JOHN STOSSEL: What Destructive Environmentalists Won’t Say About The Green Revolution
People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.
It claims it uses law “to confront the climate crisis.”
What it really does is pay lawyers to torture people who try to do useful things.
Example: America needs minerals like copper and silver to make things. Even President Joe Biden made a speech saying America will need 400-600% more such minerals to make “solar panels, wind turbines and so much more!”
An iPhone alone requires aluminum, iron, lithium, gold, copper …
But when investors dare try to dig up such minerals in America, the NRDC objects and uses political connections to stop them.
Twenty years ago, entrepreneurs tried to open a mine in Alaska. Before they even got the application in, the EPA vetoed it.
Why? Because groups like the NRDC say the mine “would be a catastrophic threat to the wildlife and … fragile ecosystem.”
They get their way because when Democrats run the EPA, they not only support NRDC’s positions, they even hire NRDC employees.
The next Republican administration removed the EPA’s veto. The Army Corps of Engineers then studied the mine and concluded........
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