by Jane Richey | Jul 24, 2013 | Agenda 21
A new method for producing electricity from waste carbon dioxide emitted by power stations could be so efficient that it has the potential to create 400 times the amount of power that the Hoover Dam generates in a year, Dutch scientists have claimed. Researchers from...
by Jane Richey | Aug 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
In America’s struggling economy, fossil fuel production stands out as a bright spot. Currently, 9,000,000 Americans work in the oil and natural gas industry, and another 550,000 Americans work in coal mining. Wages for these jobs are well above average, and production...
by Jane Richey | Aug 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a brief Monday explaining its decision to deny a petition that would have exempted refiners from part of a biofuel blending mandate. The documents filed Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
From Michael Patrick Leahy: President Obama’s “War on Coal” has made it so difficult for electricity producers to use that the percentage of our nation’s electricity coming from coal has plunged from 44% last year to 36% this year. This forced...
by Jane Richey | Mar 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A November 2011 study[1] by the Analysis Group claims that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has showered $1.6 billion in “economic value added” to the ten participating states in the years 2009–2011. However, the study has several serious flaws, in that...