

The House of Representative voted on July 19th for a resolution “expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to American…

Climate

Reforming ‘Waters of the United States’ Critical for Economic Growth

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Reforming ‘Waters of the United States’ Critical for Economic Growth

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 06/29/2018

The Waters of the United States rule vastly expanded government control over land in America and is one of the prime examples of the…

Energy and Environment

Report Finds All European Union Countries Failing Paris Climate Targets

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Report Finds All European Union Countries Failing Paris Climate Targets

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 06/25/2018

CANEurope (for Climate Action Network Europe) released a report this month that finds that all 28 member nations of the European Union are failing…

Climate

Massachusetts Senate Unanimously Passes Carbon Tax Bill

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Massachusetts Senate Unanimously Passes Carbon Tax Bill

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 06/16/2018

The Massachusetts Senate on June 14th unanimously passed a mammoth climate bill that contains instructions to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions. S. 2545,…

Climate

President Trump Replaces Obama Executive Order on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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President Trump Replaces Obama Executive Order on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/19/2018

President Donald Trump on May 17th issued an executive order that replaces a March 19th, 2015 executive order by President Barack Obama requiring all federal departments…

Energy

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