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EPA’s Costly, Unnecessary Soot Proposal
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EPA continues to act tone deaf to the real-world needs of U.S. businesses and regular Americans. Its particle standards proposal issued this week is a good example of the kind of investment-squelching overregulation that ultimately could hurt the country’s energy future.With the country’s air continuing to improve under the existing fine...[read more]
If You’re Male and <40, Thank The Clean Air Act …
We know that the regulation leads to a safer society and that regulatory paths toward reducing pollution loads leads to a healthier society. These are simply facts. Those facts, however, can be difficult to translate from larger statistics to our personal lives. A new research paper from Nicholas J. Sanders and Charles F. Stoecker provides something that any American young man might wish to consider.[read more]
Clean Diesel in Your Tank
The most massive fuel transition ever attempted in the United States has been occurring quite smoothly over the past few years without so much as a hiccup. It is the slow and steady movement from Low Sulfur Diesel Fuel to Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) fuel that started in 2006 and will continue through 2014. ULSD fuel was mandated by...[read more]
If green jobs create air pollution are they still green?
A Pennsylvania company announced today that it has picked a site in Montgomery County, south of Greensboro, for its third North Carolina power plant that will generate electricity using poultry droppings. Fibrowatt wants to build the plant near Biscoe. Fibrowatt has previously announced plans to build similar power plants in Sampson...[read more]
Stunning opening ceremonies — brought to you by coal power
The Chinese have delivered the most technologically advanced opening ceremonies in Olympic history. And truly staggering stuff aesthetically. A key theme was “harmony” — but sadly the country achieves only a surface harmony, one built on stifling dissidents and on the most carbon-intensive economy in the world. Surely a country the...[read more]
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