“This may be less a rebranding than a full-scale retreat. The message that the climate is falling around mankind’s head … has failed to gain much political traction across the nation. In the process, the environmental movement has lost much of its luster and credibility.” National environmental groups, conceding that global warming has lost much of its heat as a
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With the increasingly likelihood that Obama’s health care law will be struck down in court or repealed next Congress, the administration has been working hard to cement another dubious legacy: the destruction of the coal industry. Obama’s war on coal is stirring a lot of anger in parts of the country like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio that have long
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Fish habitat or human habitat? The Department of Interior plans to destroy four dams on the Klamath River in Northern California so salmon can swim further than 180 miles up the river. But these dams provide water and flood protection to thousands of humans who also live along the river. Clean energy from these hydro dams supply electricity to 70,000
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I read William Golding’s superb book Lord of the Flies as a kid. It had a lasting impact. Especially about how the thin veneer of civilization, democracy, liberty and prevailing morality can be swept away by a brutish elitist power grab. It’s the same philosophy that resorts to threats to life and limb, property destruction, public smears, vilifying dissent, curtailing
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Remember the shell game?  The magician keeps up a steady stream of patter and diversions to make it difficult or even impossible to know where the pea is hiding. Our national energy policy today is much like the shell game. In his patter President Obama says we need an “all of the above” approach—we heard it in his State of
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Last week, as four major environmental groups in Washington were endorsing President Obama’s re-election, eco-bosses from the Natural Resources Defense Council flew a planeload of anti-industry activists halfway around the world to London. NRDC, the New York City-based green giant ($232.3 million assets in 2010), sent its minions abroad in hopes of destroying America’s best strategic mineral reserve, one of
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agancy is supposed to protect the environment, not crucify industries that it dislikes. But as the sensational video that recently surfaced shows, all too often the agency does the latter. If the problem began and ended with EPA Region 6 administrator Al Armendariz, then dismissing him would be enough to solve it. Unfortunately, Armendariz merely used more
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DENVER – The Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever air-quality standards for hydraulic fracturing went over like a lead balloon with Colorado energy advocates. Released Wednesday, the much-anticipated EPA regulations limit air pollution levels from natural-gas wells, which will require companies to install emissions-reducing equipment at the wellhead. The rules are scheduled to take effect January 2015. An initial draft of the
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If you wanted America to fail, how would you go about destroying it from within? This important and profound video explains the game plan one group is following to do just that. Spend a few minutes watching it and sharing it with friends. You’ll never look at the environmental movement the same again.

Residents of southern Utah still deeply resent former President Bill Clinton’s surprise and unwelcome designation of several national monuments there in September 1996, in a typically-slick attempt to secure the endorsement of Gang Green just in time for election day. Clinton’s “September surprise” was so hated by locals, and so angered Utah’s elected leaders, that he made the big announcement in Arizona, rather than Utah, assuming (correctly)
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