EPA Chief: Climate Skeptics Are Not 'Normal People'; Press Snoozes

June 25th, 2015 11:58 PM
Though such instances are quite rare, especially from conservative and Republican office-holding politicians and bureaucrats, we've been told time and again by the left that it's people on the right who demonize and dehumanize their opponents. Well, I don't recall George W. Bush, anyone in his administration, or any Republican congressman or senator serving at the time of his tax cuts or during…

Red State Dems Urge Obama to Approve Keystone Pipeline; Broadcast Nets

February 5th, 2014 6:30 PM
Yesterday afternoon three red state Democratic senators -- plus Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) -- joined a number of Republican legislators and the Canadian ambassador to the United States at a press conference called to publicly press President Obama to approve the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline. Such a show of bipartisan and international agreement on an economic-development issue is…

AP's Daly Hides Foiled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Nominee's

October 1st, 2013 11:26 PM
On Tuesday, Ron Binz, nominated by President Obama to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, withdrew his name from consideration. Those who want to see the economy prosper should be relieved that the position described by Matthew Daly at the Associated Press as that of "the nation's top energy regulator" won't be occupied by a died-in-the-wool "renewable" energy radical. The AP's…

Press-Enabled EPA Issues New Rules Mandating Use of Fuels Which Don't

February 27th, 2013 8:35 AM
The rogue collection of bureaucrats known as the Environmental Protection Agency continues its lawless ways. The establishment press continues to serve as enablers. In January, a federal court vacated the EPA's regulations mandating the use of cellulosic biofuels which weren't produced at all until last year, and barely exist now. In response, the agency, directly defying the court, increased…

AP Whitewashes EPA's Defiance of Federal Court Ruling on Ethanol Manda

January 31st, 2013 9:17 PM
Let's see. Last week, USA Today reported that "A federal court delivered a defeat to the biofuels industry Friday, ruling the U.S. government exceeded its authority by requiring refiners to purchase cellulosic biofuel despite the fact the next-generation fuel is not commercially available." Specifically, the court ruled, in Hebert's words that "the Environmental Protection Agency had 'the…

AP 'GOP Says' Story on DOE's Election-Driven Solyndra Layoff Delay Cit

November 16th, 2011 12:53 PM
You would think that a story headlined "GOP says Energy Dept. tried to delay solar layoffs" would have a quote or two from a Republican Party spokesperson, politician, candidate or even a rank-and-file party member alleging that, well, the Energy Department tried to delay layoffs at now-bankrupt Solyndra. It doesn't. The "trifling" matter clearly didn't concern the headline writer at the…

As Its Execs Say They'll Take the Fifth, AP Calls Solyndra an 'Embarra

September 22nd, 2011 1:09 AM
Let's note the likely reason why what Julia Seymour observed earlier today is the case -- namely, that network news reports have taken to calling the Solyndra situation an "embarrassment." The use of that term probably dates back to September 16, which is as far as I can tell the first time the Associated Press filed a beyond-perfunctory report about now-bankrupt Solyndra, the beneficiary of…

AP's Sept. 16 Solyndra Story, Part 2: A Pathetic 'Both Parties Were In

September 17th, 2011 12:50 AM
Part 1 on the Associated Press's September 16 evening story ("Obama admin reworked Solyndra loan to favor donor"; saved here at my web host for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes) by Matthew Daly and Jack Gillum criticized the reporters and the wire service for making it appear as if all the findings in the story were the result of original work. Two other paragraphs in the…

AP's Sept. 16 Solyndra Story, Part 1: Passing Off Weeks-Old News As It

September 16th, 2011 10:50 PM
The public learned on September 3 from William McQuillen at Bloomberg (possibly earlier elsewhere) that now-bankrupt Soyndra's private investors restructured the company's finances in January by lending the company "$75 million." As a condition of doing so, they convinced the government to give the new loan senior status over all other creditors. Now taxpayers face a likely loss of hundreds of…