"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" Coal, Enviro Derangement Syndrome - TT's Lost in Tokyo

Steven Milloy - yet another thoughtful green-hater - on RFK, Jr. and "coal criminal" Don Blankenship by TokyoTom

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...

[Update] Cato's Jerry Taylor: Nuclear power is "solar power for conservatives" and needs "a policy of tough love" by TokyoTom

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...

Update from Rob Bradley: My BOOKS prove that I'm a free-marketer! (That's why I'm free to boost fossil fuels and bash enviros on my blogs!) by TokyoTom

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...

Rob Bradley cheers on coal, but are all those who want to better manage commons and environmental impacts "Malthusian" idiots, or only in the case of coal? by TokyoTom

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...

"Clean coal" leaves a big mess; which faceless employee, manager or shareholder committed this tort? by TokyoTom

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...
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