by Mark Steyn SteynOnline Julie Burchill, my old boss at The Modern Review many years ago, has a bracing column in this week's Speccie on the difference between the left she grew up with and the left today: While working-class left-wing political activism was always about fighting the powerful, treating people how you would wish [...]
by Amy Oliver Cooke Executive Vice President, Independence Institute and Senior Media Fellow, E&E Legal Published in The Tribune “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun,” wrote environmental doomsday prophet Dr. Paul Ehrlich in 1975. That’s a cruel statement directed at people who simply want [...]
by Chris Horner E&E Legal Senior Fellow Guest Blogger, Watts Up With That In the early 2000’s, the public was introduced to Enron “Shredding Parties,” where documents were destroyed to avoid possible embarrassment or legal consequences. These bashes represented the height of corporate decadence, an open flouting of the law. It came from a rotten [...]
by Tom Tanton E&E Legal Director, Science & Technology Assessment Opinion, Fresno Bee President Obama's visit to Fresno will hopefully bring some much-needed clarification as to how the federal government plans to help California battle the devastating drought in the near-term. Unfortunately, the administration's continued support of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) works counter to [...]
by Drew Johnson Senior Fellow, Taxpayers Protection Alliance Detroit Free Press While running for reelection in 2012, President Barack Obama repeatedly claimed that he would pursue an “all of the above” energy policy. But after winning a second term, his administration seems to have decided that “all of the above” doesn’t include oil, natural gas or [...]
by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research Heartlander Magazine The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency routinely collaborates with environmental activist groups to develop stringent regulatory policies and strategies, according to emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The emails confirm longstanding suspicions that EPA pursues hidden agendas on behalf of environmental [...]
by Alyssa Carducci Heartlander Magazine The State of Nebraska has filed a suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for overreaching restrictions on carbon emissions from coal-power plants. Bankrupting Coal Power Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning filed the suit January 15 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. Bruning and Nebraska state [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Now that the State Department has once again found that the Keystone XL pipeline will have little environmental impact, environmentalists are saying the government’s report is plagued by conflicts of interest with the oil and gas industry. But the real conflict of interest lies between activists and federal officials who [...]
by Bill Wilson Board Member, Americans for Limited Government Foxnews.com In January 2011 President Obama – stung by an electoral rebuke that cost his party control of the House of Representatives – issued an executive order attempting to reassure the public regarding his rapidly expanding regulatory state. Obama’s order instructed federal agencies to “identify and [...]
by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online For the fifth time in as many years, the State Department has found that the Keystone XL pipeline would not have a significant impact on the environment or worsen carbon emissions, according to a new report released Friday. That’s further evidence that the environmental lobby’s vociferous moaning about [...]
