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Climate Change Dispatch Mar 13, 2025 Great news! The EPA just announced it’s challenging the single most destructive regulatory action in US history: the “endangerment finding.”  [emphasis, links added] This bogus “finding” allowed Obama and Biden to ban gas cars, shut down power plants, slow US oil growth, and lock up our limitless natural gas. Ever wonder why the Biden EPA was able to become an economic dictator, prohibiting most Americans from buying a gas car after 2032 and effectively banning all coal plants and new natural gas plants after 2039? It started with the Obama EPA’s bogus “endangerment finding.”1 …

CBS News March 12, 2025 The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said it would “formally reconsider” a landmark 2009 finding by the agency that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. The announcement was one of a flurry of actions by the EPA to roll back a wide swath of environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants and electric vehicles. The EPA’s announcements also included narrowing the definition of waterways such as wetlands and streams that are protected under the Clean Water Act. The decisions start what is likely to be a years-long effort to repeal …

Climate Change Dispatch, March 5, 2025 Being accused of “molesting” data to promote climate alarmism is not worth $1 million in punitive damages, a judge ruled Tuesday in a 13-year-old defamation lawsuit that could have bankrupted the nation’s most venerable conservative magazine. [emphasis, links added] The District of Columbia Superior Court slashed the seven-figure punitive damages awarded to University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann, best known for his “hockey-stick” graph on climate change, to $5,000, rejecting Mann’s “entire rationale” for preserving the $1 million award: “deterrence and punishment.” Just the News covered the trial. Judge Alfred Irving wrote that …

rclutz.com Feb. 9, 2025 Legal Newsline reports the string of climate lawfare defeats in their article Fifth judge agrees with Big Oil, dismisses another climate change case.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – A New Jersey state court judge refuses to be the one who sets international energy standards and has thrown out a climate change lawsuit brought by the state. Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s case is one of dozens around the country making state law claims under consumer protection and public nuisance laws, and Mercer County Superior Court judge Douglas Hurd …

No Tricks Zone July 18, 2024 Global warming was supposed to open up Arctic region shipping routes, making the Northwest Passage easier and less risky to traverse. Per a new study, the opposite has happened. As we reported earlier this year, while a declining trend in Arctic sea ice was observed from the 1990s to 2007, there has been no trend reduction in Arctic sea ice since then. A 17-year pause. It has long been a “common belief” that shipping through Canada’s Northwest Passage would become “more viable” with a warming Arctic and  a consequent reduction in sea ice impediments. …

Climate Dispatch by Will Kessler | Sep 19, 2023. The state of California filed a lawsuit Saturday against major oil companies, claiming that their production of fossil fuels has contributed to climate change and natural disasters. The suit, which was filed in the Superior Court of California in the County of San Francisco, alleges that deception by the defendants caused a delayed societal response to global warming and that their misconduct has greatly affected people, property, and natural resources, according to court filings. [emphasis, links added] The suit targets oil companies Exxon, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP, and the trade group …

SEC chairman Gary Gensler Climate Change Dispatch Written by WSJ Editorial Board on Sep 18, 2023. Posted in Latest news When is a climate policy not a climate policy? Apparently when Chairman Gary Gensler of the Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to disguise the intent of his forthcoming climate-disclosure rule while testifying before Congress. The SEC last spring proposed a highly controversial rule that would require public companies to disclose their putative climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions, including those of suppliers and customers. [emphasis, links added] The rule is expected to be finalized soon and will likely meet …

Gateway Pundit July 24, 2023 by Jack Davis, The Western Journal Allegations are being leveled that the cancelation of a speech by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist is linked to his opinions about climate change. Scientist John Clauser, who won a Nobel prize in physics last year, had been scheduled to give a speech at a climate seminar hosted by the International Monetary Fund, according to the CO2Coaltion’s website. The site describes his presentation as having been “summarily canceled” and technically labeled postponed. I totally agree with Dr. John Clauser. https://t.co/WlHb3hFMkG pic.twitter.com/uhxqgzapwQ — John Shewchuk (@_ClimateCraze) July 22, 2023 The site …

Fox Business May 3, 2023 State will not do business with banks ‘beholden to social goals that override their fiduciary duties,’ Oklahoma state treasurer says Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ shares what he expects to accomplish with the boycotts on ‘The Bottom Line.’ Oklahoma is taking action Wednesday to ban 13 major financial institutions from doing business with the state after a review determined the banks engaged in energy boycotts. Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ is planning to announce the sweeping measure Wednesday morning which represents one of the most aggressive actions any state has …