Left Attacks California Governor as ‘Big Oil Brown’
As Governor Brown wrestles with the Democrat-run state legislature on how to spend the state’s supposed $3 billion surplus, he is being challenged by California’s powerful environmentalist lobby.
Environment
A Taste of Things to Come for Electricity Consumers and Generators
One year ago, Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, announced the controversial centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s climate change legacy: the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The rule is slated for finalization this summer.
California Water Use Falls Dramatically in April
Californians saved 13.9 percent more water in April as compared with the same month in 2013, a significant improvement over the last several months’ dismal conservation numbers.
President of Vatican Academy Attacks Climate Change Skeptic
In a rare display of diplomatic indecorum, Margaret Archer, the president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, has lashed out at the author of a recent essay, accusing him of hate speech and moral depravity for questioning the Academy’s position on climate change.
CA ‘Green Pot’ Bill: State Water Laws to Apply to Marijuana
A bill currently moving through the California Legislature would ensure that the state’s marijuana growing operations comply with state environmental and water laws.
Timeline Shows How Clintons Took $1.8 Million from Keystone Pipeline Investors
A newly released GAI timeline reveals how Bill Clinton bagged $1.8 million for 10 speeches between Nov. 2008 and mid-2011 funded by one of the largest shareholders in the Keystone XL pipeline, TD Bank, which held a $1.6 billion investment in the deal. During this period, then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton made critical decisions related to the Keystone XL pipeline’s advancement.
Revealed: Clintons Bagged $3.4 Million for 18 Speeches Funded by Keystone Pipeline Banks
Environmentalists’ head-scratching over Hillary Clinton’s refusal to take a hard stand against the Keystone XL pipeline may soon cease, as a Monday Huffington Post report confirms findings in Clinton Cash revealing that the Clintons have bagged millions of dollars in speaking fees from some of the Keystone XL pipeline’s largest investors.
Climate Change Supremo Guilty of Harassment
Former IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri has been found guilty of sexual harassment by an internal committee of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), of which Pachauri was also director general until February of this year. According to the Deccan Chronicle,
Disaster: California’s Sierra Nevada Snowpack Hits 0% of Normal
California’s record drought took a stunning turn for the worse last week: on Thursday, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains officially disappeared.
Oxfam’s Pig Ignorant Support of ‘Decarbonisation’ Will Make the Poor Poorer
“Political institutions always put their own institutional survival first. If they are supposed to help poor people, they promote poverty, to ensure there is a steady supply of poor people who need their help”. These were the words of my
Faulty USGS Sensors Record ‘Ghost’ Earthquakes
Malfunctions in the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) earthquake detection system in Northern California resulted in three false earthquake alarms in the past few days.
San Fernando Valley Pushes Back against High-Speed Rail
In San Fernando, seventy people led by city officials entered an open house meeting led by train officials, erecting their own public address system to voice their anger over the train invading their community. The city officials wanted answers from state officials about the train’s effect on their community.
Double Earthquake Fears Loom in Bay Area
California scientists have recently begun speaking of a nightmare double earthquake scenario where the Hayward and Calaveras faults would trigger each other to make for a combined shaker that would devastate the Golden State. The estimated costs in damages are approximately $300 billion.
Bill Nye: ‘Climate Change’ Needs As Much Discussion As Ferguson, Baltimore
Monday on CNN’s “Newsroom with Carol Costello,” Bill Nye, the so-called “Science Guy” urged American to talk about climate change with the same intensity given to the tragic police involved deaths and resulting riots and social unrest in Ferguson, MO
Rev. Al Sharpton Blames Texas Flooding on God, HVAC
Reverend Al Sharpton has some deep thoughts about the natural disaster that has killed at least 17 people in Texas and Oklahoma in the past week. In a tweet sent out Wednesday, Sharpton wondered whether the disaster was “God’s rebuke” or the result of “climate control.”
Miles of SoCal Beach Closed Due to Mysterious Globs of Oil
Strange black blobs of tar-like goo surged on onto southern California’s Manhattan Beach by the thousands, closing down the two-mile area Wednesday while the U.S. Coast Guard and National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration are investigating the source and substance.
Poll: Drought Has Californians Worried About State’s Future
California’s record drought is dampening residents’ outlook on the future of their state. According to the results of the latest Field Poll, just 40% of registered voters in California believe the state is moving in the right direction, while another 40%
Obama’s Delusional Focus on Global Warming
Nero, allegedly, fiddled while Rome burned. Today we have a Commander in Chief who seems equally unhinged from reality. In a world fraught with Islamic terrorists and muscle-flexing autocratic nations, the enemy on which he is focused is climate change.
500 Protesters Chant in Santa Barbara as Bacteria Munch the Oil Spill
The sad look of south Santa Barbara beaches after the recent oil spill is serving as a backdrop for environmental protesters to advance their causes that have little to do with the ocean’s birds and fish. But as the protesters chanted “End Oil Now!” billions of microscopic bacteria are feasting on the oil that has been on their diet for millenniums.
FLOTUS Praises Obama’s ‘Change’ on LGBT Rights, Climate Change, Race
Monday at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, first lady Michelle Obama took great pride in the “change these past six years” of her husband’s administration when speaking to graduating students. “Think about how just 10 years ago gay marriage was legal in
Another Domino Falls for Anti-Fossil Fuel Crusaders
Throughout the United States, especially in communities with existing or potential oil-and-gas development, outside groups have moved in with a vengeance and agitated the population—resulting in bans against all exploration for hydrocarbons and/or the use of hydraulic fracturing. Expensive lawsuits have been filed and courts have repeatedly declared such bans as “unconstitutional.” The newest domino to fall is in Texas where Governor Greg Abbott, on May 18, signed House Bill 40 (HB40)—also known as the Denton Fracking Bill—which clarifies that an “oil and gas operation is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state. Breitbart Texas reported on the bill’s passage.
Memorial Day for the Left: 500 Anti-GMO Protesters March in San Francisco
While the rest of America took time to celebrate the sacrifices of veterans and their families on Memorial weekend, 500 San Francisco protesters marched against Monsanto Corporation, carrying signs and chanting, “Evil Seed of Corporate Greed.”
Clooney’s ‘Global Warming Shaming’ Movie ‘Tomorrowland’ Bombs at Box Office
Disney’s pricey sci-fi/climate-change-warning film Tomorrowland is bombing at the Memorial Day weekend box office. According to Deadline, the film is projected to earn roughly $32 million over the three-day frame, and just under $40 million once Monday’s Memorial Day box office
Progressive Catholics Organize to Promote Pope Francis’s Climate Change Message
Francis is issuing the encyclical by the end of June with an eye toward the end-of-year U.N. climate change conference in Paris. While previous popes have made strong moral and theological arguments in favor of environmental protection, Francis will be the first to address global warming in such a high-level teaching document
Jaws: Sharks Show Up at SoCal Beach
Police helicopters spotted 13 young great white sharks feeding merely 50 feet from the sands of Sunset Beach this week.
