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Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth The Obama administration’s proposed curbs on coal-burning power plants could prevent thousands of deaths each year from heart attack and respiratory disease, scientists said Monday in the first peer-reviewed study to examine the measure’s health impacts. Many parts of the country could see immediate improvements in air quality as a side-effect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed “Clean Power Plan” regulations, which are primarily intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, the researchers said in a study published in Nature Climate Change . Depending on implementation, the proposals could prevent about 3,500 premature deaths a year, mostly from respiratory disease, said the study’s authors, scientists from Harvard and Syracuse universities and four other institutions. “The bottom line is, the more the standards promote cleaner fuels and energy efficiency, the greater the added health benefits,” said...

Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth If the following report is true, and it likely is, we are seeing the science deniers in the Republican party at work in Florida. the guardian - ‘Global warming’ and ‘sustainability’ among phrases allegedly barred at state’s Department of Environmental Protection, investigative report finds Officials with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the agency in charge of setting conservation policy and enforcing environmental laws in the state, issued directives in 2011 barring thousands of employees from using the phrases “climate change” and “global warming”, according to a bombshell report by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR). The report ties the alleged policy, which is described as “unwritten”, to the election of Republican governor Rick Scott and his appointment of a new department director that year. Scott, who was re-elected last November, has declined to say whether he believes in climate chang...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Liberty -vs- Tyranny Climate change . The result of man's ultimate selfishness and disregard for nature and the cosmos. The only solution is adherence to the questionable "science" of global warming and the pontifications of the oracle of wisdom. The man who invented the internet... Al Gore . Or as I fondly refer to him, Al Gorelione. It should be apparent by now that our progressive President has bought into the arguments presented by Mr. Gorelione and his fellow climate change "scientists". While the U.S.A wisely opted out of the Kyoto Protocol and resisted overreaching climate change regulations and with Cap and Trade going no where, at least for now, our esteemed President has found it appropriate to do the ultimate end run around the opposition. Given the powers granted to the EPA {I wonder if they are constitutional} our knowledgeable President, no doubt with the a...