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 […]
EVENT MUST RE-FOCUS ON KNOWN PROBLEMS by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC (Apr. 21, 2017) — All sensible people are environmentalists. We want to enjoy clean air, land, and water and we like to think that future generations will live in an even better environment. These were the original objectives of Earth Day and I […]
ANTI-FOSSIL FUEL SCC RELIES ON GARBAGE MODELS, IGNORES CARBON BENEFITS AND HURTS THE POOR by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek (Mar. 18, 2017) — “If you could pick just one thing to reduce poverty, by far you would pick energy,” Bill Gates has said. “Access to energy is absolutely fundamental in the struggle against poverty,” […]
COLLUSIVE LAWSUITS HELPED CONTROL MORE US LANDS. CONGRESS MUST REPEAL AND REPLACE THE ESA by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Jan. 22, 2017) — President Obama’s parting edicts betrayed Israel and commuted prison sentences for terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera and traitor Bradley/Chelsea Manning. Another abused the Antiquities Act yet again, by banning economic use on an additional […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Dec. 18, 2016) — To millions of Americans, the environmental movement has become a cult-like obsession that has consumed the collective mindset with emotional hogwash, propaganda, outright lies and irrational guilt. Some have labeled this cult “The Green Plague.” (The “Plague“) The “Plague” […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Nov. 27, 2016) — Dawn was breaking over the Circle P in Western Wyoming. The sun had just barely broken above the east horizon and the growing light cast an eerie pinkish glow on the Grand Tetons. A few puffy clouds lingered at the top of […]