California GOP Takes Jerry Brown’s Sky High Gas Tax Hike To The Voters

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A Republican lawmaker in California filed a ballot initiative Monday to repeal a recently approved $52 billion gas tax. “In 2010, Jerry Brown said, ‘there should be no tax increases without a vote of the people.’ Repealing the gas tax will simply help him keep his promise to California voters,” California Assemblyman Travis Allen said […]

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May 9, 2017 at 09:44AM

Macron Told Trump He Would ‘Protect’ The Paris Climate Agreement

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French President-elect Emmanuel Macron told President Donald Trump he would “protect” the Paris climate change agreement during their first phone conversation Monday. “He told him he’s going to try to protect what was made in Paris,” Macron’s spokeswoman Laurence Haim told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Monday. “He is going to protect the climate agreement,” Haim said. […]

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May 9, 2017 at 09:44AM

The Heatwave Of May 10, 1896

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On May 10, 1896, most of the Eastern US was over 90 degrees. More than three-fourths of USHCN stations were over 80 degrees. If that sort of heat occurred now, climate scientists would say they were 99% certain it was due to man-made CO2, and that government needs to take action.

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May 9, 2017 at 09:44AM

A fool’s errand: Al Gore’s $15 trillion carbon tax

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Al Gore wants to reverse modernity and save the world from itself through an elimination of its fossil-fuel-based energy system. During the final week of April, his newly created Energy Transitions Commission released a document setting forth a fool’s errand pathway to “decarbonize” the world’s energy system. If this sounds familiar, it is. Gore’s plan […]

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