October 11, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Nicolas Loris ~ The Trump administration is dismantling President Barack Obama’s climate legacy piece by piece, and this week it’s taking an axe to arguably the biggest piece. In an expected move, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt officially began the process of rolling back the incorrectly named Clean Power Plan. If the Trump […]
May 9, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Larry Bell ~ It remains to finally be determined whether or not President Trump will follow through on a promise to withdraw U.S. participation from the non-binding Paris Climate “treaty” signed by his predecessor just prior to leaving office last September. Either way, that decision will have major impacts upon the future of Trump’s economic […]
April 3, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
Far-left ‘charitable’ foundations give millions to ‘conservative’ groups to drive climate agenda By Paul Driessen ~ More and more conservatives are proclaiming the virtues of clean energy. At least that’s what some groups want you to believe. In reality, far-left “charitable” foundations have given pretend conservatives millions of dollars to advance a climate chaos, renewable […]
March 29, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Nicolas Loris ~ As promised, President Donald Trump has issued an “energy independence” executive order to undo several of the Obama administration’s climate change regulations. To the benefit of all Americans who desire affordable, dependable energy, the executive order will help energy companies establish some independence from overzealous regulators. Here’s what the order does: […]
February 22, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Larry Bell ~ Last Friday’s 56-42 Senate vote confirmation of Scott Pruitt as top EPA administrator brings a very unwelcome political climate change for many of the agency’s 15,000 federal career employees and their executive branch-appointed bosses who fought his approval tooth and claw. Referring to their aggressive and defiant letter-writing and telephone campaign […]
July 10, 2015 by PA Pundits - International
Crony peer reviews, “secret science,” and false assumptions are the rule, not the exception By Larry Bell ~ The U.S. Supreme Court has finally blocked one of the Obama EPA’s most ambitious regulatory “Clean Power Plan” initiatives aimed at closing coal-fired power plants. A 5-4 decision ruled that the agency’s draconian new Mercury and Air […]
July 6, 2015 by PA Pundits - International
By Nicolas Loris ~ The Supreme Court handed a victory to Americans concerned with unelected bureaucrats driving up energy costs by overturning a costly regulation that lacks any meaningful environmental benefit. With more regulations with similar high costs and meaningless direct benefits, now Congress and the states must step up to reject overzealous regulators—not rely […]
June 26, 2015 by PA Pundits - International
By Kirby Lawrence ~ Kevin Dayaratna, PhD, The Heritage Foundation’s Senior Statistician and Research Programmer, testified before the House Subcommittees on Energy and Environment regarding the impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan on Wednesday. Dayaratna testified that his research, based on a variety of simulations performed with the Energy Information Administration’s […]
October 12, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
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