StormX :: Severe Weather : The Pacific Ocean’s Influence on Climate Change: How Low Will the PDO Go?

The strongly negative PDO was influential in shaping North American climate during the past year. In 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, recorded only 2 days above 70 degrees F, the least number of days to exceed 70 since records began in 1917.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » EPA fulfills Obama’s promise on coal

In a dramatic move yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew the air quality permit it issued last summer for the Desert Rock coal-fired power plant, which is slated to be built on the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region just southwest of Farmington, New Mexico. …
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The EPA sided with the state of New Mexico on other grounds, but they’re pretty transparent. The regulators said that the Navajos should have proposed using a gasification process that’s still in the experimental phase and hasn’t been proven at all. In fact, Al Gore called it a myth just this month, so apparently the EPA expected the Navajos to include a mythical system in order to retroactively justify the permit they had in their hand.

Obama has declared war on energy producers, and the EPA is his regulatory army. They just won their first victory, and the Navajos will be poorer for it — and so will their potential customers, who could have benefited from more plentiful resources.