Since the EPA has long ignored the disagreement among the scientific community regarding the EPA’s classification of CO2 as a pollutant as well as the magnitude of man-made warming, industry groups contested that the courts should reverse the EPA’s ruling on the grounds that it was arbitrary and capricious.
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EPA’s new CAFÉ mileage standards kill
Strengthening CAFÉ standards by 53.5 percent by 2025 likely will yield deadlier cars. Airbags will do only so much while surrounded by materials that recall aluminum or vinyl siding. “CAFÉ kills, and higher CAFÉ standards kill even more.”
Sustainable Development: The latest UN scare
Advancing “social equity” and “environmental justice,” in ways that Rio+20 sought to do, would actually have meant perpetuating poverty for developing countries, and reducing living standards in wealthier countries. The goal, as in all previous incarnations of Rio+20, was to ensure more equal sharing of increasing scarcity – except for ruling elites.
Obama’s “green” jobs cost $6.7 million per job
DOE has guaranteed $34.7 billion in loans … Some 2,378 permanent jobs were claimed to be created under the program. This works out to a potential cost per job of $6.7 million. – U.S. News
More green insanity – taxpayer funded solar plant to cook birds, blind drivers, flip planes
The company is getting a billion and a half dollars and has ties to Obama and Biden. They used to call this bribery. When it’s billions of dollars I guess it’s O.K. Over $16 billion has been blown on “green” companies with ties to Obama campaign donors.
The Long and Costly War on Carbon
Australia’s crippling carbon tax is but the latest symptom of the costly Climate Madness infecting the well-fed elite of the western world.
Environmental Floundering
“The Future We Want” Rio+20 Earth Summit should have been named “The Future We Dread” since freedom loving Americans and free market supporters have been pushing back against the destructive march of controlling environmentalists against private property, prosperity, economic development, and sovereignty.
Killing Coal and Raising Electric Rates in America
Obama’s hostility to coal is depriving Americans of a cheap, abundant source of energy and, last week, Democrats with the aid of some Republican Senators, just drove the price of electricity to new heights.
New scare tactics: Sustainable development and biodiversity “easier sell” than climate change
“Rio+20” is trying to shift attention to “biodiversity” and alleged threats to plant and animal species, as the new “greatest threat” facing Planet Earth. This rebranding is “by design,” according to conference organizers, who say sustainable development and biodiversity is an “easier sell” these days than climate change: a simpler path to advance the same radical goals.
Earth Summit Babble
There is one good reason to not ignore the Earth Summit. They are telling you just what kind of an Orwellian and totalitarian world they have in mind for you.