Climate skeptics view environmental activism as greater threat than global warming

By   /  May 6, 2013  /  Alaska, California, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Featured, Federal Government, Foreign News & Policy, National, National News, Regulations  /  6 Comments

Rising sea level a security threat?

Not only can you “actually see Russia” from some parts of Alaska, but you may also see the wrong end of a missile launched from North Korea.

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Earth Day postmark stirs up wind opponents

By   /  April 30, 2013  /  Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Federal Government, Global warming/climate change, Minnesota, Washington  /  16 Comments

Earth Day postmark raises questions and controversy.

By Tom Steward  | Watchdog Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — You don’t have to be a stamp collector to notice something different about some of your snail mail lately.
The cancellation mark rolling over the stamp on many envelopes consists of four stick-like towers and a shimmering sun over an ink-blotted tag line for “Earth Day 2013”.
The seemingly innocuous US [...]

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Barack Obama’s GreenTech connection: Rick Wade

By   /  April 24, 2013  /  Energy, Environment, Environmental, National News, Virginia  /  1 Comment

Barack Obama

Part 9 of 20 in the series Terry McAuliffe, gubernatorial candidate and carmogul

By Tori Richards | Watchdog.org
Rick C. Wade is an exceptionally busy man.  
The former Obama cabinet official helped run the president’s latest campaign while simultaneously serving as a Democratic Party executive and vice president of GreenTech Automotive, the “green car” company owned by [...]

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Last gasp for controversial Minnesota wind farm?

By   /  April 23, 2013  /  Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Featured, Minnesota, News, Private property rights  /  3 Comments

On or Off? Opponents say this $1.3 million wind power switching station may never go on line.

By Tom Steward | Minnesota Watchdog
GOODHUE COUNTY – A letter from the owner of a proposed wind farm to regulators shows his frustration in the permitting process and a willingness to sell off assets of his investment.
“New Era has no confidence that due process for this project will ever end, nor that an ABPP (Avian and [...]

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Keystone XL hearing gets raucous

By   /  April 18, 2013  /  Energy, Environmental, Issues, Nebraska, News  /  86 Comments

CROWDED: Opponents easily outnumbered supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline at a Thursday hearing in Grand Island, Neb.

 
By Deena Winter | Nebraska Watchdog
GRAND ISLAND – Hundreds of people flew across the country and traveled icy roads during a spring storm to attend a raucous public hearing in Nebraska on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that would bisect America.
Some got their message across in slam poetry, other used songs and prayer.
Pipeline opponents [...]

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