London’s Daily Express reports this morning on what Western Tradition Partnership has been telling Americans for three years — the “green” agenda is based on an anti-scientific hoax.

“The Obama administration has riled up environmental groups by siding with big utilities in a lawsuit over whether states can sue power plant operators for contributing to climate change,” The Wall Street Journal reports today.

“We are appalled,” David Doniger, policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s climate center, tells the Journal.

Has Obama finally seen the light and realized his radical green agenda is largely responsible for destroying our economy?

Not in the least.

In court filings, Obama is fighting the radical greens’ attempt to sue away America’s power plants for one simple reason — he’s already sicced the EPA on America’s employers, including power plants.

“It isn’t that the Obama administration is in favor of unfettered emissions. The Department of Justice brief, filed with the Supreme Court this week, says the Environmental Protection Agency is already on the job, and doesn’t need help from private plaintiffs,” the Journal reports.

“EPA has already begun taking actions to address carbon-dioxide emissions,” a brief filed by Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal says.

In other words, “thanks for the help destroying jobs, but Obama’s already on this one.”

Imposing billions in new energy taxes on Americans is still one of Barack Obama’s top priorities.  But even the staunchly radical green White House is dodging Americans’ heated opposition to the national energy tax.  

Washington Examiner editor Mark Tapscott has the story:

“The White House has recently revised its energy and environment website, stripping references to a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases and a pledge to funnel $150 billion into clean energy research. Gone from the site is a section titled ‘Closing the Carbon Loophole and Cracking Down on Polluters,’” reports Energy & Environment…  

“…The trade publication cited a firm that tracks web site changes to suggest that those pages on the White House web site were likely removed sometime around June 23…  

“…The updated site also omits a pledge from President Obama to invest $150 billion in clean energy research and development over 10 years. That may be because the White House won’t have a way to fund the commitment; Obama’s 2010 budget slated $120 billion from cap-and-trade climate revenue toward clean energy technologies. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/White-House-web-site-has-a-disappearing-Cap-and-Trade-Act–101169889.html#ixzz0xTIiYy8d

Undeterred by the fact Congress will not authorize him to shut down the nation’s coal-fired power plants, as he promised to do on the campaign trail when he vowed to “bankrupt” the coal industry, Barack Obama’s EPA will begin simply making up their own rules on carbon dioxide.  On the chopping block — the power plants that supply your home with affordable energy.

“EPA is preparing to tighten restrictions on interstate air pollution from power plants under its planned ‘transport’ rule. It will open a second front when it regulates greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired generators, based on its endangerment finding on the threat posed by man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” The New York Times reports this morning.

The Obama administration is also using the lack of federal rules on so-called “greenhouse gasses” to issue their own intentionally draconian rules in a cruel bid to shut down power plants, forcing Congress to adopting jo-killing rules Americans don’t want – which isn’t much different than the Mafia torching a restaurant to bully its owners into paying protection money.

“NARUC is united that the uncertainty in Congress is hurting state regulatory commissions, and for that reason, we are supporting federal climate legislation to remove those uncertainties,” said Ron Binz, spokesman for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, a group representing bureaucrats.

Yes, bureaucrats argue the “uncertainty” of not having free reign to impose national energy taxes and “caps” on carbon dioxide is worse than the crippling economic harms, thousands of dollars per family in higher prices for good and services and as many as 5.1 million jobs lost each year.

Well, WTP has a solution.  Eliminate the “uncertainty” by making the EPA’s powers clear.  WTP supports legislation stripping the radical greens’ federally-authorized goon squad of the authority to issue their own rules.  Federal regulations affecting civilians should never be created and enforced by unelected bureaucrats, but only by a recorded, stand-alone, affirmative vote of Congress.

You want certainty?  Strip federal regulators of any authority to police carbon dioxde.  That’s the kind of certainty our economy, our jobs, our property and our freedoms can live with.

Read the full New York Times article by clicking here.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 2, 2010
Contact: Donny Ferguson, donny.f@westerntradition.org or 703-200-3669

WTP challenges lawmakers to oppose lame duck energy tax plan – in writing
Written pledge faxed to every House, Senate office with Sept. 10 deadline

WASHINGTON — America’s largest grassroots advocate of property rights and sensible environmental policies has sent every member of Congress a written pledge committing them to oppose a plan by congressional leaders to use a “lame duck” session of Congress to impose a national energy tax.  Senators and representatives have until Sept. 10 to sign and return it.

“If Congress thinks Americans were angry about ‘deem and pass,’ just wait until WTP tells their constituents about the lame duck national energy tax plan.  American overwhelmingly oppose Barack Obama’s national energy tax, and they’ll hold accountable any lawmaker who goes along with plans to wait until after the election to use legislative tricks to impose one.  Any effort to impose a national energy tax during a lame duck session doesn’t just damage our economy, it damages what little trust Americans have for their lawmakers in the next few months,” said Donny Ferguson, Western Tradition Partnership Executive Director.

“Lawmakers have a duty to give their word, in writing, that they answer to their constituents and not Barack Obama’s radical green agenda,” said Ferguson.  “Between now and the lame duck session WTP will hold accountable lawmakers who refuse to return their pledge, by speaking directly to their constituents.”

WTP’s “’No Cap and Tax’ Lame Duck Pledge” was faxed to every House and Senate office beginning Friday.  Senators and representatives are asked to give their written promise to oppose proposed efforts to wait until after the November elections to impose a national energy tax plan.

The pledge reads: “I (name of lawmaker) pledge I will oppose any and all efforts to impose any form of cap, price, limit or tax on carbon or other so-called ‘greenhouse gases,’ including all procedural votes and motions, in any ‘lame duck’ session of Congress.”

Numerous experts and media outlets report Democrat leaders like Rep. Henry Waxman will take advantage of a conference committee that will hammer out differences between House and Senate energy bills to insert a national energy tax the Senate did not approve.  John Fund of The Wall Street Journal, for example, writes Obama “wants to pass a modest energy bill this summer, then add carbon taxes or regulations in a conference committee with the House, most likely during a lame-duck session.”

Supported by grassroots members, WTP is a fast-growing, grassroots-supported non-profit organization dedicated to fighting environmental extremism and promoting responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources.  The citizens’ group educates the public and lobbies legislators on issues of environmental extremism and promotes responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources.

For more information on WTP, go to http://www.westerntradition.org.  For more information on this issue, or to schedule an interview, contact Executive Director Donny Ferguson at 703-200-3669 or at donny.f@westerntradition.org.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Contact: Donny Ferguson, donny.f@westerntradition.org or 703-200-3669

Public opposition to Kagan’s radical green views fuels near-historic low approval ratings
Polling data show Kagan’s support mirrors that of SCOTUS flop Harriet Miers

WASHINGTON — Public support for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is among the lowest ever recorded for a potential justice, a disturbing lack of faith fueled by national opposition to President Barack Obama’s radical green policies, the nation’s largest grassroots opponent of environmental extremism noted Tuesday.

“With economic recovery long overdue and delayed by Obama’s radical policies, Americans do not want an activist like Kagan on the Court whose job is to enforce the ‘green’ belief that American prosperity is a threat that needs to be eliminated,” said Donny Ferguson, Executive Director of Western Tradition Partnership.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Kagan’s nomination Tuesday by a 13-6 vote, with “cap and trade” advocate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) joining the panel’s Democrats.

A Gallup poll released July 15 shows public support for Kagan’s nomination stands at just 44 percent.  Only Robert Bork (38 percent) and Harriet Miers (42 percent) recorded lower approval than Kagan.  Bork’s nomination was defeated and Miers’ was withdrawn.  Gallup cites historical ratings showing public support for a Supreme Court nominee virtually never increases, but opposition usually grows.

“It’s no coincidence Harriet Miers and Elena Kagan are identical twins when it comes to approval ratings.  One was an unqualified presidential crony whose only purpose on the Court would have been to enforce the president’s personal views.  The other was Harriet Miers,” said Ferguson.  “Elena Kagan is being sent to the Supreme Court with marching orders.  ‘Use your lifetime appointment to impose a job-killing Cap and Tax system, give the EPA unquestioned authority and kill any constitutional challenges to radical green authority.’”

“Americans know the radical green agenda calls for the downsizing of American prosperity and our standard of living and they’re angry Obama is actively working to make a bad economy even worse.  Americans aren’t supporting Obama’s pick because they know her job is to eliminate theirs,” said Ferguson.

As president of Harvard University, Kagan created the school’s “environmental law” program.  “She left a nationally visible mark on environmental law at Harvard,” Jim Rossi, a visiting environmental law professor at Harvard, told The New York Times upon her Solicitor General nomination last year. “For many years, Harvard was not known for a primary expertise in the environmental jurisprudence, and that changed under Dean Kagan’s watch.”

The Times reported “expanding regulatory enforcement of wetlands under the Clean Water Act and broadening the applicability of the Endangered Species Act to include the effects of climate change” may be at the top of her agenda.

“Under Kagan, we are likely to see the government take a less hostile approach to environmental enforcement,” a jubilant Matt Kenna of the Western Environmental Center told the Times. 

“If confirmed, Kagan would be the first successful nominee in recent years whose nomination was backed by less than a majority of Americans in the final poll before the Senate confirmation vote (or, in the case of Harriet Miers, before her nomination was withdrawn),” Gallup notes.

Supported by grassroots members, WTP is a fast-growing, grassroots-supported non-profit organization dedicated to fighting environmental extremism and promoting responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources.  The citizens’ group educates the public and lobbies legislators on issues of environmental extremism and promoting responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources.

For more information, go to http://www.westerntradition.org.  For more information on this issue, or to schedule an interview, contact Donny Ferguson at 703-200-3669 or at donny.f@westerntradition.org.

Link to Gallup poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/141329/Americans-Favor-Confirming-Kagan-High-Court.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_term=USA

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