Jillian Bandes : GOP Looks to Halt Cap-and-Trade - Townhall.com

The Republican get-together was large, open, and broadcast on television.

"What are the Democrats doing now?" asked Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) in front of a room full of reporters and cameras. "They're trying to cut a deal behind closed doors."

The "potential for unintended consequences" on cap-and-trade is "limitless," said Paul Cicio, President of Industrial Energy Consumers of America, another speaker at the summit. The legislation threatened to dismantle the manufacturing industry, create trade wars, and make carbon into a competitive weapon.

The Bias Against Oil and Gas | Print Article | Newsweek.com

It's insane not to encourage U.S. production. The same is true on economic grounds because the promise of green jobs is wildly exaggerated. Look at the numbers. In 2008 the oil and gas industries employed 1.8 million people. Jobs in the solar and wind industries are reckoned (by their trade associations) to be 35,000 and 85,000, respectively. Now do the arithmetic: a 5 percent rise in oil jobs (90,000) almost equals a doubling for wind and solar (120,000). Modest movements, up or down, in oil and natural gas will swamp plausible changes in green jobs. They won't save the economy.

Improved exploration and production techniques—drilling in deeper waters, horizontal drilling, hydraulic "fracturing" (pumping liquids into fields to open up seams)—have increased America's recoverable amounts of oil and natural gas. The resistance to availing ourselves of these resources is mostly political and psychological. Among many environmentalists, the idea of expanding fossil-fuel production is a cardinal sin. It offends their religion. The Obama administration too often caters to this reflexive hostility. The resulting policies aim more to satisfy popular prejudice—through reassuring photo ops and sound bites—than meet the country's needs.

Kerala online - Life-style - kidney stones in children

Modern diet and lifestyle, along with global warming, are contributing to an alarming phenomenon — kidney stones in children.

BillingsGazette.com :: Freudenthal weighs in on climate [hoax] bill

CASPER - Gov. Dave Freudenthal says legislation being considered in Congress places an undue burden on small refiners in Wyoming.

Because handing out bags of money might raise questions: Waxman Said to Offer Free Pollution Credits in Climate [Swindle] Talks - Bloomberg.com

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, sponsor of a plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, is offering power producers and companies such as steelmakers free pollution permits, said people familiar with negotiations.

Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the proposal in an effort to win approval in his panel for legislation to establish a carbon- trading system, said the people, who declined to be identified discussing the private talks. The free permits may be worth as much as $40 billion a year according to Mike McKenna, president of MWR Strategies, a policy consulting firm based in Washington.