Category Archives: Environment

Cosmic Climate Change

What is it about the term “cosmic rays” that takes all of us back to Buck Rogers, hokey space ships and the presumption that “it’s all made up.” Continue reading

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EPA Ignoring Evidence on Risk of Mercury Emissions from Power Plants

Despite a lack of evidence to support their assertions, EPA continues to insist that mercury emissions from US power plants pose a significant risk. This line of thinking poses great harm to the affordability of electricity. Continue reading

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EPA Faces Hostile Ag Congressmen

“The EPA used heavy-handed tactics with states, flawed models and showed a disregard for costs in developing a new Bay cleanup plan, members of Congress and the agricultural community charged at a recent hearing,” claims the Chesapeake Bay Journal in the April, 2011, edition. Continue reading

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EPA Rules Will Hurt Virginia’s Health, Economy and Minority Populations

Taken together, everything EPA is doing to tax and penalize coal use will result in huge increases in electricity prices that will hammer family budgets, especially in minority communities, impair nutrition and health and make it harder for many to heat, cool and pay for their homes. Continue reading

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Putting Wind on Trial

Hard facts have emerged from the noise of environmental activism, from the hush of subsidy-driven self-interested energy company green-washing and from the increasingly grumpy offices of the state public utility commissions. Wind is not affordable and it is not clean. Continue reading

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