11 July 2014

Announcements
The Heartland Institutes 9th International Conference on Climate Change took place this
week in Las Vegas. Click here to find video archives of all the sessions.

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow this week announced plans for a new
documentary film to counter global warming alarmism. Climate Hustle is set to be hosted
by C-FACTs own Marc Morano and is currently seeking donations to make the project a
reality. You can view the trailer and donate to the project here.
In the News
Economic Consequences of EPAs Climate Regime
James Rust, Master Resource, 11 July 2014
Worried Moms: Global Warming Endangers Our Kids
Paul Strand, CBN News, 10 July 2014
$6 a Gallon? Where Gas Prices Could Be without the U.S. Energy Boom
Rob Nikolewski, Daily Signal, 10 July 2014
House Republicans Threaten To Subpoena EPA over Carbon Rules
Timothy Cama, The Hill, 9 July 2014
Rebutting the Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax
Marlo Lewis, GlobalWarming.org, 9 July 2014
Obama Concedes His Climate Plan Could Raise Electricity Prices
Andrew Powaleny, The Hill, 9 July 2014
Power Grab: EPA Wants To Garnish Wages of Accused Polluters
S. A. Miller, Washington Times, 8 July 2014
Rolling Coal Trucks Troll Environmentalists
Daniel Strauss, Talking Points Memo, 7 July 2014
News You Can Use
Were #1 (in Oil & Natural Gas Liquids)
According to new analysis by the International Energy Agency and the Bank of America, the
United States is now the worlds largest oil and natural gas liquids producer, overtaking both
Saudi Arabia and Russia.
Inside the Betway
Myron Ebell
House Passes Energy Appropriations Bill with Climate
Riders
The House of Representatives on 19th July passed and sent to the Senate the FY 2015 Energy
and Water Appropriations bill, H. R. 4293, by a vote of 253 to 170. Several amendments that
limit or forbid funds being used by the Department of Energy to implement the Obama
Administrations climate and energy-rationing agenda were adopted.
By 229-188, the House approved an amendment offered by Representative David McKinley (R-
WV) that would prohibit spending on the National Climate Assessment, the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UNs Agenda 21, and the Social Cost of
Carbon. By 227-191, the House approved Rep. James Lankfords (R-Okla.) amendment to
block DOE funds being used to prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulation that relies on
the Social Cost of Carbon guidance document.
An amendment offered by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Az.) to prohibit funding of the DOEs Climate
Model Development and Validation program passed 226-194. And once again, the House
added the rider offered by Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Tex.) that prevents the Department of
Energy from spending any money to implement or enforce the ban on incandescent light bulbs
contained in the (anti-) Energy Independence and Security of 2007. The vote was 226 to 193.
Unlike the Senate, where even Democrats in the majority are prevented by Majority Leader
Harry Reid (D-Nev.) from offering amendments, the House Rules Committee allowed a number
of amendments to be offered by Democratic Members. Several were adopted.
New York Times Reports NRDC Wrote EPA Climate Regs
The New York Times published a story on 7th July that explains how David Doniger, David
Hawkins, and Daniel Lashof at the Natural Resources Defense Council spent two years writing
the 110-page blueprint for the Environmental Protection Agencys recently released proposed
rule to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. I normally find the New
York Times unbearably rancid, but this article by reporter-green advocate Coral Davenport is
worth reading.
The claim that NRDC wrote the EPAs new reg, which have been made previously in less
detailed form by several opponents, was immediately denied in an internal e-mail by EPA
Administrator Gina McCarthy that was leaked to the mainstream media. According the Hill
newspaper, McCarthy wrote, According to an article from Monday, you just cut and pasted a
particular [non-governmental organizations] proposal and called it a day. If you're laughing right
now, it's because you know just how preposterous that is.
Although I think that the New York Times story is accurate and McCarthy knows it, there are
good reasons why the Obama Administration needs to deny it. Environmental pressure groups
got a lot of mileage out of dubious charges that the George W. Bush Administrations energy
plan was largely written by Big Oil. It might look equally bad that the Obama Administrations
energy-rationing regulations have been written by Big Green.
Personnel Moves at API, LCV, and NextGen
The American Petroleum Institute announced this week that Louis Finkel has been hired as their
new executive vice president and top lobbyist. Finkel was most recently executive vice
president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, but he spent several years as the chief of
staff for Democrats on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. He has also
worked on several Democratic campaigns and was briefly a lobbyist for Exxon Mobil, the largest
member company of API and supporter of a carbon tax.
Fuel Fix quoted Finkel: Im a Democrat; I always have been, he said during a meeting
Thursday with reporters. I spent a lot of time on the Hill in Democratic politics, both in
government service (and) working in campaigns. He made it clear that API would support the
re-election of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska): We need to be
supportive of members on both sides of the aisle when they are supportive of our policy
objectives, Finkel said. Weve had an opportunity over a long window with both Landrieu and
Begich to watch them and work with them and see how they are going to perform. Theyve been
supportive and theres no reason for us to not continue our support. But he did admit that
Senator Mark Udalls (D-Colo.) record on oil and gas issues is mixed.
Finkel replaces Marty Durbin, who earlier this year became head of Americas Natural Gas
Alliance. Durbin was also a Hill staffer for Democrats and is the nephew of Senator Dick Durbin
(D-Ill.), the Majority Whip.
In other personnel moves, Daniel Weiss has left the comically-named Center for American
Progress to become senior vice president for campaigns at the League of Conservation
Voters. Before his stint as director of climate strategy at CAP, Weiss served for eight years as
political director at the Sierra Club.
And earlier this year, Daniel Lashof, who has been one of the top leaders of the Natural
Resources Defense Councils climate and energy-rationing program for 25 years, was named
chief operating officer of NextGen Climate America. It is the 501(c)(3) arm of NextGen Climate
Action. Both were founded by and are funded by California investment fund billionaire Tom
Steyer. Lashof has been in charge of NRDCs climate programs since 2008, during which period
NRDC has spent $200 million on devising and promoting policies to increase energy prices and
impoverish Americans and, indeed, people around the world.
Across the States
Myron Ebell
Wyoming
Several science education groups and one environmental pressure group have launched the
Climate Science Students Bill of Rights to lobby for the climate science education
components in the Next Generation Science Standards. The Wyoming legislature passed a
rider in March that prohibits the Wyoming Board of Education from adopting the standards
because they require the teaching of junk climate science. The Wyoming Board of Education
recently decided to delay implementing any part of the NGSS until the Wyoming legislature
repeals its prohibition.
The groups in the new coalition include the Union of Concerned Scientists, a hard-left anti-
nuclear pressure group, the National Center for Science Education, the Alliance for Climate
Education, and Climate Parents. An effort in the Oklahoma legislature to block the NGSS for the
same reason as in Wyoming failed, and Governor Mary Fallin (R) recently implemented the
standards, including their global warming propaganda components.
Colorado & New York
New Yorks highest court ruled on 30th June that cities and towns have the authority to ban
hydraulic fracturing within their jurisdictions. The Court of Appeals upheld lower court rulings
that dismissed challenges to bans enacted by the towns of Dryden and Middlefield.
In Colorado, the Democratic-controlled legislature and Governor John Hickenlooper (D) have
failed to agree on a bill that would allow cities and counties to regulate hydraulic fracturing but
not allow them to ban it. Five local jurisdictions have voted to ban fracking, but only the State
has authority to regulate oil and gas production under current law. Up to nine anti-fracking and
three pro-fracking measures will now appear on the general election ballot in November.
Around the World
Patrick Hannaford
Carbon Tax Repeal fails, but Government Still Hopeful

In disappointing news, the Australian Senate this week rejected legislation to scrap the carbon
tax. The legislation was rejected by 37 to 35 votes, after the Palmer United Party (PUP) made a
last minute decision to renege on their agreement with the government.

Although reports differ, it appears that PUP leader Clive Palmer was not satisfied with
amendments agreed to by the government and demanded harsher penalties for energy
companies that do not pass on savings to consumers. Not being able to introduce their
amendment for constitutional reasons tax legislation must be introduced in the House of
Representatives - the Palmer United Party then decided to oppose the legislation, breaking their
agreement with the Government and their own election promise. Despite the setback, the
Liberal-National coalition government remains confident and is set to re-introduce the legislation
in parliament on Monday.