CEI Today: War on coal, true cost of ethanol, and the Battered Business Bureau

WAR ON COAL - MARLO LEWIS

Globalwarming.org: Yes, Coal Is Dying, and Yes, EPA Is the Main Culprit

EPA is targeting the coal industry with costly, nonsensical regulations for no discernible reason other than to placate the environmentalist wing of the President’s political party. Of course, this is crummy policy making, especially in the midst of a difficult economy.  > Read the analysis at Globalwarming.org

 

> Interview Marlo Lewis

 

TODAY! TELEPRESS BRIEFING: TRUE COST OF ETHANOL IN TIMES OF DROUGHT NEW REPORT RELEASED BY ACTIONAID USA PARTICIPANTS CAN DIAL (800) 944-8766 TELECONFERENCE CODE: 39756 WHAT: On the eve of the US Department of Agriculture’s latest crop estimates, and amidst global concerns about the impact of the U.S. drought on food prices and the economy, diverse experts weigh in on findings from a newly released study by ActionAid:Fueling the Food Crisis: The Cost to Developing Countries of U.S. Corn Ethanol Expansion. WHEN: October 10, 2012 at 10:00 am HOW:Dial (800) 944-8766, Teleconference Code: 39756 WHO: Kristin Sundell, Policy Analyst, ActionAid USA Timothy A. Wise, Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute Damon Wells, Vice President of Government Affairs, National Turkey Federation CONTACT: Patricia Brooks, patricia.brooks@actionaid.org; +1 (202) 351-1757 > Interview Marlo Lewis

BATTERED BUSINESS BUREAU - RYAN YOUNG Openmarket.org: CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation This week in the world of regulation: Last week, 88 new final rules were published, up from 71 the previous week. That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every 1 hour and 55 minutes — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All in all, 2,949 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year. If this keeps up, the total tally for 2012 will be 3,868 new rules.   >Read the full report analysis on Openmarket.org > Interview Ryan Young > See related: Federal Regulations A Red-Tape Wreck For Manufacturing

Profiles in Liberty: Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Christopher C. Horner serves as a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. As an attorney in Washington, DC, Horner has represented CEI as well as scientists and Members of the U.S. House and Senate on matters of environmental policy in the federal courts including the Supreme Court. Horner has testified before the United States Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Environment and Public Works, and works on a legal and policy level with numerous think tanks and policy organizations throughout the world. This week, Horner published a newly uncovered memo between the IPCC and EPA. Greenpeace has repeatedly targeted Mr. Horner, by stealing his garbage on a weekly basis, issuing press releases announcing with whom he dines and including him in various other hysterical publications including most recently “A Field Guide to Climate Criminals” distributed at the UN climate meeting in Montreal in December 2005. If you haven’t purchased his new book, The liberal War on Transparency: Confessions of a Freedom of Information “Criminal,” you should do so today! Follow him on Twitter @Chris_C_Horner. > View the United Liberty interview with Chris Horner by Matt Naugle

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