EPA
Mar
Let the AGW lawsuits begin
This AFP article, discusses the class action lawsuit that charges Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is responsible for damages and deaths by Hurricane Katrina. The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks after the August 2005 storm hit. ”The plaintiffs [...]
Mar
EPA passes out $7.8 million to combat non-existent Anthropogenic Global Warming
Need to pay to get your house repainted? It can wait. The most important thing is that your tax dollars go to helping others improve their homes. You guessed it, tax payer money will be going to communities under the “green” cause. Doesn’t sound like socialism to me Al. But at least we might be [...]
Feb
CEI sues EPA over greenhouse gas endangerment finding
An article at globalwarming.org talks about the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) going after the EPA again. This time they are including SEPP and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change in their legal actions. This all started last year over a report that was concealed by the EPA so they could get their Endangerment Finding about [...]
Feb
House democrats not happy with the EPA
An article in the New York Times Friday said the EPA is overstepping their bounds with their new finding about CO2 and are attempting to do an end run around Congress. It is a blatant move that usurps Congressional powers, so blatant that even Democrats are stepping up to the plate to put an end to this.
Feb
Senate EPW Minority releases report on CRU controversy
The Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a report today titled, “‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy.” The report covers the controversy surrounding emails and documents released from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU).
Feb
EPA doles out $17 million to study climate change
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced the recipients of more than $17 million in federal grant money to be used to study the impacts of climate change.
Feb
Virginia Attorney General disputes EPA’s CO2 ruling
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says the EPA data is flawed and that climate change legislation will put a burden on citizens. Way to go Virginia. Let’s see more states step up and fight this out of control Obama Administration EPA.
Feb
World’s biggest coal company brings U.S. government to court in climate fraud
The world’s largest private sector coal business, the Peabody Energy Company (PEC) has filed a mammoth 240-page “Petition for Reconsideration,” a full-blown legal challenge against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Feb
Utah sends strong message to Washington on climate change regulations
Common sense holds sway in Utah, the sixth most urbanized population in the U.S., where egislators have now voted with a single voice to say, “No thanks!” to further regulations on carbon dioxide.
Feb
Two U.S. Congressmen go after EPA on reliance on UN’s climate panel
U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson asking her for information related to the peer-review process and scientific objectivity underpinning the agency’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases.