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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 [...]

• Don’t expect Big Green to save Falmouth - 19 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Green & Columns

  It slaughters eagles by the dozen, uses tons of fossil fuels every day, emits a greenhouse gas that’s like CO2 on steroids, can’t do the job it’s made for, costs taxpayers exorbitant fees, and makes the federal government look mentally ill for giving it outrageous subsidies. Oh, it also chops up the scenery with roads [...]

• Most Americans want Keystone, but does Obama care? - 12 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Big Green & Columns & Economy & Energy & Environment

  Pew Research Center’s new poll encouraged the gas price-conscious with its headline, “Keystone XL Pipeline Draws Broad Support,” and a score box showing 63 percent supporting and only 23 percent opposing the pipeline that would transport oil from Canada’s Alberta oil sands through the Plains states to refineries in Texas. However, the report quickly deflated [...]

• 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 [...]

• Energy gap leaves Britain freezing in the dark - 29 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & Energy

  As freezing temperatures, gales and blizzards of deadly “100-year, record-smashing” spring storms battered Europe this past month, the energy gap I’ve warned about for years hit the headlines: “It’s payback time for our insane energy policy,” snarled London’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Hypothermia has killed thousands, losses to the economy have soared into the billions, and [...]