President Trump is our forty-fifth president. He made it official on Inauguration Day with a very muscular, yet non-partisan inauguration speech, one that reflected why he won the election. The 1,433-word speech lasted barely 15 minutes, but was the most populist speech ever given by a Republican. It spoke directly to millions of people who…
Paul Driessen
Those “devastating” EPA reductions
Budget and personnel cuts reflect environmental progress and essential regulatory reformsThe Trump White House wants significant reductions at the Environmental Protection Agency: two dozen or more programs, including a dozen dealing with President Obama’s climate initiatives; a 20% downsizing in EPA’s 15,000-person workforce; and a onefourth reduction in its $8.1 billion budget. The plan requires…
William M Briggs
The Hottest Yeah Evah! Really?
Assume for a moment, as the press with triumphant glee is reporting, that 2016 was the hottest year evah! Believe the claim for the sake of argument. Swallow the idea, for at least the next minute, that the media and government really do have your best interests at heart and are reporting the truth, the…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
The Week That Was March 11th, 2017
The Climate Establishment Strikes Back: MIT Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences Richard Lindzen had circulated a petition signed by some 300 scientists calling for the US to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He sent the petition with a letter to President Trump. In response, twenty-two MIT professors sent a…
General
Rabblerousing!
Feb 18 Howard C. Hayden 785 S. McCoy Drive Pueblo West, CO 81007 Editor The Pueblo Chieftain Gentle Folks: The Pueblo City Council recently committed to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035. Let us look at some of the far-reaching benefits of this decision. On NREL’s map of wind potential, the scale runs from 3…
General
WMC to EPA: Reconsider Sheboygan County Nonattainment Reclassification
State Chamber files one of the very first petitions of the Pruitt era SHEBOYGAN – Last Friday, WMC filed a petition for administrative reconsideration with EPAasking the agency to review a decision made last December to re-classify Sheboygan County into a more stringent nonattainment category. The petition asks EPA to revisit that decision and consider…