People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.

The NRDC 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.

President Joe Biden made a speech saying America will need 400% to 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 Natural Resources Defense Council 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 Environmental Protection Agency 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........

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