#environmental hypocrisy

Where potholes multiply, taxes skyrocket, and every problem is solved with a resolution, task force, or rainbow flag. Welcome to Montgomery County, Maryland—a place where lawn signs are a political strategy, tweets count as public service, and the roads may be crumbling but our moral high ground is paved and freshly painted. While other jurisdictions govern, Montgomery County emotes. It’s not…

Part of The New Land Wars series They call it clean energy.But there’s nothing clean about bulldozing forests, slicing through farmland, and suing families to make way for high-voltage transmission lines that don’t even benefit the people losing everything. The Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP) is being sold to the public as an environmental necessity — a vital step toward…

Breaching Snake River Dams Riles Pacific Northwest

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ An Idaho congressman’s push to win congressional and Biden White House approval for removing four dams in the Lower Snake River in order to save dwindling stocks of salmon has ignited a firestorm in the Pacific Northwest. Idaho Republican Congressman Mike Simpson’s dam-removal proposal is part of a $33.5 billion infrastructure package that will distribute vast sums of…

Biden Should Help Clean Up The Developing World’s Exotic Mining Tragedy

By Ronald Stein ~ Reducing America’s emissions (if that’s your thing) is a major goal of President Elect Biden’s platform, but it should not be implemented by “leaking” environmental degradation and human atrocities to foreign countries that are supplying the exotic minerals and metals to support green electricity. Biden has an opportunity to follow the lead of the United Nations and Amnesty…

By Mark Hendrickson, Ph.D. ~

You can debate the details, but for my generation (the baby boomers who went to college in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s) the modern environmental is a half-century old. The movement was a twinkle in Rachel Carson’s eye when she published in Silent Spring1962. Its embryonic stage included the dissemination of alarmist (and spectacularly wrong) predictions such as those…

Alaska’s Pebble Mine No Threat To Salmon

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~

The nearly two-decades-old controversy surrounding a proposed gold and copper mine in Southwest Alaska entered a new phase July 24, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), reversing an Obama-era finding, and concluded that the project “would not be expected to have a measurable effect on fish numbers” in the Bristol Bay watershed, which supports the world’s largest…

Green Alarmism Obtuse As Ever

By Peter Murphy ~

Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Not a few green activists and media-types can avoid pointing out how much “cleaner” is the environment (“the play”) since the economy has gone into a worldwide depression because millions of people have lost their jobs and/or remain idle at home.

The coronavirus has brought rampant death worldwide combined with now 26 million…