Environment www.TheCitizensWhoCare.org The John Birch Society calls for responsible stewardship of our natural resources. It believes our natural resources should be used to the fullest extent via the free market and that the government should not lead the charge for new markets, nor should it hinder the growth potential of coal, oil, nuclear, and other natural resources found in the U.S. Seattle: $20 Million Grant Creates 14 "Green" Jobs Seattle reaped the benefit of a $20 million federal grant to weatherize homes in one of America’s "greenest" cities, and 16 months later, a whopping 14 jobs were created — making the cost per job a wondrous $1,428,571. "The jobs are not… Obama’s Seven New Regulations Would Cost U.S. Economy Billions President Obama sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Tuesday detailing seven new regulations that would each cost the U.S. economy more than $1 billion annually. With regulatory costs for American businesses of at least $38 billion per year and… Stop the UN's Agenda 21 & 'Sustainable Development' You can help stop the UN's environmental juggernaut, Agenda 21 and "Sustainable Development." Maintain Our Electricity Supply: REIN in the EPA The EPA's upcoming air pollution regulation revisions are creating concern in the energy industry. Feds Raid Gibson Guitar to Save Endangered Foreign Trees At approximately 8:45 a.m. on August 24, federal agents raided Gibson Guitar Corporation facilities in Nashville and Memphis, making off with an estimated $1 million worth of Gibson property. Gibson’s alleged crime? Using imported wood from endangered trees. At least that’s what… Help Bring Canadian Oil to American Refineries The North American-Made Energy Security Act would direct the President to expedite the approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.... Obama Administration Gives Taxpayers 112 Million Reasons to Grouse About Wasteful Spending For all its posturing about cutting spending, the Obama administration seems to have little difficulty finding cash to reward its friends in the environmental movement. Solar energy, despite its limited usefulness, has been subsidized with hundreds of millions of dollars of federal grants and loans,... EPA Regulations to Shut Down Coal Plants and Raise Energy Prices The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sketching out a regulatory blueprint designed to control pollution levels from coal-fired power plants, and lying under the torrent of new regulations will be mercury, smog, water intake, coal ash, and greenhouse gases.Over the next 18 months, the EPA will... Mars Attacks: Scientists Say Aliens May Destroy Mankind Over Global Warming Three years after the release of the remake The Day the Earth Stood Still, a team of American researchers has made the film’s theme a scientific theory: They are suggesting that an alien race might destroy man to stop our release of greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming.Writes Fox News:The... Some Unintended Consequences of Raising CAFÉ Again With the President’s announcement of higher mileage requirements — to 54.5 mpg on new cars and trucks sold in the United States by the year 2025 — came the usual promises of less dependence upon foreign oil and reduced “greenhouse gas” emissions. Said the White House blog,... EU Tells Sweden to Rescind Wolf-hunting Licenses or Face Legal Action The European Union has threatened Sweden with legal action unless it rescinds its first issuance of wolf-hunting licenses in 45 years. Swedish Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren announced that his country has no wish to engage in long legal proceedings in Brussels, the de facto capital of... Stimulus Dollars in Seattle Fail to Create Green Jobs as Promised Seattle, Washington, is one of 25 communities that received $20 million from the Stimulus program as part of “Retrofit Ramp Up” — an initiative of the Department of Energy in which stimulus dollars are utilized to make homes more energy efficient. The program was touted as one that... Will Oil from Canada's Keystone XL Pipeline Go to U.S. or China? There is no resolution yet on a proposed $7 billion Canadian-U.S. oil pipeline, as President Obama has continued to delay his decision on whether to approve it. Before the construction and operation of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline expansion can progress, the President, through the U.S. State Department’s... Manners and Civilization Recently, Al Gore was permitted an opportunity to indulge his obsession with “global warming” at the Aspen Institute, and the former Vice President had some rather choice words for critics of his anthropogenic conception of “climate change.”They are the same people, he declared,... Obama's Commerce Secretary Nominee Calls for Carbon Tax Should energy consumers pay extra taxes to fund government-mandated and subsidized renewable energy technologies? "Absolutely yes," says John Bryson, President Obama's nominee for Commerce Secretary. He made the remark at a meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California in 2009 and went on to extol the... Al Gore's Climatological "Meltdown" In recent years, former Vice President Al Gore has been the object of a great deal of humor — and ire — for his extremist views and hypocritical actions when it comes to the environment. But a bizarre rant the man who was once heartbeats away from becoming president of these United States... The EPA and the Common Defense Of all of the myriad agencies created and maintained by the Executive Branch, few have proven to be as detrimental to the United States as the Environmental Protection Agency. Since its birth under President Nixon’s executive order in 1970, the mission of the EPA has been to protect human health... Democrats Work to Expand Natural-gas Drilling Regulations Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to redefine "diesel fuel" so it can expand regulations in natural-gas drilling. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce claims the measure is necessary to "protect human health" from fuels used in hydraulic fracturing,... Obama Pressured to Approve Canada-U.S. Oil Pipeline Environmental contention stirs as discussions cultivate over the long-delayed 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport Canadian crude oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands in northeastern Alberta, Canada, to southern parts of the United States. Due to environmental concerns, lawsuits from oil... Chevy Volt Sales Plummet as the Electric Car Market Slumps As GM share prices plunge so do Chevy Volt sales, according to the latest auto sales figures. Throughout July, a whopping 125 Chevy Volts were sold, making the seemingly low 281 units sold in February a groundbreaking month.GM spokeswoman Michelle Bunker attributed the fallback to "supply constraints,"... DOE Uses Cartoon Icons to Promote Environmentalist Agenda With Children During a July 20 Department of Education event in Washington, D.C. — the third of its kind this summer — area schoolchildren were given access to free books, two of which featured Nickelodean's cartoon icons Spongebob and Dora the Explorer pushing an environmentalist agenda and encouraging... Obama Announces New Fuel Economy Standards The Obama administration has unveiled a new round of fuel economy standards for cars and trucks, which are expected to require mileage gains of nearly double the current figure. The new CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards will last through the year 2025.The proposal mandates that all passenger ... Data Disproves Global Warming Computer Models As the United Nations defends a scheme to rob the industrialized world of $2 trillion a year to fund its redistributionists aims, the latest scientific evidence continues to undermine the fundamental premises on which the edifice of global warming alarmism has been standing.As reported previously for... Why Private Industry Keeps Telling Us to “Go Green” I've sounded the alarm over the dangers of Sustainable Development and the agenda for top-down control through what proponents call the "Three Es," which includes the Environment, the Economy, and Social Equity. A fourth rail to imposing Agenda 21 is called Corporate Social Responsibility. It is the... Environmentalists Halt Plans for New Coal Mine Near Birmingham, Ala. In the battle of environmentalists against business that began years ago in the United States, one of its latest victims is Birmingham, Alabama, coal mine owner Ronnie Bryant.During a recent public hearing in Birmingham — called to consider whether to place a coal mine near a river that serves... Uncle Sam Tries to Drive Us Bonkers Item: “The White House is negotiating new vehicle mileage and emissions standards with carmakers, labour unions and environmental groups, proposing rules that would sharply cut petrol bills for US drivers and put domestic manufacturers on a par with those in Europe and Asia,” reported London’s... Good Things Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.In politics, there are not simply good things but some... Using the Food Crisis According to internationally acclaimed author and highly regarded expert Lester Brown, writing in the January 10 issue of Foreign Policy magazine:Tonight there will be 219,000 additional mouths to feed at the dinner table, and many of them will be greeted with empty plates.Another 219,000 will join us... D.C.'s Dim Bulbs Like me, you’d probably find it creepy and extremely unsettling were a total stranger to obsess about you. Indeed, you might even degenerate from Peaceable Person to Screaming, Cursing Banshee Throwing Wild Punches were the guy to buttonhole you and dictate how many gallons your toilet may flush,... House to Vote on Bill that Overturns Light Bulb Ban The U.S. House of Representatives is pushing legislation that would overturn a law that bans incandescent light bulbs and sets new energy-efficiency standards for the bulbs. Under President George W. Bush, a 2007 energy act was passed that requires efficiency upgrades in incandescent light bulbs, which... Government Funding Down; Scientists Experiment With “Crowd-Funding” Websites In recent decades such a large portion of scientific research has been funded by governments, either directly or through government-funded universities, that most people can scarcely imagine a world in which research is paid for solely by the private sector. Today, however, researchers are feeling the... The EPA Plays Punch and Judy with the American People JBS CEO Art Thompson's topics this week — The EPA Plays Punch and Judy with the American People; and Obama administration reaches out to militant Islam.... UN Demands $76 Trillion for “Green Technology” With the Western nations continuing their downward economic spiral, the advocates of the United Nations’ redistributionist schemes also continue to exploit the environmental agenda in their effort to fundamentally alter the global economy to serve their own ends.Despite the failure of the Copenhagen... Obama Administration Proposes Doubling Gas Mileage Standards by 2025 If the Obama administration gets its way, you can kiss your next SUV — and possibly your life, if you're involved in an automobile accident — goodbye. The administration is proposing a doubling of current federal gas mileage standards by 2025. New cars manufactured in that year would be required... Environmental Extremists: The World Will End! Those who fancy that man is God make many assumptions about human "divinity." Yet man is little closer to predicting the course of volcanoes than when Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii. How successful is cloud-seeding to end devastating droughts? Could the President have told the nation that the levees along... Supreme Court Not So Hot on Global Warming On June 20, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot invoke federal common law in an effort to limit so-called greenhouse-gas emissions.E&E, a publisher that covers environmental and energy news, outlined the parameters of the case:The plaintiffs — six states, New York City and several land trusts... Scientists Try to Have It Both Ways on Global-warming It was announced June 15 that scientists are now fairly sure that around 2020, sunspot activity is going to lessen significantly. All the conditions for it are lining up so far. In layman’s language, less active sun, with fewer sunspots, can produce cooling because solar flares are diminished.... Beginning of the End for Ethanol Subsidies On Thursday the United States Senate voted to end the 45 cents-per-gallon subsidy currently supporting the ethanol industry. The bill, offered by liberal Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and conservative Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), was passed overwhelmingly, 73-27.... Environmentalist: Cuts Mean No Climate Benefits for 1000 Years Tim Flannery, the head of Australia's Climate Change Commission, admits that draconian cuts in industry and energy would not have a measurable effect on global temperatures for “over 1000 years.”... Appliance Regulation Bill Approved for Vote by Full Senate Congress, after limiting light bulb choice, is now moving toward mandating higher energy efficiency in appliances and just about anything that plugs into an electrical outlet. ... Scientists Challenge Global Warming “Crisis” The major mainstream media and a small group of pseudo-scientific fright peddlers continue to ignore the claims of real scientists and their compelling evidence that global warming is a naturally occurring phenomenon, and has little to do with mankind's activities.... The Great Global-warming Crackup Ever since the failure of the global warming conference in Copenhagen in 2009, in the aftermath of 'Climategate' many pundits have written of the demise of the global warming crusade, but the movement is not over yet.... House Takes Up EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases The House is expected to begin debate today on H.R. 910, a bill that would prohibit the EPA Administrator from regulating greenhouse gases to address climate change.... Source: www.jbs.org/issues-pages/environment   ©2007-2011, www.TheCitizensWhoCare.org/jbs-environment.html or http://bit.ly/qlKvca