By Peter Murphy ~ “Big Business” has been portrayed in history as intimidating and domineering in society over small business competitors, workers and politicians. In some ways that remains true. However, the larger truth is that big business is a paper tiger, easily intimidated. No segment of society knows this better than the Green climate […]
May 2, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Climate alarmists often accuse skeptics, like myself and independent groups like CFACT, of being in the pay of Big Oil. This is completely false — we do not receive even a dime from them. It is part of the green fairy tale that skepticism only exists because the oil companies […]
April 20, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
From the team at CFACT ~ Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) use greenwashing to hawk products they claim to be environmentally friendly to gain market advantages. Sales representatives typically work on commissions. Just respond to telephone solicitations, buy in to advertising promotions or sign up at their event tables and right away — for a bargain […]
April 15, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
From the team at CFACT ~ Have you been cajoled into doing things that show you are in compliance with the Green agenda, yet do no actual good? The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) defends the environment and human welfare through facts, news, and analysis. Read more excellent articles at CFACT http://www.cfact.org/
March 4, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By Paul Driessen ~ Special interest environmental groups got stung recently by an 8-0 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that held private landowners cannot be compelled to forego future economic uses of their property and at their own expense convert their land into suitable habitat for an endangered frog. Now radical greens are eyeing even bigger […]
October 15, 2018 by PA Pundits - International
By Paul Driessen ~ A recent live-streamed Heritage Foundation program in Washington, DC presented information that raises an intriguing question: Could Bloom Energy be the Theranos of fuel cells? Theranos said its revolutionary technology could diagnose disorders and diseases using mere drops of patients’ blood. The claims had no basis in fact, and the company […]
July 2, 2018 by PA Pundits - International
By Paul Driessen ~ You can understand their frustration, as the steady stream of radical environmentalist successes during the Obama years has been replaced with endless setbacks. Oil, gas and coal leasing, permits and production have risen significantly. Big Green just lost its first Big Cities v. Big Oil climate change shakedown lawsuit. President Trump […]
May 20, 2018 by PA Pundits - International
Misrepresentations by radical greens promote myths of GE dangers and organic benefits By Paul Driessen ~ Across the globe, genetically engineered (GE) crops face opposition from environmental and organic food activists, who claim the crops harm the environment and endanger human health. How factual are their claims? The evidence strongly supports GE over organic crops. […]
January 1, 2018 by PA Pundits - International
Tax bill provision opens ANWR, to bring more oil online and keep Alaska pipeline operating By Paul Driessen ~ Way back in 1980, Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, establishing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and making numerous other land use decisions for our 49th state. Section 1002 of the act postponed a decision […]
December 11, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
Radical environmentalists prefer dangerous, inhumane, ecologically destructive alternatives By Paul Driessen ~ The Nebraska Public Service Commission (NPSC) recently voted to approve the state’s segment of the 1,200-mile Keystone XL Pipeline. While that would appear to allow construction to move forward, more obstacles loom before KXL can finally bring North Dakota and Canadian crude oil to Texas refineries. […]
November 18, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
Government agencies collude with activists and lawyers against chemicals and companies By Paul Driessen ~ It’s bad enough when tax-exempt foundations and activist groups use junk science and scare campaigns to promote excessive regulations and set the stage for class action lawsuits against perfectly good products. It’s intolerable when our tax dollars directly finance U.S. […]
August 29, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Rob Gordon ~ Leave it to the federal government to make a costly mistake, obscure it for decades at taxpayer expense, and then try to claim it was a success. In 2016, Johnston’s frankenia—a wiry, blue-green, roughly 1 to 2-foot-tall shrub with tiny oblong leaves—was taken off the endangered species list. The Fish and […]
August 28, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
Anti-mining groups “protect” local tribe against phony risks by trampling on Guatemalan workers By Paul Driessen ~ Not long ago, supposed “environmental justice” concerns at least involved risks to mine workers and their families. The risks may have been inflated, or ignored for decades, but they were a major focus. In one case, a state-run mine […]
July 15, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Debbie Bacigalupi ~ It doesn’t matter where one travels in the world to hear the solution for global warming: MOVE TO A BIG, GREEN CITY and CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOR. Eager eco-“experts” march to the same dangerous drummer. Freedom is dangerous. Individuals and societies must conform as required. We all must happily move to a […]
April 3, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
Far-left ‘charitable’ foundations give millions to ‘conservative’ groups to drive climate agenda By Paul Driessen ~ More and more conservatives are proclaiming the virtues of clean energy. At least that’s what some groups want you to believe. In reality, far-left “charitable” foundations have given pretend conservatives millions of dollars to advance a climate chaos, renewable […]
March 9, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Andrew Bolt ~ Green energy and green bans on gas exploration are driving up power prices and killing business. Ten per cent of power generation has already been shut down and the Australian Energy Council now warns we risk “deindustrialising” Australia. But wasn’t this always the aim of green zealots?: A decade of political […]
October 30, 2016 by PA Pundits - International
Financing “green” companies and pressure groups, to get richer off taxpayers and consumers By Paul Driessen ~ Shady cash from Vladimir Putin’s Russian energy oligarchs and other rich donors is being laundered through Bermuda-based lawyers and middlemen to “green” pressure groups, lobbyists and spinmeisters – to promote “green energy” schemes that bring billions of dollars […]
September 22, 2016 by PA Pundits - International
By Julia A Seymour ~ Energy & Environmental Legal Institute released new documents showing what it called “collusion” between the Environmental Protection Agency, environmentalist groups and even reporters. FOIA-ed emails obtained by E&E Legal, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Jeb Harmon showed that the EPA’s Michael Goo used a private email account to correspond with individuals about […]
August 21, 2016 by PA Pundits - International
Colorado extremists want to ban fracking, oil, gas, jobs, revenues, property rights By Paul Driessen ~ Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has given the USA and world centuries of new petroleum supplies, lowered energy prices for manufacturers, motorists and consumers, and altered geopolitics for the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela. New natural gas supplies […]
May 2, 2016 by PA Pundits - International
InsideClimate News excels at propagating environmentalist and Obama thinking and policies By Paul Driessen ~ Have you ever wondered how the LA Times, Associated Press, Weather Channel and your local media always seem to present similar one-sided stories on climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy and other environmental issues? How their assertions become “common knowledge,” […]
January 10, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
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