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    The document provides summaries of various news articles on climate change and energy issues from February 2015. It discusses topics such as criticisms of NOAA and NASA for allegedly helping the global warming narrative; an EPA official failing to reassure state regulators about the Clean Power Plan; an extension of the comment period on federal guidance to include climate change in environmental reviews; potential job losses from the Clean Power Plan by state; and British political leaders agreeing to policies that shut down coal plants without carbon capture.

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    20 February 2015

    In the News
    NOAA & NASA-GISS: Helping the Warming Narrative
    James Rust, Master Resource, 20 February 2015
    Note to EPA: Ideological Fervor Is Not an Alternative Source of Energy
    Washington Examiner editorial, 20 February 2015
    Police May Call IPCC Chairman Pachauri for Questioning
    Business Standard, 20 February 2015
    NRDCs *Laughable* Defense against Sen. Vitters Collusion Charges
    William Yeatman, GlobalWarming.org, 19 February 2015
    Electric Car Benefits? Just Myths
    Bjorn Lomborg, USA Today, 19 February 2015
    No China Peak Coal in Sight
    Armond Cohen, Energy Collective, 19 February 2015
    Kyoto Protocol: 10 Years of Triumph
    Benjamin Zycher, The American, 18 February 2015
    Citibank To Invest $100 Billion in Climate Change Projects
    Deirdre Fernandes, Boston Globe, 18 February 2015
    Peeking behind the Green Curtain (Editors Must-Read)
    Chris Horner, Washington Times, 17 February 2015
    The High Cost of Energy Illiteracy
    Steven Hayward, PowerLine, 16 February 2015

    News You Can Use


    Obamas Misplaced Priorities
    The Obama administration spent more per year on green energy subsidies over the last 5 years than it
    did on securing U.S. embassies, according to a report published this week by the Institute for Energy
    Research

    Inside the Beltway


    EPA Air & Radiation Chief Fails to Inspire Confidence at NARUC
    William Yeatman
    On Monday and Tuesday, state and utility regulators gathered in Washington, D.C. for the National
    Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners winter meeting. For obvious reasons, EPAs Clean
    Power Plan was the number one topic of discussion.
    State regulators were highly critical of the regulation, which would usurp the states long held
    prerogative over the retail provision of electricity. I think its pretty clear this is not workable for us,
    said Wyoming Public Service Commissioner Alan Minier. Texas Commissioner Kenneth Anderson
    described EPAs timelines as being physically impossible and completely unattainable.
    EPA Air & Radiation chief Janet McCabe, whose office is responsible for the rule, did little to quell the
    states concerns. As reported by E&E EnergyWires ($), McCabe told the state regulators that it is
    incumbent upon state regulators to tell the agency how to ensure that the Clean Power Plan doesnt
    threaten reliability.
    McCabes comments are very troubling. After all, the comment period for the rule already has passed.
    The agency has given itself a July deadline to finish the rule, which is only five months away. Yet the EPA
    now is saying that it needs ideas as to how to ensure the rule doesnt endanger reliability. Shouldnt the
    agency have foreseen this problem?

    White House CEQ Extends Comment Deadline on NEPA Guidance


    Myron Ebell
    The White House Council on Environmental Quality has announced that it is extending the comment
    period until 25th March on its revised draft guidance document on how federal agencies should include
    climate change and greenhouse gas emissions in preparing Environmental Impact Statement under the
    National Environmental Policy Act. The comment period was set to end on 23rd February.
    The guidance document follows the language of NEPA, enacted in 1970, by recommending that the
    direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from proposed actions be
    considered in an EIS. NEPA applies to all major federal actions, including permitting decisions. The
    guidance also considers the use of the Department of Energys Social Cost of Carbon guidance
    document.
    The original draft guidance was released in 2009 but never finalized. The revised draft is available here.
    Comments may be submitted electronically at [email protected]. My CEI colleague Marlo
    Lewis has been rushing to finish lengthy comments and will now have time to polish them and ask other
    non-profit groups to join in signing them.

    Across the States


    Clean Power Plan Employment Losses by State and District
    The Heritage Foundation this week published a study that breaks down the employment impacts of
    EPAs Clean Power Plan by state and congressional district. The study is a refinement of a previous
    analysis that found the rule would eliminate 580,000 manufacturing jobs and cause a loss of almost $2.5
    trillion from the gross national product. Click here to see how many jobs the Clean Power Plan would
    cost your district.

    Around the World


    Myron Ebell

    British Political Establishment Unites In Economic Suicide Pact


    The UK Climate Coalition announced on Saint Valentines Day that British Prime Minister David
    Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, and Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband had signed a
    joint agreement on climate policy. The leaders of the three main political partiesConservative, Liberal
    Democratic, and Laborpledge to work together on three key areas: achieving a new legally-binding UN
    climate agreement that limits global warming to two degrees Celsius; agreeing on a carbon budget
    that achieves the targets set in the Climate Change Act of 2008; and enacting policies that accelerate
    the transition to a competitive, energy efficient low carbon economy and that shut down coal-fired
    power plants unless they are equipped with carbon capture and storage technology.
    Londons political establishment has been in full agreement on global warming and energy-rationing
    policies for many years. The Cameron-Clegg-Miliband pact seems to me a potentially significant step
    beyond the existing consensus for at least two reasons. First, it means that climate policy will not be an
    issue between the three parties in the upcoming general election campaign. It will be up to the United
    Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) to challenge the establishment consensus. Polling has shown that
    most Britons, like most Americans, dont believe global warming is a crisis that warrants the ruinously
    costly policies supported by the three major parties.
    Second, the three leaders are clueless about the economic effects of their policies and so is the Climate
    Coalition that arranged the agreement as part of their Show the Love campaign. The reliably leftist
    Independent newspaper reported last year that 2.28 million British households now live in fuel
    poverty. Lucy Jolin writing last year in the equally leftist Guardian reported that there were an
    additional 31,000 deaths in Britain last winter from cold weather. Many of those who died were elderly
    people who could not afford adequate heating. The Climate Coalition includes over 100 organizations as
    members, including Oxfam and Christian Aid.

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