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How EPA Seeks to Unilaterally Impose GHG Emission Regulations Using UN...

(Additional sources added January 30, 2010) The Obama Administration decided in its first month in office to try to use the authority given to EPA by the Supreme Court in Massachusetts vs. EPA to...

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Why Peer Review Is No Substitute for the Scientific Method

Given the the apparent death of cap and trade legislation in the US Senate, the short-term outcome of the US debate on action that allegedly might reduce climate change may rest primarily on what the...

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EPA: The Administration’s High Risk but Pivotal Climate Gamble

Note: This post is the summary of the first section of a paper that I presented at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois, May 17,...

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First Congressional Test of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Expected June 10

As explained in a recent paper, there are only a few ways in which the US Environmental Protection Agency can be prevented from rewriting the Clean Air Act and issuing sweeping regulations to attempt...

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July 22 May Well Mark the End for Major U.S. Climate Legislation and Global...

July 22 appears likely to mark a significant turning point in the long global warming/climate change control saga. Yesterday, the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, announced that the Senate would not...

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Warmists’ Meager Hopes for a Climate Bill in 2010 Dashed by Lack of Votes for...

Warmists had little hope for a climate bill this year after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s July 22 decision not to push an energy bill this year containing cap and trade/tax provisions or...

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How Big Brother Is Using the National Parks and Other Agencies to Promote His...

The Obama Administration has made many efforts to support its climate religion (climatism). Since this viewpoint has no basis in the scientific method, it is not science and would seem best...

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Obama’s Multifaceted Global Warming Doctrine Agenda and What Might Be Done to...

On June 30 I made a presentation at the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute in Washington, DC, entitled “Obama’s Multifaceted Global Warming Doctrine...

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EPA Inspector General Finds Procedures Used in Preparing GHG Endangerment...

The USEPA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a review questioning the procedures used in preparing the Technical Support Document (TSD) on which EPA’s Endangerment Finding for greenhouse...

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EPA’s Proposed Carbon “Pollution” Standard for New Power Plants

On May 23 I made a presentation on EPA’s proposed carbon “pollution” standard for new power plants at the Heartland Institute’s Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7) in Chicago. My...

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EPA’s New Proposed Regulations to Restrict Emissions from Existing Fossil...

Today is the day when EPA unveils its regulations intended to solve a minor or more likely non-existent problem by placing restrictive government regulations intended to bias the electric supply...

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My Remarks on New Proposed EPA Power Plant Regulations at ICCC9

On July 8 I received the Climate Science Whistleblower Award at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute and other cosponsoring organizations held in...

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Interview Supplementing My Award Acceptance Remarks at ICCC-9

As a result of my award acceptance remarks at the July, 2014 International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-9) sponsored by the Heartland Institute and other co-sponsors, I was recently interviewed...

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New Book Available April 28

Stairway Press expects to publish my new book entitled Environmentalism Gone Mad: How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy on April 28. A description...

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A Response from an Allegedly “Abnormal” Skeptic

This week the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency implied that climate skeptics (she apparently used the far more pejorative term “climate denier” widely used by alarmists, of...

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Two Cases of Environmentalism Gone Mad

It may seem odd but it is possible to have too much of anything, even something with a “clean” image such as environmentalism. So how could anyone be opposed to more environmentalism? The answer is...

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The Environmental Movement’s Capture of USEPA and What Might Be Done about It

The US Environmental Protection Agency was created at the end of 1970 in response to bipartisan popular interest in improving the environment. Unfortunately, Richard Nixon did not anticipate the...

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New Analysis Suggests Obama’s Power Plant Regulations Will Almost Quadruple...

Updated August 12, 2015 to add new sources On August 3, President Obama announced EPA’s final “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) regulations (summarized by the Administration here). The regulations are even more...

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Comments on the EPA CPP Regulation

[August 25, 2015 update: For a commentary on what Ms. McCarthy actually said see here.] On August 11, 2015, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy presented her views on “The Promise of the Clean Power Plan”...

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What Can Happen When Special Interests Capture Government Regulatory Agencies

There can be little remaining doubt that the US Environmental Protection Agency no longer represents the best interests of the American public. It rather represents the interests of a small minority of...

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