...how they have so much time to care about the planet.
"If the world leaders who attended the U.N. meetings had an ounce of integrity, they would admit that the Paris accord has been about as successful as the Bay of Pigs invasion."
Hey, Brian "Carbon Tax" Fitzpatrick, you represent Philadelphia, not Paris.
The Hill (9/26/19) reports: "A new bill introduced by Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) would place a price on carbon and invest revenue in infrastructure. The bipartisan Market Choice Act co-sponsored with Democratic Reps. Salud Carbajal and Scott Peters of California aims to reduce emissions and invest in infrastructure projects such as those for highways and bridges. It would do so by replacing the federal gasoline tax with a tax on carbon emissions from sources of fossil fuel combustion like power plants...The bill calls for a tax of $35 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions starting in 2021 with rates increasing cumulatively thereafter. 'We are at a crossroads with regard to infrastructure and climate change,' said Fitzpatrick in a statement Thursday...The bill mirrors one introduced with the same name by former GOP lawmaker Carlos Curbelo of Florida in 2018. Curbelo at the time was the first Republican to introduce a national carbon pricing bill in almost a decade. Fitzpatrick co-sponsored that bill. Now he is a leader of the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus."
Sure, let's have the guy who linked natural gas to slavery and apartheid educate journalists about climate change.
Inside Sources (9/25/19) column: "Recently (Sept. 16-22), more than 170 news outlets around the world devoted coverage to climate change. The project, dubbed Covering Climate Now, may seem like a feel-good effort to raise awareness of sound environmental policies. But it’s actually an attempt by climate extremists to go mainstream. The weeklong campaign was officially spearheaded by The Nation, but it’s the brainchild of Bill McKibben, a well-known climate activist who for years has worked to brand fossil fuel companies as 'Public Enemy Number One.'...Covering Climate Now began with an email campaign designed to bully journalists into supporting the project. The emails called on reporters to fulfill their 'professional responsibility' and stop 'underplaying the climate story.'...According to the organization’s website, journalists can even 'learn the science' of climate change from Bill McKibben. There’s just one problem — McKibben’s writings contain more rhetoric than science. Consider his work at 350.org, an anti-fossil fuel group he co-founded and currently leads. The group likens the extraction of oil, gas and coal reserves to the 'crimes of slavery, totalitarianism, colonialism or apartheid.'"
Like father, like son.
The Daily Beast (9/25/19) reports: "He might look like he’s got it made: a vast personal fortune, a beautiful wife, celebrity friends (and easy access to their fleet of private jets), most of his own hair, and free food. But don’t let these outward trappings of privilege and good fortune fool you into thinking that the private life of Prince Harry conforms with his happy-go-lucky exterior. Indeed, Prince Harry says he is so crushed by the state of the planet that he sometimes struggles to get out of bed in the morning...Harry’s comments drew immediate comparison to the doom-mongering of his father, Prince Charles, who said in July that there were just 18 months left to save the world (so, 16 now).Harry may well have inherited his eco-depression from his father. Ahead of last week’s global “climate strike,” during which children were encouraged to skip school to protest the response to climate change, researchers warned that children are increasingly suffering anxiety and grief about climate change, and urged parents to discuss the issue with their kids in an age-appropriate way. (So, not 'The world will end in 18 months, kids.')"
Generations of childhoods robbed (by their parents).
Apparently Elon Musk has some competition.
E&E News (9/26/19) reports: "German authorities say they have arrested two Pakistani men accused of being part of a criminal gang engaged in a large-scale tax scam involving emissions certificates. Prosecutors said today that the 37- and 40-year-old men were arrested Tuesday at Frankfurt Airport after they flew in from Pakistan to give themselves up. Frankfurt prosecutor Alexander Badle said German authorities issued international arrest warrants in 2014 for the suspects, whose names weren't released. Along with another Pakistani man, who was sentenced in 2016 to more than eight years imprisonment, the suspects are alleged to have fraudulently claimed €136 million ($150 million) from tax authorities between August 2009 and April 2010. As in a separate but similar case, the gang used Deutsche Bank to trade the emissions certificates and reclaim taxes they never paid."
Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste
Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government
Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks
Craig Richardson, E&E Legal
Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute
Amy Oliver Cooke, Independence Institute
Jason Hayes, Mackinac Center
David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
Seton Motley, Less Government
Nathan Nascimento, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce
Isaac Orr, Center of the American Experiment
David T. Stevenson & Clint Laird, Caesar Rodney Institute
John Droz, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
Jim Karahalios, Axe the Carbon Tax
Mark Mathis, Clear Energy Alliance
Mandy Gunasekara, Energy 45
Jack Ekstrom, PolicyWorks America
