Supreme Court Vindicates Cornwall Alliance on Mercury Emissions

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Monday, July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the law by imposing regulations on mercury emissions from power plants without first doing thorough benefit/cost estimates. Nearly four years ago the Cornwall Alliance published a study by environmental regulatory economics Dr. Timothy Terrell, The Cost of Good Intentions: […]

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World Magazine Exposes Evangelical Environmentalists’ Growing Dependence on Green-Left Funding

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Many environmentalists are fond of accusing all critics of their alarms of being in the pocket of industry. World magazine has just turned the tables. In a three-page article, World environment reporter Daniel James Devine reports that evangelical “creation care” organizations like the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), its daughter organization Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA), and

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Why One Conservative, Evangelical Republican’s Case for Climate Alarm Fails—Part 2

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Yesterday I began a multi-part critique of a recent blog post by Evangelical Environmental Network board chairman Scott Rodin titled “As a Conservative, Evangelical Republican, Why Climate Change Can’t Be True (Even Though It Is).” In that piece I pointed out that scientific data point the opposite direction from where Rodin thinks they do. I also

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Why One Conservative, Evangelical Republican’s Case for Climate Alarm Fails—Part 1

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Dr. Scott Rodin, chairman of the board of the Evangelical Environmental Network and a blogger at The Steward’s Journey, posted a piece May 19, 2015, titled, “As a Conservative, Evangelical Republican, Why Climate Change Can’t be True (Even Though It Is).” It has some very interesting reasoning and deserves careful consideration. In this and several

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Oppressing the Poor In the Name of Fighting Global Warming

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“No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.” So said President Barack Obama in his State of the Union message last week. That he spent under 5% of the speech on the subject—about one-ninth as much as on the economy, one-fifth as much as on our need to overcome cynicism, and

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Evangelical Environmentalists Undermine Pro-Life Movement, Again

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About two years ago over 30 of the nation’s pro-life leaders issued an official statement against an environmental campaign spearheaded by the Evangelical Environmental Network calling mercury regulations “pro-life.” Instead of correcting its claims, EEN doubled down and expanded them, further obscuring the meaning of “pro-life” and diluting its usefulness to identify people working to end abortion

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Is Fighting Global Warming a “Pro-Life” Issue and Necessary to Shield Florida from “Extreme Weather”? No, Says Former National Hurricane Center Director Neil Frank

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Alerted that the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) had launched a campaign to pressure Florida Governor Rick Scott to take steps to combat global warming in order to protect Florida from extreme weather, calling it a “pro-life” issue, former National Hurricane Center Director Dr. Neil Frank, a pro-life evangelical himself, sent off  a highly critical letter of

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Familiar Environmental Deceit Threatens Pro-Life Movement Again

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The United States pro-life movement (also known as the United States anti-abortion movement or the United States right-to-life movement) is a social and political movement in the United States opposing on moral or sectarian grounds elective abortion and usually supporting its legal prohibition or restriction.” So begins the Wikipedia article on “United States pro-life movement.” Nonetheless, as it did on mercury emissions from power plants,

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EEN President Hescox Attacks Cornwall’s Beisner Using Straw Man and Misunderstood Evidence

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  Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) President and CEO Rev. Mitch Hescox introduced a blog piece November 27, 2012, titled “My Meeting with Brother Cal,” by saying, “Christian leaders making misstatements to serve their own ends, attacking other believers for not agreeing with their worldview, and misusing science turn people away from the good news in Jesus.” In

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Are Mercury Emissions as Evil as Abortion? Somebody Wants Voters to Think So

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Green group’s notion of pro-life comes straight from Alice in Wonderland “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”—Humpty Dumpty How do you turn politicians with 100% pro-abortion voting records into pro-lifers? The old-fashioned way would have been to persuade them that killing babies in their mothers’ wombs

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