Sierra Club

Sierra Club abandons environment to push industrial wind and solar

By Mary Kay Barton: Big wind and solar are neither Green, nor efficient.

By Mary Kay Barton |2021-02-25T11:15:46-05:00March 10th, 2019|Comments Off

Sierra Club sues EPA to block reform of truck regulations

Seeking to block use of "gliders" which pair refurbished engines with new trucks.

By CFACT Ed |2018-07-18T13:32:31-04:00July 18th, 2018|Comments Off

Pruitt’s EPA ends “sue and settle” gravy train sham

CFACT policy analyst Larry Bell reports that President Trump's EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has dealt a death blow to the scurrilous practice of the EPA colluding with interest groups to alter public policy through staged litigation that denies opponents of their punitive schemes no opportunity for their own day in court.

By Larry Bell |2017-10-23T14:32:35-04:00October 23rd, 2017|Comments Off

Liberals are freaking out over Trump’s EPA pick

Trump says he will refocus the EPA to its core mission protecting air and water, instead of focusing on man-made global warming.

By CFACT Ed |2016-12-08T04:55:16-05:00December 8th, 2016|12 Comments

Making Earth a “High-Energy Planet”

Electricity for Africa may become a reality, unless global warming campaigners get their way.

By Ron Arnold |2014-07-24T08:31:13-04:00July 23rd, 2014|2 Comments

Green groups raise plentiful green cash

Environmental groups often like to portray themselves as “blue-jean defenders of Mother Earth.” But would it surprise you this is largely a myth?

By Craig Rucker |2013-10-03T14:26:43-04:00October 1st, 2013|Comments Off

Sierra Club: They’re coming to take our land!

The “century-old” Antiquities Act gives President Obama the authority to designate national monument status even if there’s no actual monument erected. A national monument designation makes the locale off limits to development. President Obama has used this “emergency” designation nine times—six times in the past year. The Sierra Club wants it used more.

By Marita Noon |2013-06-11T10:09:00-04:00June 11th, 2013|6 Comments

Green lawyers rake in taxpayer dollars

Suing Uncle Sam can often be a difficult and costly endeavor – difficult, that is, unless you happen to be an environmental policy organization staffed with a large number of lawyers.

By Craig Rucker |2013-04-30T11:06:23-04:00April 30th, 2013|Comments Off

EPA, Greens play a hazy “sue and settle” game

One of the most successful Sue and Settle strategies cited in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study “… has been on an issue few in Washington or around the nation are paying attention to: regional haze requirements under the Clean Air Act.” The Chamber study's author, William Yeatman, concluded that: “… no state is immune from having its rightful Regional Haze authority trampled by EPA at profound costs for virtually nonexistent benefits.”

By Larry Bell |2013-02-17T15:02:29-05:00February 17th, 2013|3 Comments