December 16, 2014
Still more politicized pseudo-science?
The neonics and honeybees saga takes interesting, potentially fraudulent turn
 Paul Driessen
Widening efforts to blame neonicotinoid pesticides for honeybee “colony collapse disorder” and other “beepocalypse” problems have taken a fascinating turn. Click here to continue.
December 8, 2014
"Over the past seven years, the PTC has cost taxpayers $7.3 billion."
From Tim Philips, president of Americans for Prosperity, in the December 2 Wall Street Journal
Tell Congress, “End wind energy tax giveaways now”
Lame Duck Congress could vote this week on more tax dollars for Big Wind
Paul Driessen
There is a good chance that the Lame Duck Congress could vote as early as Wednesday, December 4, on extending huge taxpayer subsidies for Big Wind energy companies for another three, five or more years. Click here to continue.
November 29, 2014
The Gruberization of environmental policies
Accumulation of fraudulent EPA regulations impacts energy, economy, jobs, families and health
Paul Driessen
Call it the Gruberization of America’s energy and environmental policies.
Former White House medical consultant Jonathan Gruber pocketed millions of taxpayer dollars before infamously explaining how ObamaCare was enacted. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” he said. “It was really, really critical to getting the bill passed.” At least one key provision was a “very clever basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.” Click here to continue.
November 25, 2014
Needed: Accurate climate forecasts
Focusing on carbon dioxide (because that’s where the money is) threatens forecasts, and lives
Paul Driessen and David R. Legates
President Obama’s agreement with China is about as credible as his “affordable care” pronouncements. Click here to continue.
November 18, 2014
EPA’s next regulatory tsunami
Trillions of dollars in ozone compliance and economic stagnation costs, for fabricated benefits
Paul Driessen
Looming Environmental Protection Agency ozone regulations personify the Obama administration’s secrecy, collusion, fraud, and disdain for concerns about the effects that its tsunami of regulations is having on the livelihoods, living standards, health and welfare of millions of American families. Click here to continue.
November 3, 2014
The Obama war on pipelines
Expedite wind and solar – but block coal, oil, gas, pipelines, jobs and economic recovery
Paul Driessen
“This is not the same industry we had 15 years ago,” Natural Gas Supply Association VP Jennifer Fordham said recently. That’s an understatement. The oil, petrochemical and manufacturing industries are also far different from those of 15 years ago. Together, they’ve created hundreds of thousands of new jobs and generated countless billions of dollars in economic activity. No thanks to the Obama Administration. Click here to continue.
October 27, 2014
It’s rarely about the environment anymore
It’s about slashing our energy use, free enterprise, job creation, living standards and freedoms
Paul Driessen
Back in 1970, when I got involved in the first Earth Day and nascent environmental movement, we had real pollution problems. But over time, new laws, regulations, attitudes and technologies cleaned up our air, water and sloppy industry practices. By contrast, today’s battles are rarely about the environment. Click here to continue.
September 27, 2014
Breaking Russia’s energy stranglehold
Europe cannot afford to have its foreign and domestic policies dictated by Putin’s blackmail
Paul Driessen
European Union nations want to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine and providing the missiles that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. However, they are worried about biting the hand that feeds them – with the natural gas that fuels much of its economy.
Russia is the world’s second-biggest natural gas producer and third-biggest oil producer, so it can inflict tremendous pressure and damage on its neighbors without firing a shot. Click here to continue.
September 27, 2014
Protect the poor – from climate change policies
Cornwall Alliance works to ensure reliable, affordable energy for poor families worldwide
Paul Driessen
In a more rational, moral, compassionate, scientifically literate world, this Cornwall declaration would not be needed. It assesses the “far-reaching, costly policies” that the world’s governments are adopting, supposedly to prevent global warming and climate change. It calls on governments to focus instead on protecting the poor, who desperately need the affordable energy that those policies circumscribe. Click here to continue.
September 22, 2014
What really drives anti-fracking zealots?
They want to end fossil fuels and capitalism, control our lives and impose eco-utopia
Paul Driessen
Recent news stories underscore the tremendous benefits brought by America’s fracking revolution.
* The shale oil production boom could boost US crude production to 9.5 million barrels of oil per day (bopd) next year, reducing America’s crude oil imports to 21% of domestic demand, the lowest level since 1968. Output from fracked wells represents 43% of all US oil production and 67% of natural gas production; “frack oil” could hit 10 million bopd by 2016, the Energy Information Administration says. Click here to continue.
September 3, 2014
Obama AWOL again – on energy terrorism
The president fails to prepare for anything, except vacation, golf and climate change
Paul Driessen
Four news stories in four days sum up the Obama presidency and help explain why the world and U.S. economy are in such a mess. President Obama just returned from his two-week beach and golf vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. It took him a month from the time special forces located journalist James Foley to approve a rescue mission – by which time Foley had been moved (and was subsequently beheaded). Click here to continue.
August 20, 2014
Trampling on Coal Country families
Obama and EPA are determined to destroy US coal, people’s lives and welfare be damned
Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth’s perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as real world crises erupt, President Obama is using executive fiats and regulations to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda, slash America’s fossil fuel use, bankrupt coal and utility companies, make electricity prices skyrocket, and “fundamentally transform” our economic, social, legal and constitutional system. Click here to continue.
Paul Driessen
August 13, 2014
The US-Africa Leaders Summit is ending, with many interesting observations about the continent’s future – the most memorable of which might be Secretary of State John Kerry’s suggestion that African nations should practice “climate-smart” agriculture … to accompany the Obama Administration’s determination that they also practice “climate-smart” electricity generation. In the real world, this would translate into “Develop and modernize, but not too much and only in line with our Deep Ecology policies” … “generate electricity, but only what you can get from wind and solar power” … and “Increase food production, but only to the extent that you can do so without relying on biotechnology, chemical fertilizers or tractors.”
Africans would be crazy to buy into this scheme, even to secure foreign aid money being dangled in front of them. Indeed, their guiding principle should be this: Africans should not do what the United States is doing now that it is rich. It should do what the United States did to become rich.
Thank you for posting my article, quoting from it, and forwarding it to your friends and colleagues.
Paul
“Climate-smart” policies for Africa are stupid, and immoral
Obama-Kerry policies would perpetuate energy poverty, malnutrition, disease and death
Paul Driessen
August 7, 2014
We can scarcely imagine the countless ways the ultra-rich Big Green / Big Government movement acts in consort to control our lives – at the behest of the 0.01% of uber-elites ... and at the expense of the 99% of American taxpayers, consumers, workers and citizens. Even worse, just when we think we are beginning to grasp the enormity of the problem, another report emerges to demonstrate that we still don’t know the half of it, or even the fiftieth. In this article, Washington Examiner columnist and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise executive vice president Ron Arnold exposes still more of the dirty little secrets these would-be global dictators strive so mightily to keep hidden.
Thank you for posting Ron’s column, quoting from it, and forwarding it to your friends and colleagues – to help people better understand what we are up against.
Best regards,
Paul Driessen
The hidden “persuaders” of the environmentalist elite
These left-wing billionaires direct and control the environmentalist movement – and your lives
Ron Arnold, Washington Examiner columnist
America’s Big Green environmental agenda is set by elite foundations that decide which activists get the money. They form “affinity groups” to collude with President Obama’s bureaucracy, which funnels tax dollars to Democratic advocates to enforce that agenda. Click here to continue.
July 28, 2014
Who’s really waging the ‘war on science’?
When it comes to attacking climate scientists, the alarmist Left has the market cornered
Left-leaning environmentalists, media and academics have long railed against the alleged conservative “war on science.” They augment this vitriol with substantial money, books, documentaries and conference sessions devoted to “protecting” global warming alarmists from supposed “harassment” by climate chaos skeptics, whom they accuse of wanting to conduct “fishing expeditions” of alarmist emails and “rifle” their file cabinets in search of juicy material (which might expose collusion or manipulated science). Click here to continue.
Paul Driessen
July 21, 2014
Killing marine life with ethanol
Ethanol damages your cars, small engines, food budget – and kills Gulf of Mexico animals
Paul Driessen
Ethanol and other biofuel mandates and subsidies got started when politicians bought into claims that we are rapidly depleting our petroleum, and fossil-fuel-driven global warming is boiling the planet.
Hydraulic fracturing destroyed the depletion myth. It also reminds us that “peak oil” applies only if we wrongly assume that resource needs and technologies never change. Click here to continue.
July 16, 2014
Paul Driessen
Greenpeace showcases its anti-human side
Greenpeace activist confirms every negative story you’ve ever read about this activist group
I had a surreal experience last week, being interrogated by a Greenpeace activist, on topics ranging from climate change to funding, an anti-Greenpeace protest … and something he really did not want to discuss: the lethal impacts of his organization’s policies on billions of impoverished, malnourished and diseased people around the world. Click here to continue.
July 14, 2014
My talk in Las Vegas - Many people asked if I could send them a copy of the talk I gave in Las Vegas. (It was the last talk of the final session, Panel 21.) I am more than happy to do so. Click here to continue.
(Pictured: Paul Driessen, Danny Martinez, Roni Bell Sylvester, Lawrence Kogan)
July 2, 2014
Breaking EPA’s climate science secrecy barriers
FOIA request seeks hidden data and analyses that agency claims back up its climate rulings
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June 21, 2014
 Paul Driessen
Fixing our dictatorial EPA
EPA, White House and activists must no longer deceive America and rule by executive fiat
Amid a continuing economic and employment collapse, the White House and Environmental Protection Agency are determined to impose still more ruinous regulations. The latest onslaught once again targets carbon dioxide emissions. EPA rules now effectively prevent the construction of new coal-fired power plants and require the closure of hundreds of older facilities. Both President Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy either don’t care about the economic havoc these regulations will wreak … are somehow convinced that the illusory health and environmental benefits are real … or are simply determined to dragoon the United States into a low-hydrocarbon, renewable energy future, regardless of how little other countries do and despite the adverse impacts that their agenda will have on the health and well-being of American families.
My article discusses many aspects of this ideologically driven agenda – and offers suggestions on how legislators, states and citizens can fight back.
Thank you for posting it, quoting from it, and forwarding it to your friends and colleagues. Click here to continue.
My best regards,
Paul
Fixing our dictatorial EPA
June 16, 2014
Paul Driessen
Hollywood’s hydrocarbon hypocrisy
Anti-fracking fervor underscores dismissive attitudes toward working classes and poor families
Several Hollywood elites were recently caught red-handed on videotape, agreeing to take money from a Middle Eastern oil sheikh for another anti-fracking movie. Their actions were shameful, but they felt no shame – only anger at the folks who caught them in the act. Indeed, the ironies are matched only by their hypocrisy and disdainful disregard for the consequences of their anti-fracking fervor. Click here to continue.
June 13, 2014
EPA’s next wave of job-killing CO2 regulations
Unleashing EPA bureaucrats on American livelihoods, living standards and liberties
David Rothbard and Craig Rucker
My CFACT colleagues David Rothbard and Craig Rucker have penned a perceptive and hard-hitting commentary on the Obama Administration’s announcement that EPA is imposing draconian new rules on carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.
As they note, millions of Americans will be forced to endure a lower quality of life and will be unable to heat or cool their homes properly, pay their rent or mortgage, or save for college and retirement. They will suffer from greater stress, worse sleep deprivation, higher incidences of depression and alcohol, drug, spousal and child abuse, and more heart attacks and strokes. Even West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has said, “A lot of people on the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum are going to die.”
EPA has simply ignored all of this, and instead has launched an expensive, national, taxpayer-funded campaign that trumpets hypothetical, chimerical and computer-generated benefits that the onerous regulations will somehow, supposedly deliver to our already battered economy.
Thank you for posting their article, quoting from it, and forwarding it to your friends and colleagues.
Best regards,
Paul
May 13, 2014
Paul Driessen
Manmade climate disruption – the hype and reality
Distractions, agendas, false realities, and policies that bring much harm but few benefits
The White House has released its latest National Climate Assessment. An 829-page report and 127-page “summary” were quickly followed by press releases, television appearances, interviews and photo ops with tornado victims – all to underscore President Obama’s central claims: Click here to continue.
March 27, 2014
Paul Driessen
Should California dictate US energy policies?
Can the rest of America afford its Alice in Wonderland energy policies for? (Can California afford them?)
March 3, 2014
Paul Driessen
Will the Supreme Court permit EPA climate fraud?
If it does, the impacts on our lives, livelihoods, liberties and living standards will be enormous.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency. The case will determine how far EPA can extend its regulatory overreach, to control “climate changing” carbon dioxide from power plants and other facilities – by ignoring the Constitution’s “separation of powers” provisions, rewriting clear language in the Clean Air Act, and disregarding laws that require the agency to consider both the costs and benefits of its regulations and what it is regulating. Click here to continue.
February 10, 2014
Paul Driessen
The ignorance and hypocrisy behind oil export bans
Help consumers, security, environment by eliminating prohibition on exporting US oil and gas
US oil and gas production was already declining, when the 1973 Arab oil embargo sent oil and gasoline prices skyrocketing and created block-long lines at gas stations. Increased domestic production could have eased the supply and price crunch, but the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill had resulted in congressional leasing and drilling moratoriums on federal offshore and onshore lands. Click here to continue.
February 5, 2014
Paul Driessen
Build the Keystone pipeline, already!
KXL was AWOL from SOTU – along with real energy, job, economic and revenue solutions
President Obama frequently says he wants to turn the economy around, put America back to work, produce more energy, improve public safety, and open new markets to goods stamped “Made in the USA.” In his State of the Union address he said, if congressional inaction continues, “I will act on my own to slash bureaucracy and streamline the permitting process for key projects, so we can get more construction workers on the job as fast as possible.” Unfortunately, like Arafat, he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to do all these things. Click here to continue.
February 2, 2014
America in lockdown
“Dedicated public servants” lock up lands and resources, lock down job and economic recovery
Paul Driessen
December 30, 2013
Paul Driessen
Crooked labs, agencies and prosecutors - EPA Nifongs and Beales prosecute US hydrocarbons, jobs, living standards and health - Former Durham, NC district attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred for withholding evidence from the defense and lying to the court in the trumped-up Duke lacrosse team rape case. Ex-Boston crime lab technician Annie Dookhan was prosecuted for faking test results and contaminating drug samples, to get accused dealers convicted. Click here to continue.
November 26, 2013
A climate of fear, cash and correctitude
Trashing real science to protect grants, prestige, and desire to control energy, economy, lives
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November 18, 2013
Paul Driessen
Science and journalism take a vacation
Was the London Times snookered by Greenpeace activists – or willingly complicit?
A recent Times of London article claimed new “research” demonstrates that a “chemical onslaught is destroying Britain’s amphibians.” A “toxic cocktail,” it stated, is killing UK frogs, toads and newts. Manmade chemicals “can affect animals’ immune systems – leaving them vulnerable to attack by fungi, bacteria and other infections,” click here to continue.
November 1, 2013
Paul Driessen
Learning and succeeding “differently”
“Transforming Lives - Realizing Possibilities” motivates this school and its students
Having a child who struggles in school torments parents – whether it’s because of attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, an inability to comprehend “whole word” approaches in learning to read, or just a need to “learn differently” from peers. The experience is even harder on the child.
Some just struggle along, with limited help from teachers, school administrators and special programs. Others get little or no help, lag further behind, fall through the cracks, or just give up or drop out of school. For a lucky few, there may be a special place like the Oakwood School in Annandale, Virginia. Click here to continue.
October 28, 2013
Do the Math – Count the cash
Al Gore, Bill McKibben and the color of money: A true religious experience
 by Paul Driessen and Dennis Mitchell
Some years ago, a telegenic televangelist built quite an empire, before publicly falling from grace and adopting a less opulent life style. But back then he liked big homes and Lear jets with Rolls Royce engines and, even though Dennis’s lab primarily did environmental monitoring, his chief pilot came there because he needed demanding analyses on the methanol fuels he used for extra thrust. Click here to continue.
September 11, 2013
To bee or not to bee - Reports of honeybees rapidly disappearing are greatly exaggerated
Activist groups continue to promote scary stories that honeybees are rapidly disappearing, dying off at “mysteriously high rates,” potentially affecting one-third of our food crops and causing global food shortages. Time magazine says readers need to contemplate “a world without bees,” while other “mainstream media” articles have sported similar headlines.
The Pesticide Action Network and NRDC are leading campaigns that claim insecticides, especially neonicotinoids, are at least “one of the key factors,” if not the principle or sole reason for bee die-offs.
Thankfully, the facts tell a different story – two stories, actually. First, most bee populations and most managed hives are doing fine, despite periodic mass mortalities that date back over a thousand years. Second, where significant depopulations have occurred, many suspects have been identified, but none has yet been proven guilty, although researchers are closing in on several of them. Click here to continue.
Paul Driessen
September 2, 2013
Stop denying climate science and ACT! (before people realize it’s a scam)
Collapsing science, economies and international cooperation require that we refuse to act
Paul Driessen
August 17, 2013
Carbon dioxide: The “gas of life”
Tiny amounts of this miracle molecule make life on Earth possible
Too many environmentalists, politicians and even scientists continue to vilify human emissions of carbon dioxide, asserting that this gas is causing dangerous manmade global warming and climate change. These claims ignore the dominant roles of complex natural forces in causing planetary warming, cooling, storms, droughts and other climate events. They also ignore the lack of evidence to support climate cataclysm predictions.
At least equally important, criticism of carbon dioxide ignores the vital role this miracle molecule plays in making life on Earth possible. Click here to continue
Paul Driessen
July 29, 2013
Fracking brings employment and economic revival
But anti-energy activists promote falsehoods about this vital, safe job-creating technology - They inhabit a callous parallel universe and wage war on cheap energy, jobs and the poor
Paul Driessen
July 22, 2013
As people understandably become ever more skeptical about manmade global warming catastrophe claims … and congressional action on job-killing carbon dioxide control or cap-and-trade legislation remains extremely unlikely … President Obama and EPA have gone on the attack, promising punitive greenhouse gas regulations that will terminate countless jobs and put the government in charge of everything we make, ship, eat and do. To aid and promote this massive power grab, the climate alarm industry is pulling out all the stops – using our taxpayer dollars to advance this agenda.
In just one example out of hundreds, Dr. Katherine Hayhoe has issued a “report,” claiming that runaway global warming is going turn Delaware into another Georgia. One of her most breathtaking and scary forecasts claims that Delaware is going to get pounded by more than two full months of endless days above 95°F and a hundred-fold increase in days with temperatures at or above 100°F by 2100.
Fortunately, as climatologist David Legates and I point out in our article this week, this is utter nonsense.
Paul Driessen
Delaware’s “future weather”
We’re getting burned by phony science and authoritarian power grabs
Paul Driessen and David R. Legates
June 3, 2013
EPA climatism: Dictating our lives, living standards and life spans
Justifying life-altering policies through “dangerous manmade global warming” claims
Paul Driessen
May 29, 2013
Mindless “green” indoctrination of children
Fracking offers case study of propaganda by environmentalists, teachers and fellow students
Paul Driessen
May 20, 2013
A bee in their bonnet
Anti-pesticide activists falsely blame new pesticides for bee colony problems
Paul Driessen
May 1, 2013
Support drilling, fracking, Keystone … and exports
We don’t need to restrict oil or gas exports. We need to open more lands to leasing and drilling.
Paul Driessen
April 21, 2013
EPA’s Tier 3 tyranny
High cost, no benefit does nothing to forestall agency’s quest for ecological utopia
Paul Driessen
April 8, 2013
Cut fingers, cancer, bats and birds
Government bureaucrats delay life-saving road projects, but let wind turbines butcher bats
Paul Driessen and James H. Rust
March 25, 2013
The Obama administration in Washington and Cuomo administration in Albany epitomize the ways that environmental laws and regulations are being manipulated to impose anti-human, anti-science ideologies. Eco-imperialists employ environmental laws to deny people access to hydrocarbons and modern technology – harming the very things they claim to care about: human health and lives, wildlife and environmental quality. Vulture environmentalists hijack those laws to seize control over private property that they covet but don’t want to pay for.
President Obama’s appointees for EPA, Interior and Energy are leading the charge to stifle energy and economic development, jobs and prosperity that don’t conform to their hard-green agenda; Cuomo is doing likewise in New York; and the UN is driving the same ideologies on the world stage. The examples are becoming more common, and more outrageous. It’s time to rein in these abuses – and insist that environmental laws be applied to BENEFIT people and environmental quality, and safeguard against REAL pollution problems. Paul Driessen
Eco-imperialism joins vulture environmentalism
Obama appointees seek to impose ideological control over our energy, economy and property
Paul Driessen
March 15, 2013
Paul Driessen review of Greenie Lying Bastards
Radical environmentalists and their allies have launched an all-out attack on “climate deniers” – scientists and other experts who do not accept the Gore-Hansen-IPCC doctrine of “catastrophic manmade global warming and climate change.” The attack is a desperate, pathetic attempt to resurrect their quest for global governance, by scaring people into believing our planet and civilization are imperiled by carbon dioxide emissions.
Their latest offensive is a pitiful movie – produced by a former mouthpiece for eco-terrorists – that claims Big Oil is giving the “deniers” millions of dollars. Inconvenient Truth #1: The oil industry provides virtually NO money for climate chaos skeptics. Inconvenient Truth #2: It is the environmentalists themselves who are rolling in dough – over $19 BILLION from liberal US foundations alone over the past decade.
Paul Driessen
March 6, 2013
Our real manmade climate crisis - The crisis is due not to climate change, but to actions taken in the name of preventing change
Paul Driessen
February 18, 2013
Carbon tax hallucinations - Carbon taxes will do nothing for revenues or climate, but will hurt job and economic growth
Paul Driessen
January 31, 2013
Superstorm Sandy
A four part series by Paul Driessen and Patrick Moffitt
www.MasterResource.org
January 28, 2013
Desperately trying to derail Canadian oil sands
Radical activists launch more attacks on oil sands, Keystone pipeline, jobs and revenues
Paul Driessen
January 16, 2013
Trampling on people, environment, science and ethics - Environmental policies and practitioners often hurt people and values they supposedly protect
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