And They Said There is No War on Coal!

This past Tuesday President Obama, again through regulation over legislation, unveiled new tighter rules for power plants that will include a push for more restrictive green building codes and costly restrictions on household appliances.

The economy of Ohio, the state that is America’s 4^th-largest user of coal, faces a grave threat from these proposed EPA regulations that would halt coal use in existing electric power plants and prevent the building of new coal-burning plants.

That’s a dangerous move with the economy still struggling to recover, especially in Ohio where an enormous share of our power – 78 percent – is generated with coal (nationwide, the share is 43 percent).

The rules will kill many of the 27,000 Ohio jobs dependent on the coal industry. Not to mention the devastating impact on jobs and the economy in other coal producing and coal dependent states. Business and residential utility customers will certainly face greater risk of electricity price spikes as we rely for power generation more on natural gas (with its historically volatile price) and less on coal (with its historically stable, lower prices).

While it is vital to the future of our country that we use our natural resources to diversify our energy portfolio, it is only prudent to allow the technology of these other sources to grow through free market investment by the private sector – not government mandates.

Advancing technology already allows utilities to burn coal cleaner than in the past. Soon, coal-fired power plants that emit virtually no carbon dioxide will be feasible. But with President Obama & his EPA continuing their War on Coal by trying to make air cleaner than God himself ever intended, that will never be allowed to happen.

For highlights of President Obama's new plan to cut carbon, click here.  For a PDF of the complete action plan (assault), click here.

UPDATE: Senators Portman and Ayotte Sink Law Of The Sea Treaty!

UPDATE Jul-16-12 2:55pm: From Senator Portman's website:

Senators Portman and Ayotte Sink Law Of The Sea Treaty

Two Senate Armed Services Committee Members Announce Opposition In Letter To Majority Leader Harry Reid, Saying "No International Organization Owns The Seas"

Please scroll down to the phone details for Portman. Take a moment to give him a call to thank him! He needs to know that Ohio Tea Party Patriots are watching closely.

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This from Marianne at the Mansfield Tea Party:

Senator Portman Yet to Sign the Letter Opposing the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)!

Two more Republican Senators have signed the letter opposing LOST bringing the total to 30 (four votes shy of being doomed), but Senator Portman is not one of them.

This treaty, as well as all others with the UN, must be defeated! The push for a one world globalist government must be stopped!

Take Action!

Contact Senator Portman and ask him why he refuses to sign the letter opposing LOST. And while you're at it, ask him why he also did not join the other 12 Senators in signing the letter asking governors to oppose the creation of state health care exchanges, which are a method of implementing Obamatax (Obamacare).

Email: http://portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form

Website: http://portman.senate.gov/public/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/robportman
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/robportman

Cleveland Office Ph#: (216)522-7095 Cincinnati Office Ph#: (513)684-3265
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Columbus Office Ph#: (614)469-6774 / Toll-Free: 1-800-205-6446 (OHIO)

Click Here to read why LOST is so dangerous to our sovereignty as a nation, and is just another step in achieving one world government.

You can also visit the Mansfield Tea Party website for a brief video explaining LOST.

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The Law of The Sea Treaty, Agenda 21, “green” jobs based on “man-made global warming” junk science and propaganda – these are all components in the Progressive agenda. The alternative media is doing the job that the MSM refuses to do – investigate and report the truth. Case in point: In the wake of the Freeh Report, detailing the pervasive corruption of Penn State to cover up serial sexual abuse of minors, OpenMarket.org revisits another recent Penn State scandal: Michael Mann’s collusion with Phil Jones on the Anthropogenic Global Warming deceptions. Fraud after fraud: the phony-baloney hockey stick graph, manipulation of data, the Climate-gate e-mails, and the dishonest effort to prevent dissenting views from being published in leading peer-reviewed journals. From the report:

Michael Mann, like Joe Paterno (and to a lesser degree, Jerry Sandusky) was a rock star in the context of Penn State University, bringing in millions in research funding. The same university president who resigned in the wake of the Sandusky scandal was also the president when Mann was being

whitewashed
investigated. We saw what the university administration was willing to do to cover up heinous crimes, and even let them continue, rather than expose them. Should we suppose, in light of what we now know, they would do any less to hide academic and scientific misconduct, with so much at stake?

It’s time for a fresh, truly independent investigation.

EPA funding Global Warming Programs in Foreign Countries

Thanks to Matthew Vermillion, Tea Party Patriots / Oklahoma State Coordinator, for the following info on how green energy goons at the EPA have sent over $27 Million to China, Thailand, Russia and other foreign countries to fund the liberal climate change agenda...

From Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) --

OUTRAGE OF THE YEAR: EPA SENDING TAX DOLLARS TO CHINA

July 7, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. - "Outrage of the Year" - that is what U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, is calling the distribution of tax dollars to China by the Obama Administration, through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to promote its climate change agenda. This information comes from a report released by Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

"As the White House calls Congressional leaders to a meeting to address our nation's debt and spending crisis, a report recently released by Congressman Fred Upton shows that the Obama EPA has been spending millions of taxpayer dollars in places like China - a country we already owe 1.2 trillion - to promote its liberal climate change agenda," Senator Inhofe said. "This is truly the outrage of the year.

"When I became Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2003, I made it a priority to provide greater oversight over how EPA spends our tax dollars. By 2004, EPA was required to implement a new competition policy for awarding funds and maintain a Grants Award Database so that taxpayers could view EPA's spending information online.

"Chairman Upton's report makes use of this database: it shows that EPA has awarded $718,000 to China's EPA to assist with control of air emissions, $700,000 to Thailand to collect methane from pig farms and $150,000 to Interpol for climate change programs. Since 2009, $27 million in taxpayer dollars has been sent to foreign countries."

For Chairman Upton's report on the out of control EPA, click here. To read more about how the EPA is using your money to teach pigs in Thailand how to pass gas in a jar and to fund more liberal climate programs in other countries, please click here.

Below is a YouTube Video of Senator Inhofe with more on the subject (Click for Video Transcript)

Tree Huggers vs Green Energy Goons

Already starting to get upset over the impact on the environment by illegal immigrants, the tree-huggers have now set their sights on the green energy goons.

From Public Employees for Enviromental Responsibility --

News Release

For Immediate Release:

June 25, 2010
Contact: Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337

HEAVY TOLL ON WILDLIFE PROMPTS LAWSUIT AGAINST CAPE WIND — Scientific Reviews of Impact on Endangered and Threatened Birds Skewed

Washington, DC — A coalition of groups filed suit today against federal agencies responsible for approving the proposed Cape Wind turbine farm on the grounds that the project will exact a terrible toll on federally protected migratory birds. The suit contends that required scientific studies were not done and that mandated protective measures were ignored in approving the controversial 130-turbine project slated for Nantucket Sound, a principal bird migration corridor off the Massachusetts coast.

The lawsuit filed today in federal district court in Washington, D.C. contends that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (until recently known as the Minerals Management Service) and Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treat Act, and National Environmental Policy Act in green-lighting the offshore wind farm. Plaintiffs include Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Cetacean Society International, Lower Laguna Madre Foundation, Californians for Renewable Energy (CARE), Three Bays Preservation and the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, as well as Cindy Lowry, Barbara Durkin, and Martha Powers. They are represented by the Washington, D.C. public interest law firm Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal.

Among the issues raised by the suit are the –

• Refusal to adopt recommended protective measures for the endangered Roseate Tern and the threatened Piping Plover, such as shutting turbines down during peak migration periods;

• Refusal to collect or submit acoustic, radar, infrared, or observational data on bird migration; and

• Failure to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement when new information came to light that a large aggregation of the highly imperiled North Atlantic Right Whale was present in the project area.

As a result of these failures, there is no reliable information on how many birds will perish in the huge turbine blades despite requirements that the best scientific information must be used. In addition, there are questions about whether the project will harm, harass, or kill critically endangered Right Whales.

“We are in this lawsuit because science was manipulated and suppressed for political reasons to which the Obama administration turned a blind eye,” stated PEER New England Director Kyla Bennett, a biologist and lawyer formerly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, noting the role of the (now former) Minerals Management Service and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. “Condemning rare birds to extinction is not required for offshore wind development.”

A January 2010 Interior Inspector General report found that the agencies reviewing the project’s environmental impact study were unnecessarily rushed in their reviews because of the applicant’s desire to complete the environmental review prior to the exodus of the Bush Administration. Moreover, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologists protested that the lack of data that made it impossible to adequately assess the project’s impacts on birds. The agency then reassigned the lead biologist.

“After years of personally witnessing the destruction of precious coastal habitat to wind industrial complexes, I am disturbed to see the federal agencies entrusted with the protection of our public waters act so recklessly in approving the Cape Wind project,” concluded Walt Kittelberger, Chairman of the Lower Laguna Madre Foundation.

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Read the lawsuit
View the Inspector General report on Cape Wind
See the lack of safeguards for scientific integrity inside the Interior Department

Gore Confronted on Climategate

Tea Party Patriots National Coordinator on Cavuto today

Mark Meckler (One of our National Coordinators for the Tea Party Patriots) will be on Neil Cavuto's TV show today (1pm - 2pm on FOX) discussing efforts to REPEAL AB32!

AB32 is the most far-reaching, intrusive piece of legislation that will absolutely DESTROY our already suffering economy once it is fully implemented, in addition to telling us where to live, what to eat and what to drive.

You can click here for the Face Book link of -- Stop AB 32! Defeat California's job-killing global warming law! Go there sign up and sign the petition.

If you haven't already make sure you go to the National Tea Party Patriots (www.teapartypatriots.org) site where you can sign up, create a profile and track all the calls, faxes, emails you have made. Plus you can join the TPP Google Groups, follow the TPP Blogs and a whole bunch of other fun and informative Tea Party Patriot stuff.

Don't miss the ONLY Ohio stop of the Tea Party Patriots "Farm Relief & Freedom Relay"

Tea Party Patriots

Farmers Relief and Freedom Relay

HAD ENOUGH OF CRUSHING ECO-REGULATION?

JOIN THE CROSS-COUNTRY RELAY TO SUPPORT THE EMBATTLED FARMERS AND COMMUNITIES OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY.

In actions that can only be described as lacking the most basic humanity, the U.S. Congress has turned off the water to Central Valley farmers, leaving their land dry, their fields fallow, and their dreams and ambitions scattered in the dust. Tens of thousands are unemployed and waiting in food lines because of the federal government, proving once again that the government is the problem, not the solution.

The Tea Party Patriots National Organization will hit 50 cities in just 14 days, holding rallies in each city.

THE MANSFIELD TEA PARTY will host the only stop in Ohio!

• When: Thursday Nov. 12, 2009
• Where: Berean Baptist Church
• Address: 2145 Middle-Bellville Rd Mansfield, Ohio 44903
• Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Please join us as we discuss the impacts of national (Cap and Trade), and local (Central Valley, California) environmental regulation and legislation.

With our Great Lakes under constant threat, we here in OH should share a special interest in this government take over of water. With the passing of Issue 2 in OH, we will now have the State government dictating to our livestock farmers, do we want to also let them take over our water supply?

We are asking for gift cards or cash donations to help the Central Valley families through the holiday season.

For more information go to http://mansfieldteaparty.com or www.Teapartypatriots.org, or call Marianne Gasiecki at (419) 961-4439

Click Here for more info on the plight of these poor farmers in The Valley Hope Forgot and what else you can do to help. You can RSVP on the Face Book Link here.

Here is a clip from The Hannity Show about the Central Valley Farmers and how it will affect us here at home....

A Cinematic Tea Party showing of "Not Evil Just Wrong"

From the Fremont Tea Party & American Patriots Against Government Excess...

Join us for a screening of the World Record Premiere of the film that Al Gore and Hollywood don't want you to see! The feature-length documentary that reveals the true cost of Global Warming hysteria.

Not Evil Just Wrong

• When: Sunday, October 18, 2009
• Time: 7:30 PM
• Where: Clyde High School Auditorium
• Address: 1015 Race Street Clyde OH 43410

For more information contact American Patriots Against Government Excess fremontteaparty@live.com or (419)332-3259

Advance Sales of Tickets $5.00 each. Seating limited to 800
Checks may be made payable to American PAGE

Join the Resistance against extreme environmentalism threatening the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people in the developed and developing world; this is the new road to poverty in America.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Clyde American History and Government Programs.

This will be a record-setting, international Cinematic Tea Party!