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Paul Chesser

Paul Chesser publishes CarolinaPlottHound.com, a news aggregator for North Carolina, and is a contributor of articles, research and investigative reports for both national and state-level free-market think tanks.
by | Apr 22, 2011

The New York Times reports today that manufacturers of eco-friendly products have seen their sales decline compared to the products that environoiacs would like to carry mandatory skull-and-crossbones warning labels. The newspaper blames the difficult economy for consumers’ avoidance of…

by | Apr 22, 2011

It depends on which environoia group you ask, as I explain at the National and Legal Policy Center blog.

by | Apr 20, 2011

Losing equipment and hiding records from the public.

by | Apr 15, 2011

Yesterday a dozen liberal and academic (but I repeat myself) groups rose in defense of Penn State Climategate scientist Michael Mann, making up reasons such as “academic freedom” to deny American Tradition Institute‘s request for Mann’s emails and records from…

by | Apr 14, 2011

On Monday Walmart announced it would “reinforce its commitment to lower prices,” and PajamasMedia’s Richard Pollock portrayed it as a departure from the company’s efforts in recent years to cozy up to liberal causes such as Obamacare and “sustainability.” At…

by | Apr 13, 2011

Last week our organization, American Tradition Institute, sued the State of Colorado in federal court because we assert that its Renewable Energy Standard law violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The mandate requires that major utilities in the state…

by | Apr 7, 2011

That’s after I relayed yesterday that the U.S. burns “only” 25 percent of its corn as biofuels, which Associated Press insinuated was no big deal. Now this from the New York Times: Each year, an ever larger portion of the…

by | Apr 6, 2011

Associated Press reports we should not hold farmers or the ethanol industry responsible for rising food prices. There are other contributing factors, such as inflation and fuel costs, but we certainly can also include those heavily subsidized ag-fuelers in the…

by | Apr 4, 2011

More about this later in the week, but today the American Tradition Institute Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit against Colorado that claims the state’s Renewable Energy Standard — which requires major utilities to get 30 percent of their power…

by | Mar 31, 2011

Politico reported yesterday that “it’s not easy being green anymore” and whined, “It’s no secret environmentalists are outgunned when it comes to cash,” as though they are hopelessly losing every political battle. I partially (I say “partially” because there is…

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