DECEMBER 14, 2011 Congress mandated purchase of 250 million gallons in 2011. Actual production: 6.6 million. ‘We’ll fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive within six years.” […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Unchanging Science Among other things the global warming crusaders got wrong: skepticism is a virtue, not a vice. Joseph Bottum and William Anderson November 28, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 11EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Perhaps the greatest reason for any of us to feel skepticism about climate change, however, is
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DECEMBER 6, 2011 If the Lights Go Out Regulators are letting EPA compromise U.S. electric reliability. Say what you will about Obama Administration regulators, their problem has rarely been a failure to regulate. Which makes the abdication of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission especially notable—and dangerous for the U.S. power supply. Last week FERC convened
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– The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation – http://blog.heritage.org – Morning Bell: Agenda 21 and the Threat in Your Backyard Posted By Mike Brownfield December 5, 2011 In American Leadership | Ready to trade in your car for a bike, or maybe a subway instead? Interested in fewer choices for your
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NOVEMBER 29, 2011 The climate religion fades in spasms of anger and twitches of boredom. By BRET STEPHENS How do religions die? Generally they don’t, which probably explains why there’s so little literature on the subject. Zoroastrianism, for instance, lost many of its sacred texts when Alexander sacked Persepolis in 330 B.C., and most Zoroastrians
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Here’s the Abstract: Agenda 21, a voluntary plan adopted at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, unabashedly calls on governments to intervene and regulate nearly every potential impact that human activity could have on the environment. However, Agenda 21 is non-binding; it depends on governments for implementation. If opponents focus excessively on
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NOVEMBER 28, 2011 Ms. Jackson’s agency takes over automobile design. Here’s one good way to consider the vote in 2012: It’s about whether to re-elect President Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, which these days runs most the U.S. economy. The EPA heaved its weight against another industry this month, issuing a
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A RALLY IN WASHINGTON STATE BY TEA PARTY ADVOCATES TO STOP THE U.N. BY DEFUNDING
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NOVEMBER 28, 2011 The Non-Green Jobs Boom Forget ‘clean energy.’ Oil and gas are boosting U.S. employment. So President Obama was right all along. Domestic energy production really is a path to prosperity and new job creation. His mistake was predicting that those new jobs would be “green,” when the real employment boom is taking
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NOVEMBER 25, 2011 Stringing Up Gibson Guitar Environmentalists and trade protectionists set a trap for American businesses. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL On a sweltering day in August, federal agents raided the Tennessee factories of the storied Gibson Guitar Corp. The suggestion was that Gibson had violated the Lacey Act—a federal law designed to protect wildlife—by
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