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Francis Beinecke is president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and for several decades has been among the most active environmental legal activists in using court suits and the threat thereof to stop the fossil fuel energy development required to keep the American economy – aka as “the people” – moving.

Drilling in Cuban waters by Key West could trigger a spate of exploration free from U.S. control

British Petroleum (BP) is to blame for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, not the oil industry as a collective entity

Waxman (D-Calif.) said he would “absolutely” seek to keep greenhouse gas limits alive in a House-Senate conference if the Senate approves energy legislation this summer that omits carbon provisions.

To believe that a single trace molecule in the atmosphere controls the climate and that the even further miniscule portion of this gas caused by humans can effect change, is to put it mildly a ‘blunder’. But to base billions of wasted tax money on this as ‘science’ and then to promote ruinous taxation as a remedy creates undeniable FRAUD.

Largest skimmer in the world to wait on bureaucracy. Environmental Protection Agency is worried that some of the 500,000 barrels of oily water sucked up each day by the vessel may contain some traces of oil when placed back in the Gulf.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

George Soros is a funder of the Center for American Progress headed by Obama’s transition team leader John Podesta. Podesta and his brother Tony have a lobbying group that represents BP. A Wall Street Journal article pointed out the the initial Obama administration’s responses to the oil spill were directed by the Center for American Progress. What’s next?

In a dangerous lame duck session look for Democrats to ‘forward fund’ pet projects, pass cap and trade, card check and other bills the American people do not want.

He followed the established but failed practice of proposing complex, indirect remedies that aim to hide costs from consumers (and thus, voters). At best, this political sleight-of-hand makes import reductions and emission controls far more costly to achieve than would otherwise be the case. Economic harm is the more likely outcome.