Paul Driessen, Author at CFACT

About Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues. PAUL DRIESSEN is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and other public policy institutes that promote environmental stewardship, enhanced human health and welfare, and personal liberties and civil rights. He covers climate change, energy and environmental, human rights, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, and renewable energy issues in articles and research papers, on radio programs and college campuses, and at professional and other conferences. His articles are posted regularly on Townhall.com, WattsUpWithThat.com and many other news and opinion websites and have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Investor's Business Daily, Risk Management, World Commerce Review, American Coal, other periodicals, and Greenhaven Press “Opposing Viewpoints” books used in high schools and colleges His book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death documents the harm that environmental policies often have on poor families, by restricting access to life-enhancing modern technologies. It has been published in the United States, Argentina (Spanish), Germany (German), Italy (Italy) and India (English). He also wrote Cracking Big Green: Saving the world from the Save-the-Earth money machine (with Ron Arnold), Miracle Molecule: Carbon dioxide, gas of life, and Climate Hype Exposed.

Trampling on coal country families

Coal mining families are the collateral damage from President Obama's war on coal.

By Paul Driessen |2014-08-19T15:33:03-04:00August 19th, 2014|Comments Off

“The crown has made it clear — The climate must be perfect all the year”

Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave sing about climate change

By Paul Driessen |2014-08-12T16:53:40-04:00August 11th, 2014|1 Comment

Holding Big Green accountable: Electrify Africa initiatives should finally trump environmentalist opposition to big power plants

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen says that Big Green groups, which demand accountability from corporations and denounce all projects requiring fossil fuel energy, refuse to be held accountable for the death and destruction that results from their vetoing of electricity, food (including Golden Rice), and life-saving technologies to the poor in India, African nations, and other nations lacking adequate infrastructure. Some countries are fighting back against these unwanted pests -- Canada took away Greenpeace's nonprofit status, while India has banned the use of foreign NGO money to support domestic campaigns.

By Paul Driessen |2014-08-11T09:01:00-04:00August 10th, 2014|1 Comment

Killing marine life with ethanol

Paul Driessen explains the damage done to the Gulf of Mexico from nitrogen fertilizer runoff that flows down the Mississippi and creates massive dead zones (no oxygen) that kill marine life. This is on top of other problems caused by adding ethanol to gasoline -- poor engine performance, higher food prices, and more

By Paul Driessen |2014-07-21T09:37:36-04:00July 21st, 2014|3 Comments

Big Green’s lethal agenda

Paul Driessen explains that the Deep Ecologists and their allies who endorse "sustainability," the "precautionary principle," and other barriers to resource development that would improve human lives must answer for the millions of premature (often women and children) deaths that are the result of their policies. He says these people are callous and indifferent to human suffering.

By Paul Driessen |2014-07-11T13:22:08-04:00July 11th, 2014|2 Comments

Needed: U.S. natural gas exports

The U.S. today has the resources to counter such moves as Russia's recent cutoff of natural gas shipments to Ukraine and the ISIS surge in Iraq that threatens that nation's oil and gas deliveries. The simple changes in law and policy needed to expedite the growth of the U.S. LNG business are to (a) open up federal lands and waters to drilling, and in particular, hydrofracking, and (b) expedite approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy of LNG export plans that would bring jobs for out-of-work Americans and tax revenues to state and local governments.

By Paul Driessen |2014-06-23T20:55:43-04:00June 23rd, 2014|Comments Off

Fixing our dictatorial EPA

The Obama Administration in 2013 alone imposed $1.86 trillion in new annual regulatory compliance costs for U.S. businesses and families, almost guaranteeing a flat economy at best. While only a few Americans consider environmental issues to be urgent, the EPA and the White House are doubling down on power generation, forcing prices upward and pressing for the shutdown of 40% of the U.S. energy base. All of this using "scientific research" (a) they they cannot even find, (b) that is "peer reviewed" only by cronies, or (c) that is tainted by massive contributions to advocacy groups like the American Lung Association. CFACT's Paul Driessen urges state and federal lawmakers and executives, and citizen and scientific groups, to take legal action and other steps to reverse this pattern of wanton disregard for the U.S. economiuc

By Paul Driessen |2014-06-19T20:20:33-04:00June 19th, 2014|2 Comments

What’s really behind anti-Keystone fanaticism?

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen reports that Big Green sees the Keystone XL pipeline as THE symbol of its anti-hydrocarbon crusade -- and that wealthy liberal foundations, billionair Tom Steyer, and Hollywood elites have poured hundreds of millions -- even billions -- of dollars into ensuring that the pipeline will never get approval. They are in for the kill and smell the blood of anyone with ties to coal, oil, and even natural gas. And this is what is killing the U.S. economy.

By Paul Driessen |2014-06-13T14:10:16-04:00June 13th, 2014|Comments Off

Sting: Hollywood caught laundering dark “Arab” oil money for Greens

Abscam II? Watch the Green-Left-Hollywood propaganda machine in action.

By Paul Driessen |2014-06-09T16:57:16-04:00June 8th, 2014|5 Comments

The loony anti-Keystone campaign

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen shows the power of the Big Green lobby, backed by $80 billion in gifts from wealthy liberal foundations ilke the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2000, have created a false flag campaign of hatred against the Keystone XL pipeline -- which has become THE symbol of Big Green environmentalism’s immutable opposition to … and hatred of … anything hydrocarbon.

By Paul Driessen |2014-05-24T08:45:40-04:00May 18th, 2014|1 Comment

Manmade “climate disruption” – the hype and reality

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen lists several reasons that the National Climate Assessment is borderline science fiction and has little basis in reality -- to distract the public from real issues; to justify job-killing regulatory policies; to obscure real-world climate changes; to protect and expand the flow of money to political friends and cronies; and to drive an agenda that is designed, in the words of Chief Science Advisor John Holdren, to "de-develop" the United States.

By Paul Driessen |2014-05-12T22:15:01-04:00May 12th, 2014|13 Comments

Should California dictate U.S. energy policies?

The Golden state of California is impoverishing its citizens with higher prices for energy of all kinds -- and boasting of its energy "progress" which it is gaining at the expense of other states and even countries. While, thanks in large part to hydrofracturing technology, the U.S. has cut oil imports from 60% to just 28% of its total needs, California's oil production fulfills just 38% of its needs, and 29% of its electricity comes from out-of-state. Gasoline prices are the second highest in the nation -- and are projected to rise another 170% over the next decade. And Californians pay twice the national average for residential electricity.

By Paul Driessen |2014-04-28T11:31:52-04:00April 28th, 2014|4 Comments

EPA’s Tower of Pisa policies

As dangerous as current EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and her former colleague Al Amendariz were, recent revelations indicate that two other EPA officials -- convicted felon John Beale and Robert Brenner -- may have been much worse. The pair concocted the sue-and-settle scheme that provides virtual kickbacks to "friendly" plaintiffs. They also manipulated scientific studies and even authorized illegal experiments on human test subjects to "justify" extremely stringent EPA regulations that slow or reverse business development -- and now the EPA claims it cannot find the scientific data upon which some major job-killing rules were supposedly based.

By Paul Driessen |2014-04-22T09:59:56-04:00April 21st, 2014|3 Comments

Time to repeal America’s crude petroleum export ban

Paul Driessen lays out the case for ending the ban on overseas shipment of crude petroleum, and in the process notes how shipping crude and refined petroleum overseas would be a boon to the U.S. economy and might also prod European nations to rethink their own policies towards energy production.

By Paul Driessen |2014-04-09T14:17:56-04:00April 8th, 2014|Comments Off

Perils of commercial beekeeping

It is time for U.S. and Canadian regulators to "bee" smart -- and ignore calls for copying the EU and banning neonicotinoids. While it is true that harvesting the nation's almond crop puts stress on bee colonies and exposes them to parasites and diseases,

By Paul Driessen |2014-04-06T01:12:53-04:00April 6th, 2014|Comments Off