Sierra Club
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
We Must All Sacrifice for the Environment (But I Meant You – Not Me!)
by Greg Walcher September 21, 2018Have we become a society of people who want to regulate others, but not ourselves?
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Solid evidence shows there is no “bee-pocalypse,” but alarmists allege new pesticide threats.
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There was a telling juxtaposition of events in April 1970.
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Environment/Energy
Earth Day 2018 Was About Plastic Pollution—But Greens Missed Target
by Steve Goreham May 13, 2018While efforts to reduce plastic pollution are needed, the campaign missed the mark by emphasizing measures to eliminate the use of plastics.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedScience
Heartland Takes on Nat Geo’s Coal Science Fiction Show
by H. Sterling Burnett October 15, 2017A few months before the Trump administration announced an end to the federal government’s war on electricity generated by coal when it rescinded the Clean Power Plan, the National Geographic (Nat Geo) channel, supposedly a bastion of science journalism excellence, ran a biased, anti-coal propaganda piece, From the Ashes, falsely claiming coal is causing everything from health problems to climate change. A short “viewer’s guide” by James Rust and Edward Hudgins, released by The Heartland Institute, effectively falsifies many of the claims made in Nat Geo’s docuganda.
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Environment/Energy
Before Closing the Waukegan Coal Plant, Lawmakers Should Consider California’s Failures
by Fred Palmer September 18, 2017A Lake County Republican has recently partnered with the Sierra Club in its Beyond Coal campaign, which advocates for the closure of the Waukegan Generating Station, a large coal-fueled power plant located on the shores of Lake Michigan that provides jobs for 100 people.
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Unless Trump instructs the agency to review and rescind the Endangerment Finding, he is simply treating the symptoms of this problem and not curing the disease.
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Uncategorized
Climate-Driven Coal Closures Harm Investors, Workers And Ratepayers
by H. Sterling Burnett March 29, 2017Coal is the fuel that powered the Industrial Revolution. Trains, steel production, electric power and more were powered by King Coal, which ruled the energy roost from the mid-19th century through the late-20th century.
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Coal is a gift that we have in abundance. The vast reserves of coal guarantee the United States energy for hundreds of years. Coal is efficient. No fuel, other than uranium, is cheaper.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
I Bet $1,000 the Air Will Be Cleaner in 2020 with Pruitt Running EPA
by Rich Trzupek December 21, 2016I am so sure that will be true that I offer the following wager to anyone associated with any of the big environmental groups: If the above statement turns out not to be true, I’ll personally donate $1,000 to your organization.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedMedia
InsideClimate News = Inside Climate Propaganda
by Paul Driessen May 1, 2016This collusion among activists, foundations and attorneys general seeks to silence, bankrupt and defund organizations that challenge their catechism of climate cataclysm. These conspirators want to deprive us of our constitutional rights to speak out on the exaggerated and fabricated science, the coordinated echo- chamber news stories, and the pressure group-driven policies that impair our livelihoods, living standards, health, welfare and environmental quality. We will not be intimidated or silenced.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Obama’s Climate Change Legacy to be Determined by Next President
by Marita Noon February 29, 2016After months of debate and public comments, President Obama’s controversial Clean Power Plan (CPP) was issued in August 2015 and published in the Federal Register on October 23, 2015. But that is hardly the end of the story. Instead the saga is just beginning—with the ending to be written sometime in 2017 and the outcome highly dependent on who resides in the White House.