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• Meet the little nobody from Texas with big power at EPA - 14 Jun 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Big Green & Bureaucracy & Columns

  He dropped out of nowhere and landed with a crash in the director’s seat of the Office of Environmental Justice at the Environmental Protection Agency. Matthew S. Tejada, 33, Texas-born Latino, Ph.D. (History, Oxford University, 2006) and five years as a community organizer (like the young Barack Obama), was appointed director by former EPA administrator [...]

• Are backroom sue-and-settle deals actually sweetheart lawsuits? - 31 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Big Green & Columns & Regulations

  An important new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce entitled “Sue-and-Settle: Regulating Behind Closed Doors,” shines a light on the backroom manipulations now common between Big Green activists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — among others — to impose regulations unlikely to gain approval in Congress. The report found that between 2009 and [...]

• Bureaucratic miracle of cooperation saves sturgeon fishery - 24 May 2013
  posted in Big Green & Columns

  Good news is no news, so the cynics say, especially with news cycles hammering President Obama’s scandal headaches from migraines into political skull fractures. But this week something came out of the federal bureaucracy so filled with human decency that it deserves some kind of a headline — maybe not a page-spanning WAR-type headline, but [...]

• Big Green’s anti-fracking operatic chorus hits false notes - 10 May 2013
  posted in Columns & Energy & Environment

  Lobbying campaigns aren’t usually compared to classical music, but Mark Dowie, former editor of the left-wing Mother Jones magazine, once wrote of Big Green’s political battle strategy: “For considerable sums of money, public opinion can be molded, constituents mobilized, issues researched, and public officials button-holed, all in a symphonic arrangement.” If that’s their metaphor, then [...]

• Does Big Green care about people or nature? - 03 May 2013
  posted in Big Green & Coercion & Energy & Environment

  It’s nothing new to see Big Green figures deploring the fact that people exist. Back in 1974, the elite Club of Rome published “Mankind at the Turning Point” with its infamous motto, “The Earth has a cancer and the cancer is man.” Today it has become routine for some well-funded Big Green group to block [...]

• Congress working to strip presidential land grab power - 26 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Big Green & Columns

  If you think national monuments are statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, welcome to the crazy catalog of federal land grabbing tools. These “monuments” are actually large areas that are supposed to be small, and can be created out of thin air by the president with the stroke of a pen. This extraordinary power [...]

• Green-grabbing for carbon ‘offsets’ takes toll on Africans - 05 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Green & Columns

  On Feb. 28, 2010, troops acting on behalf of a British forestry company that fights global warming evicted residents in Uganda’s Mubende District. They did so to make way for a tree plantation that would absorb carbon dioxide so carbon credits could be sold to transnational polluters. Longtime villagers in thriving, permanent communities were beaten [...]

• Big Green versus human rights in the Indian Ocean - 15 Feb 2013
  posted in Big Green & Columns & Environment

  Diego Garcia is the largest island of a tropical atoll in the Chagos Archipelago of the Indian Ocean, named after a 1500s Spanish explorer. It is actually a loop of about 50 islands atop one peak in a vast submarine mountain range. But if it looks less like a tropical paradise than a massive U.S. [...]

• Federal court slaps down Big Green land grab - 08 Feb 2013
  posted in Uncategorized

  Three of the nation’s most destructive environmentalist groups sued the Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service in March 2011. Their goal was to force the agency to declare more than 187,000 square miles (approximately 120 million acres) along the north coast of Alaska as no-development “critical habitat” for the threatened polar bear. The [...]

• Big Green hits the big screen to stop America’s economy - 21 Jan 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Big Green & Columns

  Among the Heritage Foundation’s many chores is tracking the movement of foreign money into projects that could harm the American economy. By a quirk in the viewing habits of the conservative think tank’s staff, a tip to their investigative blog led to the discovery that Matt Damon’s anti-fracking, stop-drilling movie, “Promised Land,” was funded by [...]