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Obama’s Climate Plan: Kill Birds and Bats by the Hundreds of Millions
Opinion -A newly published peer-reviewed study reports U.S. wind turbines kill 1.4 million birds and bats every year, even while producing just 3 percent of U.S. electricity. -
President Obama’s Climate Plan Would Kill Hundreds Of Millions Of Birds And Bats
Opinion -A newly published peer-reviewed study reports U.S. wind turbines kill 1.4 million birds and bats every year, even while producing just 3 percent of U.S. electricity. -
U.S. Wind Turbines Kill 1.4 Million Birds and Bats Every Year
Opinion -Wind turbines in the United States kill 1.4 million birds and bats each year, according to a new peer-reviewed study. Even though wind power generates only 3 percent of U.S. -
Mindless ‘Green’ Indoctrination of Children
Opinion -“We’re from the Earth Guardians group, and we’re working on fracking and how it’s going to affect our future and our health. So we wrote this song for all the gas companies that are putting their profits ahead of our future. -
Movie Review: Greenie Lying Bastards
Opinion -Pathetic and desperate. There’s no other way to describe the new “we hate-industry” movie, Greedy Lying Bastards. -
Oregon Officials Propose Killing Birds to Protect Salmon
Opinion -Oregon Fish and Wildlife officials are seeking federal approval to kill protected marine birds to protect juvenile salmon. Harassment Not WorkingIn an April 5 letter to the U.S. -
Gingrich Calls for Congress to Investigate Justice Department over Bird Kills
Opinion -Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is requesting a congressional investigation into why the Justice Department is imposing a double standard on bird kills regarding wind power producers versus oil and natural gas producers. -
Whooping Cranes Wintering in North Carolina for First Time
Opinion -Whooping cranes, among the rarest species in the world, are extending their range into North Carolina, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports. Observers report—and U.S. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Friday Court Ruling on Cape Wind Project
Opinion -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday handed down a ruling that sets back the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts. -
Record Number of Sea Turtles Counted in Texas
Opinion -A record number of nests of endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles have been counted along the Texas Gulf Coast this year, putting to rest fears that last year’s BP Gulf oil spill would further jeopardize the endangered turtles. -
Forest Stewardship Council Busted for Hypocrisy
Opinion -The Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) promotes itself as the “gold-standard for responsible forest management. -
Facts Contradict Alarmist Global Warming Assertions
Opinion -In a pair of recent editorials claiming humans are causing a global warming crisis, Ben Bova of the Naples Daily News disparages mere “assertions” while saying people need to rely on “observable, measurable facts. -
Timber Companies Exonerated, Barred Owls Blamed for Spotted Owl Decline
Opinion -Environmentalists are quick to lecture the rest of us about the ways of nature. Don't clean the dead trees off the forest floor; they're natural. Cattle and horses on the range aren't native, so let the grizzlies and wolves devour them; it's natural. -
Florida Commission Upgrades Manatee Status
Opinion -In response to successful efforts in recent years to protect and expand the state's manatee population, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on November 10 released a draft management plan overseeing the reclassification of manatees from -
Conservancy Criticized by Senate Committee
Opinion -The Nature Conservancy must make a firm commitment to ending recent abuses that have called into question its compliance with federal laws bestowing economic favor on charities, concluded a U.S. Senate Finance Committee report issued June 7. -
Environmentalist Propaganda for Kids
Opinion -The Future of the Earth: An Introduction to Sustainable Development for Young Readers, by Yann Arthur-Bertrand ($16.95, cloth, 76 pages; Harry N. Abrams Inc. -
Environmental Group Files Suit Against California Wind Farm
Opinion -Citing the slaughter of thousands of birds each year at the Altamont Pass, California wind farm, the San Francisco-based Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a lawsuit in the Alameda County Superior Court November 1 seeking to halt or -
Renewable Energy Mandates Raise Prices and Cost States Jobs
Opinion -After repeatedly failing to convince the Colorado legislature to enact a renewable energy mandate, anti-fossil fuel activists have succeeded in placing such a mandate on the November ballot. -
Suburban Development Benefits Wildlife
Opinion -A decade ago, who would have thought New Jersey would host a black bear hunt--the first in 33 years? Or that Virginia, whose population of bald eagles was once down to 32 breeding pairs, would have 329 known active bald eagle nests? -
Science Rejects Anti-Pesticide Claims
Opinion -Public health officials across the country are considering widespread spraying of pesticides to control the mosquito-borne West Nile virus. -
Is Recycling Worth Doing Or Is It A Waste?
Opinion -HEARTLAND IN PRINT Tampa Tribune and Times Tampa, Florida June 29, 2003 circ. 302,417 Two decades ago the government of Michigan determined that it had a major problem--besides Detroit--and that something had to be done. -
Government land acquisition: Socialism by a landslide
Opinion -If put to a vote, Americans would likely reject socialism by a substantial majority. -
Interior Department streamlines Everglades restoration
Opinion -Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced on November 6 that she is closing the Office of Everglades Restoration in West Palm Beach, Florida, in order to streamline the federal bureaucracy and steer more money directly to Everglades restoration. -
Mayor says Seattle will implement Kyoto Protocol
Opinion -Seattle Mayor Paul Schell announced at a July 24 press conference that his city would abide by the Kyoto Protocol, whether or not the U.S. government does.
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