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Harassing Energy: The Latest in Climate Litigation (EID’s Allison nails it)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 13, 2020

This post by William Allison, After Multiple Failed Efforts, Climate Litigation Campaign Tries a New Strategy and Branding, part of the Energy In Depth climate and environment project, updates the latest in a failing, pernicious anti-energy strategy. The shame is that the same funders and activists should support mineral energies, not economically inferior and environmentally damaging wind turbines and solar arrays. Mr. Allison’s 1,500-word post follows.

“It’s been a whirlwind few years for supporters of the climate litigation campaign, who have spent untold millions of dollars and don’t have much to show for it. Multiple strategies have been employed with each running into trouble.”

After a bruising defeat in New York state court late last year, supporters of climate litigation have finally ramped back up with new legal strategies and new branding.…

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Jerry Taylor’s Warning Against Al Gore Applies to Harris/Biden too

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 12, 2020

Gore calls our consumption habits an “addiction.” Civilization is termed clinically “dysfunctional.” His opponents are in psychological “denial.” The politically ambivalent electorate has grown psychologically numb in order to “anesthetize their conscience.” Businessmen and politicians are called “enablers.” In sum, society is sick, and only a therapist in chief can cure it. Stuart Smalley, meet the Unabomber. (Jerry Taylor, below)

Back in April 2000, Jerry Taylor, director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute, penned a short piece, “Gore’s Earth Day Message.” With Joe Biden and particularly president-in-waiting Kamala Harris all-in with the Green New Deal’s societal transformation in the name of climate change, Taylor’s warnings are timely. Only the politician’s name has changed.

GORE’S EARTH DAY MESSAGE

Thirty years ago, Earth Day transformed environmental radicalism into a mainstream phenomenon.…

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“Power the Future” (new pro-worker group joins consumer, taxpayer energy groups)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 11, 2020

“We are the voice of energy workers pushing back on radical green groups and the ideologues who fund them.”

In February 2018, the 501c4 advocacy group Power the Future joined the energy-policy fray on the side of consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral energies. Think oil and gas in particular. Coal too.

By way of introduction, I have copied material from their website for interested readers.

What We Believe

Four pillars:

  • America is blessed with abundant and reliable energy sources that have been the lifeblood of our national advancement and prosperity.
  • We must be generous stewards of our environment for this and future generations.
  • Sharing facts (about energy policies, organizations and activists) creates a better-informed population.
  • We can have the highest quality of life and the cleanest, most cared for environment.

The Means

We carry out these beliefs by disseminating research, sharing facts and truths, engaging at the local level and interacting with the media.

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Shell vs. Petroleum: Statism at the Pump

By Robert Bradley Jr. --
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California Water Efficiency Standards: Peter Gleick vs. Trump

By -- August 10, 2020
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Physical Climate Science NOW Settled? (Dessler says yes)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 6, 2020
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Spanish Renewable Giant Iberdrola Enters Texas with a Thud

By -- August 5, 2020
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Biden’s 2-Trillion Dollar Blunder Imperils Economic Recovery

By Vijay Jayaraj -- August 4, 2020
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Trump: “Restoring US Energy Dominance” (Excerpts from July 29, 2020 speech)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 3, 2020
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Health Effects of Industrial Wind: The Debate Intensifies (update with Steven Cooper)

By Sherri Lange -- July 30, 2020
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