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Environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer, a vocal opponent of the Keystone XL pipeline – and any Democrats who support it – hosted a $2,700-per-person fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at his San Francisco home, riling some green activists, Politico reports. Though Clinton has avoided public comment while the Obama administration weighs the fate of the pipeline, as secretary of state, she presided over studies that said the pipeline would pose few environmental risks – and even said in 2010 the administration was "inclined" to support it. "I am not surprised that he would want to get on-board the Clinton train, but I'm...

Wildlife biologists are proposing to shoot hundreds or even thousands of Pacific Northwest barred owls as a way to protect the endangered Northern spotted owl. Barred owls are larger, more aggressive and have been taking over spotted owl territory for the past 20 years. The proposal to shoot barred owls is part of a federal spotted owl recovery plan that will be released soon. Whether to intervene in what some see as a natural competition between species is a matter of hot debate among biologists, conservationists and the timber industry, which argues that we've set aside huge chunks of habitat...

Now that the socialists are gaining control of the world's largest economies, with promises of free this and stable that and entitlements to the other, it might be wise for us to ask "at what cost?" The views of a guy likeJonathan Porrit, of the UK's Sustainable Development Commission, can give us a preview of the direction in which government policies are inevitably driven in a socialist state.

How long does it take for one liberal to notice the difference between fiction and reality? Apparently 10 years or so. The Evil Conservative is pleased to see that maybe not all liberals are so emotionally invested in envirofascism as to deny reality. Well, at least one isn't. Libs waking up to the hyperbolic and unfounded assertions of the enviro-fascists? In an article carried in, of all places, the Huffington Post, Harold Ambler may be the first liberal to notice a decade of cooling temperatures on Planet Earth.