Conservative Principles Now

Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) stopped by The Heritage Foundation today to meet with bloggers at The Blogger’s Briefing. Before the meeting, he sat down with us to talk about the Supreme Court taking up the Chicago gun-ban case and a possible move by the Department of the Interior to give up to 17 areas of land in the West the restrictive “national monument designation”.

We also discussed his concerns about the EPA’s decision to regulate CO₂ emissions, which he characterized as “legislative function which is being usurped by the Executive Branch.” This is an issue about which Heritage is also concerned and on which we have written extensively.

The New York Times reports:

The Environmental Protection Agency has directed two of its lawyers to makes changes to a YouTube video they posted that is critical of the Obama administration’s climate change policy.

The EPA lawyers did take their video down. But not before others reposted it. Watch:Click here to view the embedded video.
You can read an op-ed the lawyers wrote for the Washington Post here. The Heritage Foundation does not endorse the couple’s call for carbon taxes, but their analysis of the futility of cap and trade is dead on.

Read about how the economists who first thought up cap and trade, do not believe it can control carbon, here.

Read about how carbon credits are an absolute fraud here, here, here, here, and here.