CEO Challenged Over Cap-and-Trade Support

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John Deere Executives Challenged Directly Over Company Support for Cap-and-Trade

Challenge Part of a Comprehensive “Pro-Liberty” Strategy to Combat CEOs Who Seek to Profit from Big Government

Washington, D.C.: John Deere executives were challenged at its annual stockholder meeting by representatives of the National Center for Public Policy Research Wednesday. The confrontation came over John Deere’s membership in the pro-cap-and-trade lobby group the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), and John Deere’s support for cap-and-trade legislation. Read more

USCAP Statement on Membership Changes Misleads Public

Statement of Tom Borelli PhD, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project

Statement of Tom Borelli PhD, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project

Washington, D.C.: The following is a statement from Tom Borelli, PhD., director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project: Read more

Obama Takes Another Hit

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President Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Policy Takes Another Hit: BP, Caterpillar and ConocoPhillips Exit USCAP Global Warming Lobbying Group

Washington, D.C.: President Obama’s cap-and-trade policy took another hit with the announcement that oil companies BP and ConocoPhillips and heavy equipment maker Caterpillar are leaving the high-profile United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) lobbying organization.

USCAP played a key role in lobbying for the Obama-supported Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill approved by the House of Representatives last year.

“The companies that bolted USCAP realized the organization was really a front group serving only the interests of GE and utility companies and their environmental allies. This became obvious when the Waxman-Markey bill gave the vast majority of free carbon allowances to the utility industry while GE reaped the reward of its lobbying muscle by securing federal mandates for electricity generation in a way that benefits GE’s wind turbine business,” said Tom Borelli, PhD, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project. Read more

Obama Comments Spur Special Interest Lobbying

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Following Obama Comments, Corporate and Environmental Special Interests Scramble to Lobby Administration Officials on Global Warming Legislation

Climategate and United Nations’ Controversies Eroding Political Support for Obama’s Policy, says National Center for Public Policy Research

Washington, D.C.: Desperation and panic over the imminent failure of cap-and-trade legislation is driving a new White House lobbying push by special interest groups, according to policy experts at the National Center for Public Research. Read more

New SEC Guidance on Climate Change to Affect CEOs

Another Blow to Obama’s Agenda: New SEC Guidance on Climate Change Disclosure Will Force CEOs Who Lobby for Cap-and-Trade to Expose the Business Risk of Cap-and-Trade Legislation to Shareholders

Washington, D.C.: Corporate CEOs who have been actively lobbying for cap-and-trade climate legislation may soon find themselves in an embarrassing position thanks to a new Securities and Exchange Commission regulation, says Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project.

The SEC voted January 27 to provide public companies with interpretive guidance that encourages corporations to disclose the possible business and legal impact of climate change to shareholders. Full disclosure will require companies to assess and describe how cap-and-trade legislation can harm company earnings. Read more

Congressional Black Caucus, EPA Start “Race Card Tour” to Promote Climate Regulation

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Washington, DC: An “environmental justice” public relations tour of economically-disadvantaged communities being led by EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and members of the Congressional Black Caucus is being criticized by Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli as a desperate attempt to play the “race card” to bolster the Obama Administration’s “cap-and-trade” emissions proposal.

Borelli contends energy limits, such as those in the Waxman/Markey bill approved by the U.S. House last year, would devastate the communities the EPA-CBC tour is highlighting as in need of help. Read more

Rex Rammell’s Plan For Idaho

Dr. Rex Rammell wants to be Governor of Idaho and he has a plan. I’ll guarantee you his plan is nothing you’ve ever heard before but don’t discount it either. It’s catching on in the Gem State.

The Copenhagen “Accord”

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Barack Obama rode into town on his carbon-spewing jet plane(s) with the intention of saving the Copenhagen Climate Conference and the planet from complete disaster. What he did was anger the Chinese and other developing countries and then he and his people went to work to create a spin that they salvaged an agreement with four countries on climate change.

According to Christopher Monckton, the four countries, of which he calls the “Forthright Four”, (China, India, Brazil, South Africa) demanded the following four conditions. Read more

“My Government Went to COP-15 and All I Got Was This Lousy Economy”

Copenhagen, Denmark: Members of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have convened in Copenhagen to negotiate for a climate treaty likely to devastate the economies of compliant nations.

To poke fun while warning of this folly, the National Center for Public Policy Research is handing out T-shirts that display a photo of a Great Depression soup line and read, “My government went to COP 15 and all I got was this lousy economy.” Read more

Black Activist to Obama: Promote Job Growth by Killing Cap-and-Trade

Washington D.C.: If the White House jobs summit is more than a publicity stunt, says Deneen Borelli of the Project 21 black leadership network, Obama should abandon efforts to implement a cap-and-trade policy, as it would kill jobs.

“If Obama is sincere about finding ways to fix our country’s employment crisis, he should start by putting the brakes on job-killing cap-and-trade legislation,” said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 fellow.

Obama is promoting today’s summit as a gathering of experts to “jumpstart” hiring and create new jobs. Unemployment recently rose to 10.2 percent, the highest rate since 1983. Read more

Wow! I Hate Being So Stupid! I Can’t Figure Out This Unemployment Rate Thing

Today the new unemployment figures came out and even though there was a job loss of 11,000 the unemployment rate dropped by two-tenths of a percentage point down to 10%. In previous reports it appeared to me that each time we lost around 500,000 jobs, the unemployment rate would go up about .1%. I just don’t get it.

It’s Settled! Obama’s “Restore Scientific Process” Means His Science

Climategate is the smoking gun. It is the biggest scandal to rock the scientific world since I don’t know when and everyone behind the con job are scrambling around to cover it up and pass it off as nothing more than a small group of scientists debating an issue. Sorry! That just doesn’t cut it anymore.

Earlier today we learned that the UN’s IPCC Climate guru, Rajendra Pachauri, said none of this leaked information would have any effect on the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).

And now it appears the brain dead, repeat-after-me thugs at the White House press corp are pounding the same drum. According to Michelle Malkin, she says Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, repeats pretty much what Pachauri mouthed earlier. Read more

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