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Sadly, so-called "free-marketers" are often so busy smacking down bad arguments from greens that they fail to note, much less acknowledge, that they're fairly frequently making bad arguments themselves or ignoring gaping inconsistencies in their own positions. Of course it IS awfully easy...
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Anti-enviro Steven Milloy ,adjunct scholar at CEI, author and co-founder of a gadfly free-enterprise fund, has a post up on his Green Hell Blog about some interesting recent remarks by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Apparently RFK Jr., at the "Capitol Climate Action" rally held on March 2, said that...
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After decades of loathing nuclear power as the ugly, monstrous child of a big government Dr. Frankenstein, climate-change-fearing enviros like George Monbiot are finally coming around to the relative benefits of nuclear power. This is a welcome change - as it is clear that coal has generated and continues...
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I noted in a previous post that Rob Bradley , CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and lead blogger at MasterResource , has cheered on big coal and bashed what he calls "Malthusian anti-energy crusaders", but ignoring while he does so the questions of (1) whether there are any legitimate...
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Rob Bradley has a new post up at MasterResource , cheering on big (and now "clean") coal, which has apparently received assurances from the Obama administration - after being bad-mouthed by NASA scientist Jim Hansen , Steven Chu and Obama himself - that, despite pressures from the "Malthusian...
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Yes, I'm referring to the bursting of the TVA holding dam in Kingston, TN a few days ago, leaving a Christmas Eve present of millions of cubic feet of wet fly ash several feet deep over hundreds of acres downstream, including now valueless private homes and property, and flowing into the Clinch River...
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Just in time for last Sunday's readings at Advent liturgies of Isaiah 40:4, on December 2 the White House and EPA approved the final issuance by the Department of the Interior of industry-backed changes in the 25-year-old stream "buffer zone" rule . The revised rule, which the NYT describes...
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I received the following email today from Cathy Zoi , who is the CEO of Al Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" and sent back the response I note further below; Dear Tokyo, Last week, Exxon Mobil announced record profits -- at the same time that the rest of us were paying record high...
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On the main Mises blog, Bob Murphy has just advocated opening ANWR and the OCS to oil and natural gas exploration and development , for the purpose of providing "rapid relief at the pump". As my comment has been held up - it only had two links for Pete's sake! - I've decided to post...
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In response to Jim Hansen's recent expressed desire for "public trials" for fossil fuel executives if, despite being "aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual," they continue their "campaigns" "to spread doubt about global warming" in...
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... with the federal government, state and union all firmly in the pocket of coal firms. This seems to be a classic case, on a huge scale, of the difficulties individual property owners and communities face when confronting clearly wrongful acts by large corporations with deep pockets - and how easily...