RegulationsCA Energy Schemes: ‘We are getting fleeced’Thursday, April 5th, 2012 April 5, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board has created a stealthy new corporation in Delaware. The Western Climate Initiative Inc., which will manage cap-and-trade programs, even has its own form of currency. WCI Inc. says it exists “to perform administrative a... Democrats in the Legislature Chicken Out of Climate Debate With Lord MoncktonMonday, March 12th, 2012 MAR. 12, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Despite the obvious shift in the climate change and global warming debate, Democratic politicians are trying to hold fast and furious onto the notion that man is causing potentially disastrous global warming through carbon emissions. A movement, which at one... Government Nannies Attack Food TrucksThursday, March 8th, 2012 MARCH 9, 2012 By DAVE ROBERTS A food fight has broken out between a liberal Democratic assemblyman and a liberal Democratic San Francisco supervisor over the banning of food vending trucks near schools. It’s a battle of nanny government officials -- with the collateral damage being the live... CARB ‘Rogue Agency’ Snubs LegislatorsThursday, March 1st, 2012 MAR. 1, 2012 By KATY GRIMES A Wednesday hearing in the Legislature to discuss pending state cap-and-trade auction revenues produced very few answers. But it did prove that no one in the state has a handle on the implementation of AB 32, the Global Warming Solution Act of 2006, or the potential... Obamacare Will Amputate California DreamTuesday, February 28th, 2012FEB. 28, 2012 by WAYNE LUSVARDI Rationing health care under Obamacare will end up politicizing and bankrupting the medical financing system, just as Medicare does. And there will be middle-class resistance to Obamacare when it is realized that this will end the American Dream of leaving your... Cement Emissions Controls Could Kill JobsTuesday, February 14th, 2012 FEB. 14, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI William Shakespeare wrote a farcical play, “Much Ado About Nothing.” California is apparently acting out Shakespeare’s play in Tehachapi where the Lehigh Cement Company plant produced nearly nothing of mercury to the alarm of environmentalists, regulators,... CA Launches Green Chemistry InquisitionMonday, February 6th, 2012 FEB. 6, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI No one expects the California Green Chemistry Inquisition. In post-industrial California, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control has launched an inquisition called the Green Chemistry Initiative to determine if there are safer alternatives to th... Big Brother CARB Is Watching YouFriday, February 3rd, 2012 FEB. 3, 2012 By JOHN SEILER I love cars. The best auto site in the Internet is EricPetersAutos.com. He writes not just about old and new cars, but about the politics of cars. Another great site, LewRockwell.com, just published an article by Peters on how the government is spying on us thro... Brown Wrong on Factory Job Loss RateThursday, February 2nd, 2012FEB. 2, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California Gov. Jerry Brown may have met his moment of infamy on a Feb 1 TV show. He said, “California is losing manufacturing jobs at a rate no faster than the rest of the country.” Brown’s claim is not backed up by data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor ... Science: Time to Freeze AB 32Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 JAN. 31, 2012 By CHRISS STREET California’s wildly expensive AB 32, Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, is supposed to prevent man-made global warming. AB 32 took effect Jan. 1 -- just in time for it to suffer another devastating scientific blow. Temperature data from 30,000 worldwide mea... |