Tag Archives: United States Environmental Protection Agency

DC Circuit Tosses Out EPA’s Cross-State Pollution Rule

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

From the SPPI blog: DC Circuit Tosses Out EPA’s Pollution Rule Source: Madison Project Amidst Obama’s inexorable war on American energy, consumers, jobs, and prosperity, his EPA is in the process of promulgating 4 new pollution rules that will bury … Continue reading →

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By its actions, the IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Unreliable

Posted on July 16, 2012 by

Foreword: Readers may recall that we covered the InterAcademy Council finding here on WUWT, in IAC slams IPCC process, suggests removal of top officials followed by IPCC’s Pachauri should resign for “failures of leadership” Now, with virtually no notice, the … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on July 1, 2012 by

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “This is how science works,” the unsigned opinion said. “EPA is not required to re-prove the existence of the atom every time it … Continue reading →

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Sierra Club hires EPA official who wanted to ‘crucify’ EPA lawbreakers

Posted on June 30, 2012 by

The Hill reports: A former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who resigned earlier this year for comparing his work to crucifixion has found new employment with a leading green group. The Sierra Club on Friday announced that Al Armendariz would … Continue reading →

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Court upholds EPA’s greenhouse gas rules for autos – but lacks jurisdiction on stationary sources like power plants

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

D.C. Appeals Court OKs EPA Rules on Greenhouse Gases From Reuters By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever U.S. proposed regulations governing heat-trapping greenhouse gases, handing a setback to major industries like coal-burning utilities … Continue reading →

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The EPA’s Unethical PM2.5 Air Pollution Experiments

Posted on June 4, 2012 by

By John Dale Dunn MD JD (via email) United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson testified before Congress in September of 2011 that small-particle (2.5 microns or less) air pollution is lethal. “Particulate matter causes premature death. It’s … Continue reading →

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Holy cow! EPA exposed to be using aerial surveillance on Midwest feedlots

Posted on June 2, 2012 by

From Omaha.com, more indications that the EPA is out of control. I’m beginning to think the EPA is an enemy of the citizens of the United States with behavior like this. I guess we’ll need genetically engineered cattle with built … Continue reading →

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Obama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls NERC (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) must have thought it was taking a step up when a 2005 law made the non-profit group an official advisor to Congress, but that law also brought them … Continue reading →

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If Obama is going to kill coal, he has to hide the body

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls The graphics were changed in the last two days, but Conn Carroll at the Washington Examiner took a screenshot of Obama’s “All of the Above” energy policy page on Tuesday. “Notice anything missing?” he asks: … Continue reading →

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Breaking – EPA’s “crucifier” resigns

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Junkscience.com reports that: EPA official Al Armendariz who rocketed to infamy last week because of 2010 comments about “crucifying” industry, has resigned from the agency. Click for his resignation letter. (PDF) Here’s the source of the uproar, this video:

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The EPA and undisclosed human experimentation

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

In my email today: From: The Honorable Dana Rohrabacher Date: 4/27/2012 EPA Compromises the Integrity of Science Dear Colleague: “Which do you find more shocking: that the Environmental Protection Agency conducts experiments on humans that its own risk assessment would … Continue reading →

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EPA’s E-15 ethanol plan rammed though – won’t work in many cars

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

The folly of E15 anti-hydrocarbon policies EPA’s E-15 ethanol plan is bad for our pocketbooks, environment and energy policy Guest post by Paul Driessen The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the … Continue reading →

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Mercury, the Trickster God

Posted on April 1, 2012 by

I’ve been puzzling for a while about why the areas with the most power plants aren’t the areas with the worst levels of mercury pollution. Why aren’t the areas downwind from the power plants heavily polluted? I keep running across … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on April 1, 2012 by

Quote of the Week: EPA is proposing to take common-sense steps under the Clean Air Act to limit carbon pollution from new power plants. … Power plants are the largest individual sources of carbon pollution in the United States and … Continue reading →

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The EPA’s Mercurial Madness

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the process of writing my piece about Lisa Jackson and the EPA, I got to reading about the EPA passing new mercury regulations. Their regulations are supposed to save the lives of some 11,000 … Continue reading →

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Lisa Shops Sustainably by the Seine

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A few months ago I wrote a post about the previous head of the EPA, Carol Browner, and her risible claim that she was creating jobs. Her successor, Lisa Jackson, is worse. Lisa has just … Continue reading →

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The EPA Wrecking Ball

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Guest post By Alan Caruba The Environmental Protection Agency is using its power to advance the objective of the environmental movement to deny Americans access to the energy that sustains the nation’s economy and is using the greatest hoax ever … Continue reading →

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New EPA rule will block all new coal-electric generation

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls The upcoming rule: … will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to … Continue reading →

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I guess we must be having an effect

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

This ad has been running on some WUWT stories, urging people to save the EPA from the “deniers” that are apparently “running the conversation”. Heh. When you see the ad, clicking on it allows you to use a form to … Continue reading →

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EPA Budget Judgment Day Coming Up

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

I’d ask EPA’s Lisa Jackson about the legality of “disappearing” the over $468,000 dollars in grants to Peter Gleick’s Pacific Institute from the EPA grants database, then putting them back, all without any public notice.  Since 2007, Gleick’s PI has … Continue reading →

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