Paul Driessen is senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which is sponsoring the All Pain No Gain petition against global-warming hype. He also is a senior policy adviser to the Congress of Racial Equality and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Chemophobic anti-pesticide groups are at it again. This time they're attacking a widely used and safe new insecticide, but their assertions and real agendas are nothing new. Modern environmentalism rose to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/05/18/a-bee-in-their-bonnet-n1599835 06727c9f-73b9-4e69-9870-55bde7159d51 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it's getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deep water drilling, 3-D... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/04/27/opposed-to-drilling-fracking-keystoneand-exports-n1579654 cf397c40-1f2e-41d9-9cf8-2197b15bdc04 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits, but will impose high economic and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/04/13/epas-tier-3-tyranny-n1566541 3dfe551c-ecea-4bc4-ad28-9e02feeeb435 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Georgia residents recently learned that a rare bat has stalled state highway improvements. The May 2012 sighting of an endangered Indiana brown bat in a northern Georgia tree has triggered federal regulations requiring http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/04/06/cut-fingers-cancer-bats-and-birds-n1558519 3f23c87b-42f9-4ef7-8261-f87d7e96d70f Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Gina McCarthy, President Obama's choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use "dangerous manmade climate change"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/03/21/ecoimperialism-joins-vulture-environmentalism-n1543962 7ccaab6c-4e36-4c40-8fa5-c082af746771 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT In his first address as Secretary of State, John Kerry said we must safeguard "the most sacred trust" we owe to our children and grandchildren: "an environment not ravaged by rising seas, deadly superstorms, devastating http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/03/04/our-real-manmade-climate-crisis-n1524957 30a21c9c-5380-4141-beab-043a3e624aca Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT Average planetary temperatures haven't budged in 16 years. Hurricanes and strong tornadoes are at or near their lowest ebb in decades. Global sea ice is back to normal, while the Antarctic icepack continues to grow. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/02/16/carbon-tax-hallucinations-n1511772 0be732a8-b14a-48c2-aae3-7d2f5d10ff55 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and oth http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/02/02/real-sustainability-versus-activist-sustainability-n1502612 0a09e545-96af-4ed3-89cb-07e9891c3e0c Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his state's portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed were environmentally sensitive. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/01/26/desperately-trying-to-derail-canadian-oil-sands-n1496680 707da6be-b2ef-4f62-9ca9-7e705aadd1ba Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT Policy integrity. Ethical culture. Environmental protection. Environmental defense. Friends of earth. Defenders of wildlife. Not just their names, but their charter, culture and policies - their very being - represent a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2013/01/13/trampling-on-people-environment-and-ethics-n1487620 cf85b2e8-9f49-4ac4-a7f3-9f02c32c188b Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT "Superstorm" Sandy killed more than 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, and left millions without food, water, electricity, sanitation or shelter for days or even weeks. Our thoughts and prayers... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/12/29/the-political-superstorm-that-devastated-new-york-n1475682 0256957e-af98-4fb9-9111-786d23ae3a0f Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT An oil and natural gas boom is underway in the United States, born of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." It has created tens of thousands of well-paying jobs directly, and hundreds of thousands... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/12/21/the-new-robber-barons-n1472074 84124395-f679-40ee-9963-925043fc9551 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:00:00 GMT Congress and the White House are struggling to find even one subsidy or entitlement program that they are willing to cut. Meanwhile, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) insists that the 2.2-cents per... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/12/15/stop-subsidizing-the-slaughter-n1467370 a6745c63-8bc6-42a9-b9c1-cd3132916b2d Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT In Walt Disney's 1940 animated film "Pinocchio," woodcarver Geppetto dreams that his wooden marionette will turn into a real boy. Geppetto's hopes are immortalized in the song "When You Wish Upon a Star," which begins:... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/12/08/obamas_walt_disney_energy_policies 9fbe41d3-68d3-44aa-a922-3c6c0ec9284d Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT Climate alarmists are meeting in Doha, Qatar, to hammer out a new international treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires this year. The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to unleash its first wave of http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/12/01/facing_a_triple_threat_doha_epa_and_congress 6a1b3f33-56cf-4b42-bd6b-7c5e1433fe3a Sat, 01 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT The United States is now Balkanized into five distinct voting blocs, says Joel Kotkin. Other political analysts see the nation bifurcating along "makers" and "takers" lines, while still others say 50.6% of the popular... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/11/17/the_coming_environmental_battles 00b28fd6-fadf-49e1-8c6b-b7b63e5828fc Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:01:00 GMT Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have boosted shale gas production from zero a few years ago to 10% of all US energy supplies in 2012, observes energy analyst Daniel Yergin. Fracking has also increased US... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/10/27/fractured_fairy_tales_greens_hate_natural_gas_and_fracking_but_costly_parasitic_wind_energy_cant_live_without_it 9423324d-204c-4cfa-8f33-4611c093dd7b Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer-funded government grants, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/10/20/perverse_environmentalist_oil_sands_ethics 9699a2bf-247e-48b4-b476-cd9001349ddf Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT Governor Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the foundation of renewed US employment and prosperity. President Obama is waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and efforts to end our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/10/18/winners_and_losers_energy_policies 97fc8e35-bfef-48e3-9669-12f658e7d4ae Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook - on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine - and you'll find a slew of "facts" and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the "consensus"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/09/15/weirding_our_sanity_and_democracy e5988c0a-8714-4f90-bd77-78041f09414d Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT Seven score and nine years ago, President Lincoln resolved to take increased devotion to ensuring that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth. Yet, today, our lives... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/09/08/government_of_by_and_for_the_epa 08442de6-6124-4b0e-9af0-432f0cef1e50 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT Editor's note: This piece was co-authored by David Legates. Back in 1983, during the information processing Cretaceous Period, Maxis developed a new genre of educational, yet entertaining computer games. The latest... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/08/25/our_simcity_government 67954e6e-897b-4eeb-b76b-040fb482a1a9 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT America needs more economic growth, domestic manufacturing, jobs - and secure, affordable energy to make those things happen. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney understands that achieving this goal requires unleashing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/08/18/real_energy_for_a_new_american_renaissance 9b6e4d16-48eb-4814-aae5-8b93b5abf11e Sat, 18 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT If America had a "Spend Like a Drunken Sailor Award," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus would win hands-down, for blowing $12 million on biofuel for Navy ships. Even as the armed services face drastic budget cuts under... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/08/04/beat_gsa b57f05d4-cf97-4a32-9e7b-d9ed1c7e6d97 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT The latest justification for extending the industrial wind electricity production tax credit (PTC) is that we need an "all of the above" energy policy. The slogan falls flat, even when it's expanded to "all of the above... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/07/28/voting_for_wildlife_extermination 1ad30137-64f0-4020-83bf-851384b2c8e4 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT Millions of Americans watched their evening news in horrified fascination. The Colorado Springs wildfire had doubled in size overnight, to 24 square miles - half the size of San Francisco - as 50-mph gusts carried... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/07/20/western_wildfires_horrific_destructiveand_unnecessary 2aa9cf24-8b1b-45ef-a74b-624dd286dc41 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Obama has waged war on fossil fuels for three and a half years - and American consumers and families are caught in the green energy crossfire. They are getting hit with higher energy prices, dismal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/07/12/caught_in_a_green_crossfire 66665ab6-ab62-4d7d-9444-8a0378fe6c0c Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:58:00 GMT Editors' note: This column is co-authored by Duggan Flanakin. The Future We Want outlined a "common vision" for planetary "sustainable development," as proclaimed by the "Organizing Partners of the Major Group of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/06/26/dodging_another_un_bullet a669ab63-63bb-467a-9da7-b1a5e757542c Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:01:00 GMT Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by David Rothbard The UN Conference on Sustainable Development is underway in Rio de Janeiro. This time, 20 years after the original 1992 Rio "Earth Summit," thousands of http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/06/20/rio20_is_greatest_threat_to_biodiversity 07333f0f-3248-4076-916d-4aea64eadf5c Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:01:00 GMT Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Duggan Flanakin Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would "fundamentally transform the United States of America." One clue to what... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/06/18/sustainable_justice_á_la_rio20 c4edd7dc-4f82-49c8-b032-e7719a986137 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:21:00 GMT EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says we face serious threats to human health, welfare and justice. She’s absolutely right. However, the crisis is not due to factory or power plant emissions, or supposed effects... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/05/25/americas_real_climate_and_environmental_crisis 08f6801a-80e4-4d32-9952-8277ffe8c67d Sat, 26 May 2012 03:24:00 GMT Good for Wal-Mart! Despite intense pressure by anti-biotechnology activists, the retailing giant didn't cave in to demands that it "reject" Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) sweet corn. Other retailers had... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/05/21/rare_corporate_courage_and_common_sense 3404f13f-a50f-4127-828b-b5802d50a697 Mon, 21 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they'd had enough. Informed and inspired by a loose... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/05/09/why_we_need_to_terminate_big_wind_subsidies ef7f2911-ba71-4e90-a13d-34ff39bb31ec Wed, 09 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough. Informed and inspired by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/05/08/why_we_need_to_terminate_big_wind_subsidies 3d9db473-cc35-4821-a4f2-3189acf272b2 Tue, 08 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Obama and Senate Democrats need to take Lemonade Economics 101. Tell a ten-year-old that the federal government is going to make him pay 25 cents for every glass of lemonade he sells at his corner... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/04/14/president_obama_is_working_to_make_gasoline_more_expensive e8030dd2-0501-4f44-a71e-1e917776be17 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/04/10/the_folly_of_e15_antihydrocarbon_policies 014e6a9c-c9fa-48ad-9a53-f6fd81cdf213 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to "stop fracking in its tracks." No wonder. The technology is an existential threat to fundamental "green" dogmas. Horizontal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/03/28/fracking_an_existential_threat_to_green_dogma d055df91-e272-4b32-920a-26849fe8f250 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT When President Obama took office, regular gasoline cost $1.85 a gallon. Now it’s hit $4.00 per gallon in many cities, and some analysts predict it could reach $5.00 or more this summer. Filling your tank... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/03/19/hunting_for_scapegoats_wont_lower_pump_prices 60b1bda1-80e5-499a-bee3-6456191f7e83 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:01:00 GMT President Obama "is focused like a laser on putting people back to work," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) assured us last fall - echoing repeated statements by President Obama and Administration officials who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/02/07/that_jobs_thing_sure_didnt_last_long 5cdb852f-871a-4cd3-a362-f08a4e212818 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:12:00 GMT Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Willie Soon. In December 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency released new Clean Air Act "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants." Once again, EPA... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/02/01/agendadriven_science_at_epa 67ea31aa-d6fb-4a4e-a8d1-62699281d08a Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:18:00 GMT ". gleaming white wind turbines generating carbon-free electricity carpet chaparral-covered ridges and march down into valleys of Joshua trees." This is "the future" of American energy - not "the oil rigs planted... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2012/01/16/charles_manson_energy db3dd71c-1027-4317-97ca-f01e26ff4347 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:50:00 GMT Our nation’s economic growth may finish an anemic 2 percent on the year. Faced with looming taxes and regulations, few companies are expanding, hiring or buying equipment. More than 14 million Americans are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/12/14/american_energy_can_jumpstart_us_recovery 671cbb27-e3e3-49c2-a6bb-2a45daf944f6 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:56:00 GMT In a repeat of Copenhagen, on the eve of the Durban climate change gabfest, someone released another horde of emails from alarmist climate researchers, including Dr. Michael Mann, whose infamous "hockey stick" was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/12/09/scandal_and_insanity_at_penn_state 26ff28dc-8191-4416-b85b-9b457105f1de Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:58:00 GMT Progress improves lives. It brings better, cleaner, more energy efficient technology. It reduces poverty and improves working conditions, health, nutrition, living standards and social equity. It generates... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/11/10/electricity_parks_and_progress_for_chile 74e4e686-d54b-407c-91d2-0c8ac1d7b267 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the cliquish clan of climate catastrophe researchers who seek to control science, debate and public policy on global warming and energy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/10/25/its_libel_--_except_when_mike_does_it 0e0beee9-8f19-47ea-8efb-4a4bbdca6739 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT Hydraulic fracturing sends “huge volumes of toxic fluids” deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims. “Billions of gallons of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/10/01/what_the_frack_is_going_on_here d270f507-43bc-4794-8d2f-3f097edbbd53 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT Coauthored with John Nichols Delaware’s political establishment thinks First State electricity consumers should subsidize the manufacturing of super-sized fuel cells, under the auspices of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/09/26/delawares_very_own_solyndra 4da13ed7-3218-45a6-9f94-f72aedce723d Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:51:00 GMT Millions of Americans recently celebrated the demise of the Environmental Protection Agency’s job-killing ground-level ozone regulations. While a toast was appropriate, we shouldn’t drink too much... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/09/19/victory_is_sweet,_but_the_war_continues 4928c02a-339c-4d39-bf7d-5464190499e3 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:16:00 GMT It’s a common tactic among groups promoting climate alarmism and anti-hydrocarbon policies. As evidence mounts that manmade catastrophic climate change is not imminent, extreme weather events cannot be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/09/14/trying_to_snooker_smucker 14542dfc-2cc6-4c7d-923d-7a53fdffee0b Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:19:00 GMT President Obama and a chorus of environmentalists, politicians, corporate executives and bureaucrats are perennially bullish on wind power as the bellwether of our "clean energy economy of the future." In reality,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/09/01/our_least_sustainable_energy_option a8475fee-4318-49b6-83df-af1c96cb3ea6 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:28:00 GMT