How NOT to Regulate Pesticides: EU, Canada Lessons for Trump (Part I)

By -- December 15, 2016 3 Comments

“No chemical can both be effective in controlling crop pests and at the same time pass the unrealistically stringent tests imposed by the EU’s BGRD. Catch-22! That’s why EU member nation governments have refused to approve the BGRD for three years.”

The past eight years provided abundant experience with unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats creating new policies, laws, science, and regulations on carbon-based and renewable energy, climate change, air and water pollution, and a host of other topics.

Favored technologies received preferential treatment; those they opposed were hyper-regulated, as they sought to fundamentally transform our economy, agriculture, and living standards.

The new Trump Administration is now taking shape, amid bountiful signals that it will not blindly accept or rubberstamp previous environmental prescriptions. Indeed, the President-Elect’s nominations are generating approvals from many quarters, but howls of outrage from displaced special interests.…

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Trump on Verge of WIIN-ing* California Water War Before Taking Office

By -- December 13, 2016 3 Comments

(* Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, 2017 – WIIN Act)

There is no drought….If I win, believe me, we’re going to start opening up the water so that your farmers can survive” – Candidate Donald J. Trump, May 27, 2016, Fresno, California

“If we don’t move now, we run the real risk of legislation that opens up the Endangered Species Act in the future, when Congress will again be under Republican control, this time backed by a Trump administration.”  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), “Latest Compromise Drought Relief Bill Receives Praise, Opposition”, Capital Press, December 7, 2016.

President-Elect Donald J. Trump is poised to score a win-WIIN deal in the California water war as Congress has passed the bi-partisan Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act – Senate Bill 612). …

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Climategate: Never Forget (President-elect Trump hasn’t)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 29, 2016 13 Comments

“[Climate change is] a very complex subject. I’m not sure anybody is ever going to really know…. they say they have science on one side but then they also have those horrible emails that were sent between the [Climategate] scientists…. Terrible. Where they got caught, you know, so you see that and you say, what’s this all about. I absolutely have an open mind.”

– President-elect Donald Trump, “Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Transcript,” November 23, 2016. Quoted in Joe Romm, “Trump Fools the New York Times on Climate Change, ThinkProgress, November 23, 2016.

It has been seven years this month since the intellectual scandal erupted called Climategate. With President-elect Trump’s recent reference to the scandal, it is timely to recall some of the more salient quotations.…

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Time to Trump the Climate Hysteria (Clexit movement growing)

By Viv Forbes -- November 21, 2016 1 Comment

“These four actions – de-fang, de-fund, de-staff and re-educate–will cool the climate hysteria, with huge and immediate benefits for tax payers, jobs, industries and energy cost and security. It will also end the doomsday horror stories terrifying our young people. And if there is additional carbon dioxide in the air, our Earth will be greener and produce more food.”

“Consumers and taxpayers–the silent majority–have been forgotten in the growing climate hysteria. From Brexit to Trump, the forgotten have spoken. It is time to exit climate.”

The Climate Exit Coalition (Clexit) has pledged to assist any government or politician seeking to exit the Paris Agreement and to curb the wasteful and destructive UN/IPCC. Clexit has made available 190 well-qualified climate realists from 26 countries to provide scientific, business, legal and political support and advice.…

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Big Wind vs. Little Taxpayers: An Easy Budget Cut for Trump

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More on Energy/Climate from Trump

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 19, 2016 4 Comments Continue Reading

Trump & California’s Farm Water Vote

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Trump on Climate in 2009 (crony aside now corrected)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 13, 2016 4 Comments Continue Reading

Trump’s Energy Speech: Strong Free Market Directions

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 1, 2016 6 Comments Continue Reading

Trump’s NO to Climate Alarmism/Forced Energy Transformation (very good news from the campaign trail)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 16, 2016 4 Comments Continue Reading