SOCIALISM DOES NOT PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2020 (Mar. 20, 2020) — We are starting to see significant pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions as a result of the economic slowdown caused by the world’s response to the COVID-19 virus. For example, Carbon Brief reported that GHG emissions […]
850-FOOT-TALL TURBINES, 3.5 TIMES DC COVERED WITH SOLAR PANELS, MINING, CHILD LABOR, PRICEY POWER by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Mar. 4, 2020) — Largely with party-line, urban-vs-rural votes, Virginia’s legislature is poised to enact a Clean Economy Act that would eliminate coal-based electricity generation, prevent construction of new gas-fired power plants – and replace reliable, affordable […]
WHAT IS “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,” AND HOW FAR HAS IT GONE? by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2020 (Jan. 16, 2020) — For the past year I have been working to sound the alarm that the American beef industry is under massive assault from the radical environmental and animal rights movements that seek its ultimate destruction. […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2020 (Jan. 5, 2020) — Long before the “Shot Heard Round the World” at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775, the new world rose from about 2,000 inhabitants in 1620 to 250,000 by 1770 and 2.4 million by 1775. Most came from the […]
REPLACING FOSSIL FUELS WITH “RENEWABLE” ENERGY WOULD DEVASTATE THE ONLY PLANET WE’VE GOT by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Nov. 25, 2019) — Environmentalists and Green New Deal proponents like to say we must take care of the Earth, because “There is no Planet B.” Above all, they insist, we must eliminate fossil fuels, which they say […]
WILL ACTIVISTS FINALLY ADMIT THEIR SINS AND BREAK OUT OF THEIR PESTICIDE-BLAMING TIME LOOP? by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jun. 29, 2019) — Did you think Goundhog Day only comes in February? For anti-insecticide zealots and others in the environmentalist movement who’ve been preoccupied for years with bees and “colony collapse disorder,” it actually comes every […]
TRUDEAU’S ‘CARBON TAX’ BASED ON A FALSE PREMISE BASED ON FALSE SCIENCE by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, ©2019 (Jan. 14, 2019) — The standard method of environmentalists in setting forth a policy position is to begin with a false premise. From this, they then set out a completely unnecessary policy. It appears to […]
“A TINDER BOX” by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, ©2018 (Dec. 11, 2018) — In the push for strong action at this year’s United Nations climate change conference in Katowice, Poland, a common refrain is that rising carbon dioxide levels (CO2) will supposedly result in global warming that will increase the incidence of disastrous wildfires. […]
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES INCINERATE PEOPLE, WILDLIFE AND HABITATS. POLITICIANS BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE. by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Nov. 18, 2018) — Two more raging infernos in California have burned an area nearly ten times the size of Washington, DC. Wildlife and habitats have been torched. Over 8,000 homes and businesses, and nearly the entire town of Paradise, […]
IF THEY CAN’T STOP ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, THEY BLOCK PIPELINE TRANSPORT (AND GET UNEXPECTED HELP) by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Jul. 1, 2018) — You can understand their frustration, as the steady stream of radical environmentalist successes during the Obama years has been replaced with endless setbacks. Oil, gas and coal leasing, permits and production have risen […]
MISREPRESENTATIONS BY RADICAL GREENS PROMOTE MYTHS OF GE DANGERS AND ORGANIC BENEFITS by Paul Driessen and Vijay Jayaraj, ©2018 (May 18, 2018) — Across the globe, genetically engineered (GE) crops face opposition from environmental and organic food activists, who claim the crops harm the environment and endanger human health. How factual are their claims? The […]
CONCERNS OVER IMPACTS FROM ENERGY PROJECTS DISAPPEAR WHERE “GREEN” ENERGY IS INVOLVED by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Apr. 16, 2018) — It’s a good thing environmentalists have double standards – or they wouldn’t have any standards at all. Empire State legislators worry that anything above the current 0.0001% methane in Earth’s atmosphere will cause catastrophic climate […]
“ARROGANT FLOUTING OF FEDERAL LAW” by Jeff Crouere, ©2018 (Mar. 9, 2018) — At one time, California was the envy of America, attracting people from around the nation to move to a state offering opportunity and the chance to pursue ambitious dreams. With scenic beauty, the Pacific Ocean coastline, the major cities of San Diego, […]
FROM ENERGY AND SPENDING, TO CLIMATE AND DEBATE – SILENCING ALL DISSENTING VOICES IS ESSENTIAL by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Jan. 14, 2018) — You’ve got to admire the full frontal audacity of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, and their union and pressure group comrades in arms. Their hypocrisy, […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2017, President, NARLO (Nov. 19, 2017) — History has shown us that people don’t behave well when crammed together in big cities. Big cities have given us the “Blue” states. Big cities are hotbeds of socialism and government control. Big cities, with their voting majorities, control […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Aug. 13, 2017) — I keep running, but the dogs are gaining. I’ve been running for two days now and I’m hungry, tired and exhausted. I hear the hounds behind me but I must find the strength to stay ahead, always ahead. If […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Aug. 6, 2017) — The environmental obsession to wean the planet off of fossil fuels has blown up into an insanity all its own. Next to man-caused global warming (climate change) the deadly game that governments have played to convince people to disconnect […]
CONSULT WITH ALL AFFECTED PARTIES, TO ENSURE INFORMED ENDANGERED SPECIES AND PESTICIDE POLICIES by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (May 27, 2017) — One of my recent articles predicted that the Fish & Wildlife Service’s endangered species designation for the rusty patched bumblebee would lead to its being used to delay or block construction projects and pesticide […]
TOO MANY OIL, GAS, COAL, RARE EARTH AND OTHER VITAL RESOURCES ARE STILL OFF-LIMITS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (May 14, 2017) — President Trump has directed Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to review recent land withdrawals under the 1906 Antiquities Act, to determine whether some should be reversed or reduced in size. The review […]
A WEEK DEDICATED TO TOPICS THAT UNDERSCORE IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTALISTS DON’T WANT TO DISCUSS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Apr. 23, 2017) — April 22 was Earth Day, the March for Science and Lenin’s birthday (which many say is appropriate, since environmentalism is now green on the outside and red, anti-free enterprise on the inside). April 29 […]