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Why The EPA Has Texas Boiling

Written by Christopher Snow Hopkins, National Journal | 24 August 2010

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson now doing Congress' job.

The partisan issue of climate change is also becoming a contest between state and federal authority.

Texas is refusing to comply with what state officials regard as potentially unlawful actions on the part of the Environmental Protection Agency. In a letter dated Aug. 2, state officials accused the EPA of "[threatening] to usurp state enforcement authority and to federalize the permitting program of any state that fails to pledge their fealty." The letter is signed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and state Commission on Environmental Quality Chairman Bryan W. Shaw.

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Markey: warming skeptics should move to ice island

Written by Boston.com | 08 August 2010

Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey has a suggestion for how to use a giant ice island that recently broke off a glacier in Greenland. He says it's plenty big enough for people he calls "global warming deniers" to start their own country.

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EPA rejects climate petitions from Cuccinelli, others

Written by Jim Nolan, Richmond Times-Dispatch | 02 August 2010

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli

The Environmental Protection Agency has rejected 10 petitions -- including one filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli -- challenging the climate science research it is using to formulate regulations limiting manmade greenhouse gas emissions.

The petitions asked the agency to reconsider its Endangerment Finding, which asserted that manmade emissions of greenhouse gases have affected climate change and threaten human health and the environment.

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EPA rejects challenge to climate rules

Written by DARREN SAMUELSOHN, Politico | 29 July 2010

Jackson: "The science is settled!" Ouch!

The Environmental Protection Agency Thursday rejected an effort to keep it from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, saying that e-mails released in last fall’s “Climategate” scandal gave it no reason to reconsider the science of global warming.

In a sternly written opinion, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said she didn’t agree with requests from the GOP attorneys general from Texas and Virginia, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative groups that questioned the underlying science linking humans to global warming and also warned of the potential economic burdens from new climate rules.

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Washington State's Climate Exec Order Challenged

Written by Paul Chesser, American Spectator | 21 July 2010

Gov. Christine Gregoire

Today the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Constitutional Law Center announced they would, on behalf of Washington State taxpayers, sue Democrat Gov. Christine Gregoire because last year she issued an executive order implementing climate change measures that the Democrat-run state legislature had rejected.

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Gulf Oil Spill 'Crisis' May Revive Growth-Killing Cap-And-Trade Bill

Written by ARTHUR LAFFER, WAYNE WINEGARDEN AND COLIN HANNA, Investors | 19 July 2010

Rahm Emanuel: "Never allow a crisis to go to waste."

Rahm Emanuel: "Never allow a crisis
go to waste."

As White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel expressed in the midst of the financial crisis, this administration follows the rule "Never allow a crisis to go to waste." And following President Obama's Oval Office address, it is apparent that many in Washington are doing their best not to let the oil spill crisis in the Gulf "go to waste."

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Federal Judge to Obama: "PACT Act violates various provisions of the Constitution, including the commerce clause, the 10th amendment, the due-process clause and the equal protection clause."

Written by Patrick Lakamp and Dan Herbeck, Buffalo News | 30 June 2010

Smokin' Joe Obama and his penchant for hypocrisy.

Ed. note: Regardless of your feelings about smoking and the legal purchase of cigarettes, it seems that federal judges are getting more than a little bit irritated with the Obama administration taking liberties with our constitution. I can only hope that if cap-and-tax legislation passes before the November elections, some brave judge will stand up to the blatant tyranny of this administration.

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Monday allowing a Seneca Nation mail-order cigarette retailer to supply tobacco products across the country without having to meet the requirements of a new federal law that took effect at midnight.

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Obama Blames Europe for U.S. Economic Woes!

Written by Chris Horner, Planet Gore | 30 June 2010

Bad, EU. Bad!

Remember President Obama saying, over and over, and over and over again, that we should “think about what’s happening in countries like Spain,” among other European social-democratic examples he trotted out (depending on the stump speech) if we wanted to see his model for centrally planning a “green economy.”

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Paying President's 'Price On Carbon'

Written by Investor's Business Daily | 29 June 2010

Just like Jason in the Friday the 13th movies,
cap-and-tax just won't die.

The administration plans to use sleight-of-hand politics to sneak through an economy-killing tax on energy as necessary to save the Earth. Make no mistake: Cap-and-trade is a tax every American will pay in every aspect of his or her life.

Cap-and-trade is like Jason Voorhees of the "Friday the 13th" movie series. Just when you think you've killed it, it comes back.

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The Antidrilling Commission

Written by Wall Street Journal Editorial | 22 June 2010

"Under my Administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over. . . To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy. . . I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, and not the other way around."

—President Obama, April 27, 2009

The President has appointed a seven-person commission to take what he says will be an objective look at what caused the Gulf spill and the steps to make offshore drilling safe. But judging from the pedigree of his commissioners, we're beginning to wonder if his real goal is to turn drilling into a partisan election issue.

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Global Warming, the EPA, and Good Ideas Gone Bad

Written by Tom Richard, Boston Environmental Policy Examiner | 21 June 2010

Carol Browner: The Queen of Consensus.

The other day I was having a conversation with a friend, whom I'll brand a global warming on-the-fencer, about the EPA's latest foray into political machinations. I mentioned to him that when the EPA gets involved in constructing social policy to repay its party's benefactors, in this case the Democrats, problems invariably ensue.

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Why The EPA Has Texas Boiling

Markey: warming skeptics should move to ice island

EPA rejects climate petitions from Cuccinelli, others

EPA rejects challenge to climate rules

Washington State's Climate Exec Order Challenged

Gulf Oil Spill 'Crisis' May Revive Growth-Killing Cap-And-Trade Bill

Federal Judge to Obama: "PACT Act violates various provisions of the Constitution, including the commerce clause, the 10th amendment, the due-process clause and the equal protection clause."

Obama Blames Europe for U.S. Economic Woes!

Paying President's 'Price On Carbon'

The Antidrilling Commission

Global Warming, the EPA, and Good Ideas Gone Bad