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Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. Paul Driessen is author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power, Black death

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Vilifying realist science--and scientists

Things are not going well for Climate Chaos, Inc. The Environmental Protection Agency is implementing its carbon dioxide regulations, and President Obama wants to make more Alaska oil and gas prospects off limits. But elsewhere the climate alarm industry is under siege--and rightfully so.
- Thursday, February 12, 2015

Divesting people of better living standards

"Social responsibility" activists want universities and pension funds to eliminate fossil fuel companies from their investment portfolios. They plan to spotlight their demands on "Global Divestment Day," February 13-14. Their agenda is misguided, immoral, lethal... even racist.
- Saturday, February 7, 2015

I Come To Bury Renewable Fuel Standards

Few congressional observers ever expected that U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) would cosponsor the “Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act,” to abolish the corn ethanol Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires that increasing volumes of this biofuel be blended into gasoline. Their collaboration again proves the adage that politics often makes strange bedfellows.
- Monday, February 2, 2015

Methane Deceptions

First they came for the coal mining and power plant industry, and most people did not speak out because they didn’t rely on coal, accepted Environmental Protection Agency justifications at face value, or thought EPA’s war on coal would benefit them.
- Monday, January 26, 2015

Merchants of Smear

Manmade climate disaster proponents know the Saul Alinksy community agitator playbook by heart. In a fight, almost anything goes. Never admit error; just change your terminology and attack again. Expand your base, by giving potential allies financial and political reasons to join your cause. Pick "enemy" targets, freeze them, personalize them, polarize them and vilify them.
- Saturday, January 17, 2015

Vetoing bipartisan energy, job and economic growth

New Republican members were still being sworn in and expressing their desire for bipartisan initiatives, when President Obama said he would veto the Keystone pipeline, ObamaCare fixes and other bills that run counter to his agenda. Washington’s new “common ground” will be a tricky, dangerous swamp.
- Saturday, January 10, 2015

Saving lives in the Middle East

Yazidi and other Christian communities trace their Syrian and Iraqi roots back nearly 2,000 years. Now they are being systematically exterminated. Not merely driven out. Exterminated – along with Jews, Baha’is and even Muslims insufficiently fundamentalist to suit Islamic State (ISIS) butchers.
- Saturday, January 3, 2015

Still More Politicized Pseudo-Science?

Widening efforts to blame neonicotinoid pesticides for honeybee “colony collapse disorder” and other “beepocalypse” problems have taken a fascinating turn.
- Sunday, December 14, 2014

Tell Congress, “End wind energy tax giveaways now”

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.
- Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Gruberization of environmental policies

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."
- Friday, November 28, 2014

Needed: Accurate climate forecasts

President Obama's agreement with China is about as credible as his "affordable care" pronouncements. Pleistocene glaciers repeatedly buried almost half of the Northern Hemisphere under a mile of ice. The Medieval Warm Period (~950-1250 AD) enriched agriculture and civilizations across Asia and Europe, while the Little Ice Age that followed (~1350-1850) brought widespread famines and disasters. The Dust Bowl upended lives and livelihoods for millions of Americans, while decades-long droughts vanquished once-thriving Anasazi and Mayan cultures, and flood and drought cycles repeatedly pounded African, Asian and Australian communities. Hurricanes and tornadoes have also battered states and countries throughout history, in numbers and intensities that have been impossible to pattern or predict.
- Monday, November 24, 2014

EPA’s next regulatory tsunami

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. Virtually every EPA announcement of new regulations asserts that they will improve human health. Draconian carbon dioxide standards, for example, won’t just prevent climate change, even if rapidly developing countries continue emitting vast volumes of this plant-fertilizing gas. The rules will somehow reduce the spread of ticks and Lyme disease, and protect “our most vulnerable citizens.” It’s hogwash.
- Sunday, November 16, 2014

Jobs, prosperity and security via oil exports

The midterm elections underscore how much Americans value energy, job and economic revival--and how much they want less Washington control of their lives, livelihoods, and dreams for their children and grandchildren. They also reflect the waning influence of radical Obama and Steyer climate change and anti-energy environmentalist elites. If ever there was a time to end the ban on oil exports, it's now.
- Monday, November 10, 2014

The Obama War on Pipelines

“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.
- Saturday, November 1, 2014

It's rarely about the environment anymore

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.
- Saturday, October 25, 2014

Curbing Obama Power Grabs

You’ve got to admire the sheer audacity: Democratic Senator Mark Begich telling Alaska voters that he stood up to President Obama and fought for oil drilling and jobs in his state. Maybe he had a few chats.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2014

We need some regulatory patriotism!

It's no mystery why American companies have stockpiled over $2 trillion of overseas earnings in foreign bank accounts. If they bring it to the United States, the IRS would grab 35% of it. That's the US corporate tax rate--the highest in the developed world, double the average in EU nations.
- Sunday, October 12, 2014


Breaking Russia's energy stranglehold

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.
- Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Protect the poor--from climate change policies

Cornwall Alliance
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.
- Friday, September 26, 2014

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