Interior secretary: State fracking oversight just isn’t good enough for me

Erika Johnsen HotAir.com 6/26/2012

There are few things that can make me quite as outrageously perturbed as the unmitigated gall of a big-government bureaucrat presuming that he knows better than everybody else. I often make the case that when it comes to energy-and-environment issues specifically, big government is an especially poor steward in which to […]

Rio+20: ICLEI Members Admit ‘Bait and Switch’ to Boost Climate Agenda

Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) Press Release 6/18/2012

[Belo Horizonte, Brazil]– To advance public action on global warming, participants attending the ICLEI World Congress admitted today that they are deliberately employing new terminology to misdirect opponents and gain acceptance of their efforts to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases. By utilizing terms like “sustainability” […]

Shale study’s lead author faces ‘green’ backlash

College distances itself from fracking findings

Ben Wolfgang The Washington Times 5/28/2012

Faced with mounting criticism, the State University of New York at Buffalo is distancing itself from a Marcellus Shale gas-drilling study released earlier this month by the school’s own Shale Resources and Society Institute.

But the report’s lead author is defending the work […]

Fracking: A Tale of Two States

Sterling Burnett National Review Online 5/23/2012

A recent Associated Press article highlights the differences between New York and Pennsylvania concerning natural-gas production via hydraulic fracturing. New York has a moratorium on fracking, Pennsylvania allows it. The result, farmers and landowners in Pennsylvania are benefitting from fracking, while farmers and landowners just across the border look […]

‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock: I was ‘alarmist’ about climate change

Ian Johnston MSNBC 4/23/2012

James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too.

Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in […]

Obama’s EPA Stonewalls on Keystone

Ken Blackwell Breitbart.com Big Government 4/19/2012

…EPA overreach was a major factor in why no decision on the Keystone XL pipeline will be made until after the 2012 elections. If approved, the Pipeline would create tens of thousands of jobs while providing Americans access to as much of 800,000 barrels of Canadian oil for U.S. […]

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