by Jane Richey | Jan 22, 2014 | Agenda 21
Oil shipments on Wednesday began to flow through Keystone XL’s southern leg. TransCanada announced the start of oil deliveries to Gulf Coast refineries on Wednesday morning. The shipments run from Cushing, Okla. to Nederland, Texas. While not as controversial as...
by Jane Richey | Jun 2, 2013 | Agenda 21, Politics
Environmental lobbyists are pressing President Obama to turn more western lands into national monuments to prevent oil-and-gas companies from drilling there. The Sierra Club is leading the charge and is sweetening its message with political sugar, saying Obama could...
by Jane Richey | Feb 8, 2013 | Agenda 21
Sally Jewell, the woman President Barack Obama has nominated to be the next Secretary of the Interior, said in a 2007 interview that she was “not proud of our employee commuting footprint” during her time at the helm of outdoor retailer REI. “Is there anything you’re...
by Jane Richey | Jul 16, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
From PoliticsPA: The Sierra Club has launched a new television ad in the Scranton media market criticizing Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Luzerne) for the failure to act on the renewal of the production tax credit for wind energy. The production tax credit provides support for...
by Jane Richey | Jun 14, 2012 | Free Markets
Efforts by environmentalists to block an interstate natural gas pipeline project in northeastern Pennsylvania have been rejected by a federal appeals court. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that federal regulators properly...