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

EPA’s Jackson: “The Science Regarding Climate Change Is Settled”

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Like a 50s guy who refuses to give up penny loafers, white socks and his “ducktail” hairdo, Lisa Jackson, administrator of President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency, clings to the belief still that man is responsible for climate change. She told CNS News that just because there hasn’t been any warming in 15 years doesn’t mean there isn’t any warming. Sha na na na na na na, Sha na na na na na na! Bebop-a-lula she’s my baby! 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 To Redirect FWS Resources Toward Climate Research And Land Acquisition

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It appears Barack Obama’s promise to return science to its rightful place in dealing with conservation and environmental issues isn’t the science most of us hoped it would be. As a matter of fact, one has to question whether his decision to restructure the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service resources away from existing programs and funnel them into new programs geared toward climate research and land acquisition, has anything at all to do with science. From the New York Times: 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

Statement of David A. Ridenour on Congressional Junket to Copenhagen

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“CBS had only half the story”

Washington, DC: Statement of National Center for Public Policy Research vice president David A. Ridenour on Congressional excesses in Copenhagen:

“Thanks to CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson, we have an idea of the size of the carbon footprint left by Nancy Pelosi’s delegation to the global warming conference in Copenhagen last month.

It was big — so big that it would take more than 1,300 Bangledeshis a year to produce as much carbon.

Attkisson reported that the delegation consisted of at least 101 people, including 20 members of Congress. The delegation was so large, she reports, that it required three military aircraft to transport them. Read more

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

Nations Capping Carbon Mocked as “Suckers” …With Suckers

Copenhagen, Denmark: Hundreds of candy suckers are being distributed at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark today to mock nations that are imposing harsh limits on their carbon emissions at great economic cost for little or no environmental benefit. The group distributing them is the Washington, D.C.-based free market National Center for Public Policy Research.

The suckers bear the caption “Sucker for CO2 Limits.” 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

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