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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Mindless “Green” Indoctrination of Children May 28, 2013
Our schools need to end the indoctrination and ensure that students are presented with and taught to ponder and debate all sides of important and complex questions
A Bee in Their Bonnet May 19, 2013
Right now, no one knows why bees aren’t thriving
Opposed to Drilling, Fracking, Keystone…and Exports April 29, 2013
Evidence and reality simply are not cooperating with IPCC and Mann-made climate models
EPA’s Tier 3 Tyranny April 16, 2013
Current improvements are enough for now. We have other crucial health, environmental, employment and economic problems to solve
Cut Fingers, Cancer, Bats and Birds April 6, 2013
White nose syndrome, wildlife, Bureacrats, wind turbine
Eco-Imperialism Joins Vulture Environmentalism March 25, 2013
A dangerous alliance
Our real manmade climate crisis March 5, 2013
The crisis is due not to climate change, but to actions taken in the name of preventing change
Carbon tax hallucinations February 17, 2013
We need to stop basing laws and policies on hallucinations – and start basing them on reality
Real sustainability versus activist sustainability February 2, 2013
Activist sustainability concepts don’t meet environmental, humanitarian or sustainability tests
Desperately trying to derail Canadian oil sands January 27, 2013
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, Keystone XL pipeline
Trampling on People, Environment and Ethics January 13, 2013
Real policy integrity, ethical culture and environmental protection acknowledge these realities – and change opinions and policies to reflect reality.
The political superstorm that devastated New York December 29, 2012
How nice it must be to have convenient scapegoats like “dangerous manmade global warming” and insurance companies blamed for storms, droughts, crop failures, disease and destruction
The new robber barons December 22, 2012
The Obama Gang is stealing our taxes, energy resources, revenues, jobs and economy
Stop subsidizing the slaughter! December 17, 2012
Allowing current practices to continue – or worse, permitting Big Wind to expand to generate 25% of US electricity – would be a catastrophe of monumental proportions
Obama’s Walt Disney energy policies December 10, 2012
Wishes upon stars won’t make energy dreams come true – but will bring nightmares
Facing a triple threat: Doha, EPA and Congress December 3, 2012
They are putting our energy, economy, jobs, living standards, health and welfare at grave risk
Fractured fairy tales November 2, 2012
Greens hate natural gas and fracking, but costly, parasitic wind energy can’t live without it
Perverse environmentalist oil sands ethics October 24, 2012
Opposition to the Canadian oil sands and Keystone Pipeline reflects debased moral code
Winners and losers energy policies October 18, 2012
We can and must rejuvenate our economy by developing America’s resource bounties
Climate Alarmism: Our sanity and wallets need a break September 17, 2012
Billions of taxpayer dollars are disrupting our politics, science, energy policies and economy
Government of, by and for the EPA September 11, 2012
EPA advances anti-energy agenda, with little regard for Americans' health or welfare
Western wildfires—horrific, destructive…and unnecessary July 24, 2012
New fire-fighting technology could help put them out. Why isn't it being used?
Caught in a green crossfire July 13, 2012
President Obama’s war on fossil fuels is hurting American workers, families, hopes and dreams
Dodging another UN bullet June 26, 2012
‘The Future We Want’ offered sustained power and money grabs in name of sustainability
Rio+20 is greatest threat to biodiversity June 20, 2012
99% of species and humans are ill served by the 0.1% UN and environmentalist elites
“Sustainable justice” = redistribution of scarcity June 19, 2012
The UN Rio+20 agenda means less freedom, happiness, true justice and human rights progress
America’s actual health and welfare crisis May 30, 2012
EPA rules threaten our energy, economy, health, welfare, justice, and civil rights progress
Rare corporate courage and common sense May 21, 2012
Wal-Mart stands up to activist intimidation, ensuring affordable, wholesome food for customers
Time to terminate Big Wind subsidies May 9, 2012
Protect environmental values, endangered species, jobs and human welfare
The folly of E15 anti-hydrocarbon policies April 24, 2012
EPA’s E-15 ethanol plan is bad for our pocketbooks, environment and energy policy