Written by Alan Caruba, Warning Signs | 30 August 2010

Guns don't kill people, people don't kill people, so it now must be the lead that kills people.

Every time I conclude that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot get crazier, they demonstrate they are not only crazy, but a continued threat to the health, national security, and the right of Americans to be free of incessant governmental intrusion into their lives and choices.

Mind you, they get lots of help from environmental organizations and the latest example was a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity asking the EPA to ban lead shot and bullets under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

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Written by Randy Rieland, Grist | 27 August 2010

So what's up with President Obama? He says all the right things about clean energy and global warming. But actions speak louder than words, and in the past six months his green cred has faded fast. He opened up the East Coast and the Gulf to more deepwater drilling -- before the BP leak thwarted the plan, for now at least. He let the climate bill, and then any energy bill, wither like a baked grape in the Senate. Now, his Justice Department has sided with utility companies in a lawsuit that was trying to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.

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Written by Aaron Gee, American Thinker | 26 August 2010

Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) fetishist are in crisis.  Hard scientific evidence is mounting that their exalted theory should go the way of the dodo.  The "scientists" in the community continue to refuse to release data so that it can be verified and attack skeptics.  AGW theory is getting such a black eye that it's adherents are refusing to debate the facts in public.  Opinion has started to change, especially in the aftermath of climategate. Taken together, this volatile mix of facts ensures that cap and trade legislation is dead. 

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Written by GABRIEL NELSON, NY Times | 25 August 2010

The Obama administration has urged the Supreme Court to toss out an appeals court decision that would allow lawsuits against major emitters for their contributions to global warming, stunning environmentalists who see the case as a powerful prod on climate change.

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Written by JAMES R. COPLAND, Investor's Business Daily | 25 August 2010

AG Richard Blumenthal, unmasked crusader

While the United States Senate tries to decide what to do about proposed global warming legislation (the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act), Connecticut's attorney general and Democratic nominee for the Senate, Richard Blumenthal, is working to get courts to declare "cap and trade" regulations the law of the land.

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Written by Alan Caruba, Warning Signs | 24 August 2010

Since his election, New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie has been remarkably successful in dealing with the Democrat controlled state legislature and has rocketed to national fame for simply being the real deal when it comes to conservative politics and policies.

That is, until he signed a bill on August 19 that one columnist described as touting “the idea of raising your electric rates to place windmills in the ocean off New Jersey.” In this case the windmill would be 75 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty! None of the residents of Union Beach want a windmill no matter how far out in the Atlantic it’s built.

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Written by Chris Neefus, CNS News | 24 August 2010

Even as the Obama administration seeks to negotiate an international treaty to cap manmade greenhouse gas emissions, many of the world’s most egregious producers of greenhouse gasses cannot accurately estimate how much gas they currently emit, according to a recent report from Government Accountability Office.

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Written by Investor's Business Daily | 24 August 2010

Our secretary of state tells the world the devastating Pakistani floods are caused by man-made global warming as the U.N. plans to exploit the crisis to restart stalled climate talks. Repent, the end is near.

In an interview with Anwar Iqbal of Pakistan's Dawn TV posted on the State Department's Web site, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while discussing the Pakistani floods and American relief efforts, gratuitously said "having gone through Katrina and seeing what's happening around the world with the increase in the number of natural disasters and the extent of the damage that they're causing ... some people believe (they are) linked to global climate change."

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Written by Paul Wornham, Environmental Policy Examiner | 23 August 2010

Elizabeth May

Last weekend Canada’s Green party held a policy convention and confirmed leader Elizabeth May as its leader going forward. May and the Green party leadership changed the party’s constitution to remove term limits for leaders, sidestepping an internal challenge from Green candidate Sylvie Lemieux.

Lemieux wanted a leadership contest, claiming that under May’s leadership the party has seen 25% of its members leave since the last federal election.

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Written by DARREN SAMUELSOHN, Politico | 19 August 2010

References to a cap on carbon emissions and a campaign pledge to spend $150 billion on clean energy technologies disappeared from the White House website in June — even as the Senate was still trying to pass legislation implementing those priorities.

Peter Bray, president of Versionista, a Portland, Ore.-based company that tracks changes to the White House site, said the Obama administration made “whole-cloth” changes to its Energy & Environment issues site on June 10.

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