Showing posts with label pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pollution. Show all posts

Mike Ciandella: Matt Damon's Anti-Fracking Movie Flops

Bad investment for United Arab Emirates.   Matt Damon’s much hyped anti-fracking film “Promised Land” has failed to make the impact that its producers and environmental groups had hoped for. As of January 20, “Promised Land” has raked in a whopping total of $7,542,000 since it opened on December 28, according to Box Office Mojo. According  ... MORE

Washington Times: EPA's Chilling Effect

Alaskan liberty goes up in smoke under new air regs.     Not-so-unintended consequences of overregulation are in the air. Newly adopted rules limiting airborne soot imposed by bureaucrats in Washington threaten to freeze the choices — and toes — of individuals living more than 4,000 miles away in subarctic Alaska.        ... MORE

6,125 Proposed Government Regulations In Last 90 Days

Obama administration spitting out an average of 68 a day.   It’s Friday morning, and so far today, the Obama administration has posted 165 new regulations and notifications on its reguations.gov website. In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day. The website allows visitors to find and comment on proposed    ... MORE

Steven Milloy: The EPA's Illegal Human Experiments

Agency failed to warn tests potentially lethal.      The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued in federal court for allegedly conducting illegal experiments on human beings. The case tests whether a government agency can violate the law and the most sacrosanct ethics of scientific research — and get away scot-free.       ... MORE

Zack Colman: Obama, EPA Move Toward Cap-And-Trade

Pushing up fuel costs. President Obama’s use of executive authority and his Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) interpretation of existing laws might have laid the groundwork for renewed cap-and-trade efforts, political experts said Wednesday. The courts have approved many of the EPA’s pollution regulations, giving Obama license to propose new rules, former EPA Administrator Carol Browner said during a Politico-hosted panel discussion at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.... MORE

Robert Zubrin: The Green War On Poor

Democrats used to care about poor and working people. In a nearly full-page op-ed appearing in the business section of the August 25 New York Times, Cornell professor Robert H. Frank lays out the new green agenda for tax policy. According to Professor Frank, stopping global warming may require carbon taxes of about $300 per ton of carbon    ... MORE

Erica Martinson: Court Strikes Down EPA Pollution Rules

Court agrees federal bureaucracy goes too far.  In a rebuke to the Obama administration, a federal court took a hammer Tuesday to a controversial EPA regulation aimed at forcing states to be “good neighbors” on air pollution. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday that the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule     ... MORE

George Will: Navajos Feeling The Regulatory Heavy Hand

More punishment for Arizona.   The federal government is a bull that has found yet another china shop, this time in Arizona. It seems determined to inflict, for angelic motives and progressive goals, economic damage on this state. And economic and social damage on American Indians, who over the years have experienced quite enough of that ... MORE

Brian Phillips: Social Problems And The Solution

Once the core problem is identified, the solution is simple. If we look at any number of social problems, we find numerous similarities. No matter the issue–education, energy, infrastructure, pollution, and much more–Americans look to government to provide the solution. These issues provoke heated political debates, with  ... MORE

Dunn & Milloy: EPA's Faulty Science Can Be Stopped

Time to rein in unreliable, irresponsible and outrageous claims. United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-sponsored and funded "human health effects science" research is unreliable and makes irresponsible and outrageous claims about how air pollution causes thousands of deaths. Then the EPA claims that it can prevent those deaths with its     ... MORE

Bruce Walker: The Decline Of Greenism

Americans are waking up to the green con game. An April 9 Gallup Poll shows that since 2006, radical environmentalism has been losing influence in America. Gallup results are even more dramatic when viewed over the last couple of decades; worry about water pollution dropped from consuming 72% of Americans in 1989 to perturbing 46% in March 2011; worry about air  ... MORE

Dunn & Milloy: A Strategy To Stop EPA Science Abuse

Promoting unjustified concerns and panics.    There is a way to stop the EPA's abuse of science and prevent their continued aggressive regulatory activity that destroys the economy and causes harm to Americans. Primarily, we have to hold the EPA to good scientific principles and stop the EPA's overreaching and panic mongering. The method ... MORE

WSJ Editorial: No Need To Panic About Global Warming

No compelling scientific argument for drastic action.  Editor's Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article:  A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about "global warming." Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all    ... MORE

John Hinderaker: Is Rain Water An Industrial Pollutant?

Millions of permits may be needed. We have written repeatedly about the EPA’s war on energy and, more generally, on economic growth. But a case that may soon make its way to the Supreme Court is, critics argue, even more extreme than anything mandated by the Agency. The case is Georgia-Pacific West, Inc. et al. v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center. ... MORE

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