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Bird Conservancy Seeks Enforceable Wind Turbine Standards
Opinion -The American Bird Conservancy has filed a 100-page petition with the U.S. -
Wind Power Environmental Concerns
Opinion -Grassroots environmental groups, such as Save Western Ohio, are expressing serious concerns about the negative environmental impacts of wind power. The groups emphasize several worries:• According to the U.S. -
Wisconsin DNR Rejects New Restrictions on Mining Frack Sand
Opinion -Wisconsin state environmental officials say they have no plans to impose new restrictions on the mining of sand for use in hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas. -
Wind Turbine Ban Proposed in Virginia
Opinion -Floyd County, Virginia is considering banning structures taller than 40 feet on ridges within the county. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to House Effort to Repeal Light Bulb Ban
Opinion -House Republicans have folded into the omnibus spending bill that will soon cross Obama's desk a rider that will block the ban on incandescent light bulbs through September 2012. -
America’s Energy Future is Bright, If Government Doesn’t Shut It Down
Opinion -With the exception of our declining public education system, the single greatest obstacle to our nation’s future economic growth is a near-total lack of understanding of our vast energy resources. -
Government Insurance Is a Bad Investment
Opinion -It seems everyone is getting on the smaller-government bandwagon these days. Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Ron Paul say they want to eliminate the departments of Energy and Education. -
New Temperature Study Misses the Point
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #28The mainstream media has been spiking the football in the proverbial end zone ever since a paper released October 21 claimed two-thirds of global temperature stations show some warming occurred during the past century. -
SoCal Water Agencies Sue Feds over Sucker Fish
Opinion -Twelve Southern California water agencies are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for expanding critical habitat areas for the Santa Ana sucker fish. -
Sea Otters Ignore Government’s “No-Otter” Zone
Opinion -The federal government has a longstanding “no-otter” zone off the coast of Southern California, but the feds apparently forgot to tell the sea otters. Despite their best efforts to keep sea otters away from coastal waters between the U.S. -
Forestry Advocacy Group Violates Own Standards, Harms Minorities
Opinion -The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) has released a report revealing the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is using endangered tropical species in its paper products, contradicting the organization’s claim it is the “gold-standard for responsible forest -
Federal Officials Investigate Wind Farm Eagle Deaths
Opinion -Federal wildlife officials are investigating the deaths of at least six golden eagles at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Pine Tree Wind project 100 miles north of the city. -
Golden Eagles’ Survival Threatened by California Wind Turbines
Opinion -The golden eagle population in California’s Alameda County is facing unsustainable pressure from industrial wind turbines in Altamont Pass, state officials report. -
Lizard Controversy in West Texas, New Mexico Oil Patch
Opinion -With the price of gasoline soaring at the pump, a three-inch-long, sand-dwelling lizard threatens one of the nation’s most prolific oil-producing regions.The dunes sagebrush lizard may soon be added to the U.S. -
Conservation Group, Native Americans Challenge Solar Power Project
Opinion -A nonprofit conservation group and a Native American cultural group have sued the federal government, claiming officials illegally rushed approval of a major solar power project in California’s Mojave Desert. -
New York Members of Congress Challenge EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Rules
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s imposition of new restrictions on nutrient and sediment runoff into the Chesapeake Bay watershed is causing a storm of protest among New York’s primarily Democratic Congressional delegation. -
Voters Rebuke Environmental Extremism in Oberstar Defeat
Opinion -In a powerful rebuke of environmental extremism and a proposed law that would enable the U.S. -
Governor Otter Pulls Idaho Out of ESA Wolf Programs
Opinion -Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has returned grey wolf management to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, no longer willing to act as a “designated agent” for the federal government after negotiations failed to reestablish legal hunts in the state. -
Secret BLM Meetings Cause Uproar in Wyoming
Opinion -Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) is leading a bipartisan challenge against the secretive nature of bureaucratic planning regarding federal lands in the state. The U.S. -
Florida Denied More Water from Georgia’s Lake Lanier
Opinion -The state of Florida’s concerns about Gulf sturgeon and two mussel species do not entitle the state to a greater share of water from a north Georgia dam, a federal judge has ruled. -
Alaska Challenges Obama’s Polar Bear Habitat Designation
Opinion -Alaska state officials are objecting to the Obama administration’s decision to list more than 187,000 square miles—almost the entire U.S. polar bear population’s range—as critical habitat. -
Research & Commentary: Health Care Reform May Kill HSAs
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The question keeps coming up from concerned citizens: “Under President Barack Obama’s new health care regime, what’s going to happen to my health savings account (HSA)? -
Bipartisan Coalition Opposes Solar Power Farms
Opinion -Solar power complexes are on the defensive in the Desert Southwest as key Democrats and Republicans are uniting in opposition.Feinstein Introduces Conservation BillSen. -
Judge Halts West Virginia Wind Farm to Save Bats
Opinion -The wind power industry has suffered a setback as U.S. District Judge Roger Titus has ruled wind turbines under construction on a mountain ridge in West Virginia would kill and injure thousands of endangered Indiana bats.
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