Environmentalism – Page 12 – CFACT

The EPA’s man-made cooling crisis

The United States is likely to see brownouts and blackouts thanks to the shuttering of coal-fired power plants (and who knows, maybe even gas-fired plants) that are part of an Obama Administration effort to depower the nation to satisfy environmental extremists and to satisfy his own desire to diminish the role of the United States in world affairs. The EPA is his tool of choice (along with other federal agencies whose policies rarely are blocked by either elected officials or the courts). And as the supply of electricity dwindles, the price of power will rise dramatically, with the greatest negative impacts on the poor, the elderly, and the disabled.

By Larry Bell |2014-12-09T10:52:26-05:00December 9th, 2014|Comments Off

Welcome to the O-zone—where economic development is a zero-sum game

Included in the Obama Administration's "Unified Agenda" for 2015 are new, job-killing standards for ground-level ozone that are the product of a friendly lawsuit from the Sierra Club. These rules the President put on hold in 2011 in an effort to reduce “regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover" -- or maybe for fear they would harm his reelection chances in 2012. The new regulations will mean that, depending on the final rule, 76% to 96% of the country—including some national parks where the natural background levels for ozone are 65 to 67 parts per billion—will be out of compliance. This will deal a crushing blow to U.S. economic recovery -- and the Sierra Club and the President know and heartily approve of this tragic outcome.

By Marita Noon |2014-12-09T10:01:23-05:00December 9th, 2014|4 Comments

CFACT’s new book: “Cracking Big Green”

CFACT's hard-hitting exposé uncovers the Green elite's billions and reveals the harm they do to both people and the planet. Ron Arnold and Paul Driessen present sixteen shocking stories exposing the dark side of the environmental movement and what you can do to shine a light on it.

By CFACT Ed |2014-10-17T11:22:19-04:00October 16th, 2014|Comments Off

Regcession—why Americans aren’t feeling Obama’s “vigorous recovery”

Marita Noon asks, rather than complain when U.S. businesses take jobs overseas, why not just create a more favorable business climate here at home? One reason, she notes, is the penchant for the EPA and other federal agencies to over-regulate business and industry, adding costs and shrinking opportunities. She encourages everyone to watch a new film, “Regcession: The EPA is Destroying America,” on YouTube.

By Marita Noon |2014-10-17T01:15:18-04:00October 13th, 2014|3 Comments

People’s climate march wants to change the system, not the weather

Marita Noon shatters any illusion that the New York Climate March was about anything other than destroying the capitalist system and replacing it with a totalitarian, top-down socialist state. As one commenter said, "These people are defined by what they hate, and a big part of what they hate is capitalism.”

By Marita Noon |2014-10-02T17:53:44-04:00October 1st, 2014|8 Comments

Phony “environmental justice” at EPA

Ms. McCarthy should base environmental policy on sound science – and check her phony justice rhetoric at the door.

By Paul Driessen |2014-09-26T07:45:21-04:00September 24th, 2014|6 Comments

Opposition mounts to Obama’s proposed Pacific Monument expansion

Pacific Islanders incredulous. WATCH NOW "What country do we live in? With the stroke of a pen President Obama will close an area the size of the Gulf of Mexico... There are no coral reefs in the deep blue" and the fish there are highly migratory. "Does the President and his advisers understand what highly migratory means?"

By Duggan Flanakin |2014-08-28T18:39:23-04:00August 28th, 2014|Comments Off

Pummeling Coal Country families

President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency is about anything BUT protection of the American people and their economic future. Instead, the EPA has proposed regulations -- based on spurious research -- that will devastate families in coal states (and everywhere else as well as a result), kill millions of jobs, and force the cost of electricity to "skyrocket." These smug bureaucrats refuse to disclose their research, their economic projections, or any other data that they allegedly used to develop these proposed standards -- and they have been stonewalling even Congress, demonstrating their unabashed arrogance. It is time that the people rose up, demanded action by their elected representatives to stop the EPA's onslaught on America, and bring the whole truth to light about these rules and the shenanigans of those who seek to impose them on us.

By Paul Driessen |2014-08-28T19:11:54-04:00August 26th, 2014|1 Comment

Workers suffer when militarized police and Big Green get together

Billionaire environmentalists have long been at war against the American people -- and hide behind federal agencies which have joyfully done their bidding. Today, however, people are awakening to this threat, and fighting back against the billionaires. As Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written, the poor will revolt against this micro-management of the economy and the environment by rich elites.

By Ron Arnold |2014-08-25T17:58:16-04:00August 25th, 2014|1 Comment

U.S. Government releases predators against its own people

With pressure from environmentalists (including anti-meat activists), the federal government reintroduced the Mexican grey wolf into southern New Mexico and other areas -- to the dismay of ranchers and their families, livestock, and pets. The anti-people zealots are now demanding even greater protections for these wolves, who routinely kill other endangered or threatened species and pose genuine threats to people despite claims that wolves do not attack humans. The time is now to fight against this dangerous trend -- by submitting comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

By Marita Noon |2014-08-25T17:59:31-04:00August 25th, 2014|19 Comments

Climate Change: a symbolic battle against an unpleasant, toxic way of life

The environment has become a proxy for a "tribal battle.” The climate alarmists scare tactics are no longer working

By Marita Noon |2014-08-19T12:08:49-04:00August 19th, 2014|2 Comments

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

The hidden persuaders of the environmental elite

Ever wonder why Green-Left activists are so obsessed about funding? Meet the conservation cash cartel of the uber-rich: the Environmental Grantmakers Association. If you like EPA, you'll love EGA

By Ron Arnold |2014-08-07T00:10:41-04:00August 6th, 2014|4 Comments

Wyoming ranchers sue Western Watersheds Project for trespassing

Wyoming ranchers are suing the Western Watersheds Project for trespassing for gathering water samples on private and state land without permission. WWP's stated mission is to rid public lands of all grazing leases. Writer Ron Arnold says their activities constitute "rural cleansing."

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2014-08-05T09:59:13-04:00August 1st, 2014|5 Comments

Overreaching federal government makes strong men weak

Long before Obama, the federal government had been conducting a war against farmers and ranchers in the West. Every new action under the Endangered Species Act, every land grab (aka National Monument designation), every effort to introduce predators into lands used for decades, even centuries, to support human activity, is an assault by rich and powerful bullies who despise the simple lifestyle these hard-working people lead. But who will stop this war against the American West?

By Marita Noon |2014-07-01T17:27:27-04:00July 1st, 2014|3 Comments