Lawsuits likely after NM county passes ban on oil and gas drilling

By   /  May 6, 2013  /  Energy, Environment, Environmental, Featured, Local Government, National, New Mexico, News  /  1 Comment

Commissioners in a rural part of the state have approved the only countywide ordinance in the nation specifically prohibiting all oil and gas drilling.

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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  /  5 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  /  14 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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McAuliffe car co. parent in off-shore tax shelter

By   /  April 29, 2013  /  Environmental, Featured, Immigration, National, National News, News, Virginia  /  168 Comments

Bill Clinton, Haley Barbour, Terry McAuliffe

The parent company of a “green” car venture with ties to the Obama Administration and Democratic Party leader Terry McAuliffe is incorporated in the tax shelter country of the British Virgin Islands, Watchdog has learned.

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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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