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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Refocusing a Chicago water summit May 7, 2017
Proposed EPA budget cuts have activists in dither over wrong issues and imaginary problems
Ignorance, intolerance, violence May 1, 2017
Using junk science marches, ignorant professors, resistance and violence to drive public policy
Green Energy Poverty Week April 24, 2017
A week dedicated to topics that underscore impacts environmentalists don't want to discuss
Watch Video and Sign the Petition to President Trump: Get the U.S. Out of the Paris Climate Treaty April 18, 2017
Paris Climate Treaty
Real science must guide policy April 16, 2017
Climate alarmists use faulty science and bald assertions to demand end to fossil fuels
Off to a bumbling start at Interior April 9, 2017
If this is the kind of housecleaning and swamp draining we're going to get, we're in real trouble
Pretend conservatives for not so clean energy April 2, 2017
Far-left 'charitable' foundations give millions to 'conservative' groups to drive climate agenda
The silver-tongued liars’ playbook March 23, 2017
Coal ash scare stories are the latest tactic in their long war on coal-fueled electricity generation
The social cost of carbon regulations March 19, 2017
Anti-fossil fuel SCC relies on garbage models, ignores carbon benefits and hurts the poor
Financial Stability Board climate deceit March 17, 2017
FSB, Climate Cabal expand power and wealth, by targeting financial and insurance industries
Those “devastating” EPA reductions March 12, 2017
Budget and personnel cuts reflect environmental progress and essential regulatory reforms
Diogenes searching for honest policies March 6, 2017
Renewable energy is defective solution in search of a problem, money and power
GIGO-based energy and climate policies February 27, 2017
It’s like formulating public safety policies using models based on dinosaur DNA from amber
The hidden agendas of sustainability illusions February 6, 2017
Absurd, impractical sustainability precepts are actually a prescription for government control
Conservation—not more control January 22, 2017
Collusive lawsuits helped control more US lands. Congress must repeal and replace the ESA
Safe and healthy (not pristine) air January 16, 2017
Federal air quality rules must be based on science – not used to stifle energy and industry
Reality-based climate forecasting January 8, 2017
Continuing to focus on carbon dioxide as the driving force will just bring more bogus predictions
Another good target for EPA reform December 22, 2016
Europe gives Trump Administration excellent tutorials on how not to regulate pesticides
Environmentalist insurance policies December 18, 2016
Intellectual ammo for holiday party responses to claims that you need meteorite insurance
Rolling back environmental progress? December 4, 2016
Having achieved major goals, US should refocus EPA and other environmental agencies
Five stages of climate grief November 27, 2016
President Trump could help--and force climate alarmists to answer questions they've ignored
Pipeline anarchy November 20, 2016
Trump win fuels more rampant theft and destruction--and North Dakota citizens pay the price
Now comes the hard, fun and vital part November 13, 2016
"Making America great again" requires deep-sixing punitive energy and environmental rules
Roundup the corrupt fear mongers November 6, 2016
Deceit and collusion drive campaigns to ban a vital, popular, safe, affordable herbicide
Billionaire crony corporatist schemes October 30, 2016
Financing "green" companies and pressure groups, to get richer off taxpayers and consumers
The chemicals anxiety machine October 23, 2016
Candidates, Civil Rights Commission and greens use phony health threats to scare voters
Stormy climate deception October 16, 2016
Continued hype and deceit drive climate, energy agenda--clobbering poor families
Blood cell phones and Teslas October 9, 2016
Too many "green" policies bleed red, hurting the environment and killing people
Green pixie dust energy policies October 1, 2016
Democrats fight climate change with renewable pixie dust, while rest of world burns fossil fuels
Who is guarding the (dictatorial) guards? September 26, 2016
Regulators mete out fines and stymie growth, but are rarely punished for their own misconduct