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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 18 Comments

Via The Hill: The White House announced Friday that it is shelving a major planned Environmental Protection Agency regulation that would have tightened smog standards, dealing a huge blow to environmentalists that had pushed the Obama administration to resist industry pressure to abandon the regulation. In a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2011 6 Comments

We approach the end of the light bulb as we know it, unless the revolution succeeds.  Even so, it's doubtful the lost jobs will return, so the Mexican incandescent light bulb smuggling routes will open soon. Nonetheless,  I thought this would be a good time to publish...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2011 4 Comments

Via The Telepgraph:Seven people in the UK have been affected by the virulent strain, including three Britons and four German nationals.Early investigations suggest the strain is a mutant form of two different E.coli bacteria. Hilde Kruse, a food safety expert at the WHO, told the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 15 Comments

Sure, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may be about to shut down oil production in a key region of Texas to protect the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard.  But the Feds are ignoring the threat from this environmental danger, the Texas Roadrunner, caught here eating a,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2011 10 Comments

It really isn't easy or breezy, but stuff like this helps:President Obama declared today's 41st annual Earth Day proof of America's ecological and conservation spirit—then completed a three-day campaign-style trip logging 10,666 miles on Air Force One, eating up some 53,300 gallons at a cost...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2011 13 Comments

Legal Insurrection reader and sometimes commenter Bill Dyszel has produced a masterpiece opera, titled Mercurial Redemption, An Eco-Maniacal Opera.Here is his description:"An eco-maniacal opera, inspired by Elmer Fudd with music by Richard Wagner. Any resemblance to the classic "What's Opera Doc" with Bugs Bunny is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 7 Comments

I have posted multiple times before about how worldwide "green" technology and a variety of high tech industries were dependent on "rare earth minerals" mined almost exclusively in China.  U.S. production was shut down almost a decade ago over environmental concerns.  Among other things, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2010 1 Comment

Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) is upset with regulations issued by Obama's EPA to regulate carbon emissions.  These regulations are one of the ways Obama will implement parts of his cap-and-trade plans without Congress having to pass a cap-and-trade bill.Since West Virginia is a big coal state, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2010 5 Comments

The "we must do something now to save the planet" crowd is eating crow in Europe, as the European Commission biofuel plan is falling apart.As reported by The Independent, Biofuel plan will cause rise in carbon emissions:Britain's promise to more than double its use of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2010 11 Comments

Last January, and again in late September, I wrote that the Achilles heel of the Obama green energy agenda -- which involves a stifling of carbon-based energy use through taxation and regulation in favor of "green" energy sources -- failed to take into account that green energy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 10, 2010 4 Comments

On June 17, when Obama "informed" BP how much money it would have to set aside in a claims fund, I cautioned as follows:If the Constitution means nothing to you, and all you want is retribution, you will be left very unsatisfied.The claims procedures apparently...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 2 Comments

In mid-June, when Obama went on television to announce that he would "inform" BP how much it had to contribute to a compensation fund for the Gulf oil spill, I predicted that the fund -- despite the grandstanding -- would not put much money in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2010 14 Comments

No really. Milk is Oil according to the EPA, EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers:Having watched the oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, dairy farmer Frank Konkel has a hard time seeing how spilled milk can be labeled the same...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 4 Comments

Here is a full copy of Judge Martin L.C. Feldman granting a preliminary injunction preventing the implementation of the Obama administration's 6-month drilling moratorium. The actual Order is here.The key finding (at p. 3) was that the government was misleading in claiming that all experts...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 8 Comments

Barack Obama has staked the energy future of this country on wind energy:"Some say" Obama is obsessed with wind energy: Obama's speech: There's a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmillsAs with Obama's dream for socialized health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 3 Comments

Headline: "Payments from BP settlement slow to arrive in Gulf"Subheadline: "Unexpected bureaucratic snafus snarl claims system."--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 12 Comments

There is so much wrong with how Barack Obama has handled the Gulf oil spill, it's almost hard to know where to begin.Put aside the ineptitude of the approval process and clean up response. For today, I'm focusing on the tentative settlement with BP. While...

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