Paul Driessen's Past Articles

172 articles

Saving lives in the Middle East

published: January 05, 2015

Yazidi and other Christian communities trace their Syrian and Iraqi roots back nearly 2,000 years. Now they are being systematically exterminated. Not merely driven out. Exterminated – along ...

Google goes off the climate change deep end

published: December 29, 2014

In a recent interview with National Public Radio host Diane Rehm, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said his company “has a very strong view that we should make decisions in politics based on fact...

EPA’s next regulatory tsunami

published: November 23, 2014

Looming Environmental Protection Agency ozone regulations personify the Obama administration’s secrecy, collusion, fraud, and disdain for concerns about the effects that its tsunami of regula...

Jobs, prosperity and security via oil exports

published: November 16, 2014

The midterm elections underscore how much Americans value energy, job and economic revival – and how much they want less Washington control of their lives, livelihoods, and dreams for their c...

The Obama war on pipelines

published: November 09, 2014

“This is not the same industry we had 15 years ago,” Natural Gas Supply Association VP Jennifer Fordham said recently. That’s an understatement. The oil, petrochemical and manufac...

It’s rarely about the environment anymore

published: October 27, 2014

Back in 1970, when I got involved in the first Earth Day and nascent environmental movement, we had real pollution problems. But over time, new laws, regulations, attitudes and technologies cleaned...

Curbing Obama power grabs

published: October 27, 2014

You’ve got to admire the sheer audacity: Democratic Senator Mark Begich telling Alaska voters that he stood up to President Obama and fought for oil drilling and jobs in his state. Maybe he h...

We need some regulatory patriotism!

published: October 26, 2014

“My policies are on the ballot, every single one of them,” he reminded voters on October 2.   It’s no mystery why American companies have stockpiled over $2 trillion of ove...

RFK, Jr. wants me jailed … as a war criminal!

published: October 12, 2014

The “people’s climate march” was notable for the amazing energy, economic and climate illiteracy displayed by the mostly young people parading along New York City streets Septembe...

Breaking Russia’s energy stranglehold

published: October 12, 2014

European Union nations want to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine and providing the missiles that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. However, they are worried ab...

Protect the poor – from climate change policies

published: October 12, 2014

In a more rational, moral, compassionate, scientifically literate world, this Cornwall declaration would not be needed. It assesses the “far-reaching, costly policies” that the world&rs...;

What really drives anti-fracking zealots?

published: October 05, 2014

Recent news stories underscore the tremendous benefits brought by America’s fracking revolution. * The shale oil production boom could boost US crude production to 9.5 million barrels of oil...

EPA’s phony “environmental justice” caper

published: September 21, 2014

When it comes to energy, climate change, justice and transparency, the Obama Administration and its Environmental Protection Agency want it every possible way. Their only consistency is their doubl...

Obama AWOL again – on energy terrorism

published: September 06, 2014

Four news stories in four days sum up the Obama presidency and help explain why the world and U.S. economy are in such a mess. President Obama just returned from his two-week beach and golf vacatio...

Trampling on Coal Country families

published: August 25, 2014

Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth’s perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as ...

“Climate-smart” policies for Africa are stupid, and immoral

published: August 25, 2014

The 2014 US-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by President Obama this past week brought together the largest-ever gathering of African government officials in Washington, DC. They discussed ways to bols...

The hidden “persuaders” of the environmentalist elite

published: August 11, 2014

America’s Big Green environmental agenda is set by elite foundations that decide which activists get the money. They form “affinity groups” to collude with President Obama’s...

Who’s really waging the ‘war on science’?

published: August 11, 2014

Left-leaning environmentalists, media and academics have long railed against the alleged conservative “war on science.” They augment this vitriol with substantial money, books, document...

Killing marine life with ethanol

published: July 28, 2014

Ethanol and other biofuel mandates and subsidies got started when politicians bought into claims that we are rapidly depleting our petroleum, and fossil-fuel-driven global warming is boiling the pl...

Greenpeace showcases its anti-human side

published: July 21, 2014

It was a surreal experience. As the Heartland Institute’s hugely successful Ninth International Conference on Climate Change ended, I agreed to let Greenpeace activist Connor Gibson intervie...

Holding Greenpeace accountable

published: July 07, 2014

Fossil fuel and insurance company executives “could face personal liability for funding climate denialism and opposing policies to fight climate change,” Greenpeace recently warned seve...

Breaking EPA’s climate science secrecy barriers

published: July 06, 2014

Can you imagine telling the IRS you don’t need to complete all their forms or provide records to back up your claim for a tax refund? Or saying your company’s assurances that its medica...

Executive fiats in the other Washington

published: June 22, 2014

Progressives believe in free speech, robust debate, sound science and economics, transparency, government by the people and especially compassion for the poor – except when they don’t. ...

Fixing our dictatorial EPA

published: June 22, 2014

Last year, Congress enacted 72 new laws and federal agencies promulgated 3,659 new rules, imposing $1.86 trillion in annual regulatory compliance costs on American businesses and families. It&rsquo...;

Hollywood’s hydrocarbon hypocrisy

published: June 16, 2014

Several Hollywood elites were recently caught red-handed on videotape, agreeing to take money from a Middle Eastern oil sheikh for another anti-fracking movie. Their actions were shameful, but they...