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Kentucky Rep. Barr on EPA coal rules: ‘The outcome of these ruinous regulations will be hundreds of thousands of Americans added to the unemployment lines’ | JunkScience.com

“These greenhouse gas rules are designed to complete the job that years of regulatory attacks and delayed permits started: the elimination of coal from the energy marketplace,” Barr said in a statement. “The outcome of these ruinous regulations will be hundreds of thousands of Americans added to the unemployment lines and, in President Obama’s own words, electricity costs that will ‘necessarily skyrocket.’”

An Awkward Day to Be Terry McAuliffe: Obama’s new carbon controls put this Virginia Democrat in a political pickle | JunkScience.com

The state’s southwest is coal-mining country, and many Virginians rely on coal plants to keep the lights on. While Democrats in other coal states have distanced themselves from the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement, so far McAuliffe has been mostly keeping quiet. Don’t be fooled though. As National Journal’s Coral Davenport reported, this is an extremely important if uncomfortable time for the Old Dominion Democrat.

An open invitation to Tim Flannery to explain climate science to us here « JoNova

To help you until you get your own blog running in full, I extend an open invitation to you for a guest post anytime, unedited, and in full with graphs and images. Links to your own material will help your google rank.