Colorado legislators are bucking the national trend and considering a
proposal that would boost the state’s renewable portfolio standard
(RPS). The RPS requires utilities to obtain a specified percentage of
their power from intermittent renewable sources by a certain date.
Twenty-two of the 29 states with such mandates in place have considered
changing those laws over the past two years.
Colorado’s current RPS requires cooperatives and their utility
suppliers to get 10 percent of their electricity from renewables by
2020. SB 252 would increase the percentage, mandating 25 percent of
their electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.
Supporters of the RPS say the mandates are necessary to reduce
pollution, will lead to the creation of “green” jobs, and will only
marginally increase electricity prices. However, there is little
evidence the mandate will benefit the environment. Renewable sources
such as wind and solar technologies are intermittent and thus require
fossil fuel generators for backup. Running fossil fuel generators in
this way can emit more pollutants than when used as primary power
sources.
READ MORE: http://heartland.org/policy-documents/research-commentary-colorado-renewable-portfolio-standard
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Research & Commentary: Colorado Renewable Portfolio Standard
Friday, April 26, 2013
The Quiet Gold Rush
On the many splendors of Canada’s tar sands.
Alberta, Canada – While we are sitting on the tarmac waiting interminably for Newark’s permission to take off, the man in the seat to my right turns and asks me if I call Calgary “home.” I explain mildly apologetically that I don’t, that this will in fact be my first trip across the 49th parallel, and that — alas — I am stopping there only in order to connect with another flight. From the city’s sprawling international airport I will continue on up to Fort McMurray, the boomtown gateway to Canada’s tar sands.
“Ah,” he says, his interest piqued. “Actually, I’m in the oil business myself. I’ve been in New York for meetings.” Then he leans in. “Fort McMurray, eh? That’s a real gold-rush sort of place.”
READ MORE: https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/344665/quiet-gold-rush
Thursday, April 25, 2013
EU climate change policy in crisis after MEPs vote against high CO2 prices
The European Union's climate change policy is on the brink of collapse today after MEPs torpedoed Europe's flagship CO2 emissions trading scheme by voting against a measure to support the price of carbon permits.
The price of carbon crashed up to 45 per cent to a record-low €2.63 a metric
ton, after the European Parliament rejected a proposal to change the EU
emissions-trading laws to delay the sale of 900m CO2 permits on the world's
biggest carbon markets.
The European Commission measure, known as "backloading" was aimed at
artificially raising the price of EU carbon permits by restricting supply
after they fell to a record low in January due the economic slowdown and
contraction in manufacturing across Europe.
The rejection of the measure is expected to trigger further falls in the price
of carbon, to as low as €1 and could herald the end of an EU system which
was aimed encouraging investment in "clean" technologies by
pricing high CO2 emissions from smokestack industry or coal-fired power
plants out of the market.
READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9997868/EU-climate-change-policy-in-crisis-after-MEPs-vote-against-high-CO2-prices.html
READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9997868/EU-climate-change-policy-in-crisis-after-MEPs-vote-against-high-CO2-prices.html
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
What I’d like to see this Earth Day: More fracking
Year after year, we are treated to a message of environmental doom and
gloom and admonitions on Earth Day. On the back of this sentiment in
wealthy countries, governments have invested billions of dollars in
inefficient, feel-good policies – such as subsidizing solar panels and
electric cars. But really, there are far better ways to improve
environmental prospects for humanity and our planet. This Earth Day, we
need more fracking, more wealth, smarter investments, and fewer
inefficient subsidies.
READ MORE: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/what-id-like-to-see-this-earth-day-more-fracking/article11449919/
READ MORE: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/what-id-like-to-see-this-earth-day-more-fracking/article11449919/
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Oyster farmers support aquaculture leases for Inland Bays
Task force recommends legislation; clammers raise questions
Rehoboth Beach resident Andy Nowakowski has a passion for oyster farming.
It might be that his family has been raising oysters in Virginia for more than five years. Or maybe it's just the call of the water and salt air.
Whatever it is, the Cape Region native dreams of raising oysters in the Inland Bays, and new legislation could make that dream come true.
Nowakowski has attended nearly 30 meetings over the past year on developing an aquaculture industry in the Inland Bays. A task force organized by the Center for the Inland Bays unanimously approved a package of code changes to allow oyster farming.
While those involved in the task force see many benefits of promoting aquaculture, others – including active clammers – recall the devastation of the oyster industry in the mid-1970s, when disease and overharvesting resulted in the collapse of the industry. Since then, the state stopped leasing land in the Inland Bays; the bottom is now a public resource.
READ MORE: http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/oyster-farmers-support-aquaculture-leases-for-inland-bays/985903
Monday, April 22, 2013
Overlapping wind energy initiatives spark claims of waste, as IRS increases tax credit
WASHINGTON – A recent government
report shows billions in taxpayer dollars are being swept away by pricey
wind energy initiatives that often overlap, even as the IRS moves to up
the value of a popular tax credit.
The Government Accountability Office recently identified 82 federal wind-related initiatives implemented by nine agencies in fiscal year 2011. The nearly seven dozen initiatives were fragmented across agencies and had overlapping characteristics, and several that financed deployment of wind facilities provided some duplicative financial support, the report found.
The Government Accountability Office recently identified 82 federal wind-related initiatives implemented by nine agencies in fiscal year 2011. The nearly seven dozen initiatives were fragmented across agencies and had overlapping characteristics, and several that financed deployment of wind facilities provided some duplicative financial support, the report found.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Another Solar Company Can't Take The Heat, Closes Despite $10 Million In Stimulus
A Pittsburgh, Pa. solar energy company has shut its doors four years
after receiving nearly $10.2 million in tax credits from the Obama
Administration as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
Flabeg Solar U.S. Corp., a $30 million solar plant located near the Pittsburgh International Airport, opened its doors in 2009 and was said to provide 300 jobs. Now, just four years later, the plant has shut down and laid off more than 60 workers. In addition to this, 10 of its former employees have petitioned a federal judge for severance pay after they lost their jobs last month, according to PA Independent.
Robert Lampl, the attorney for Flabeg, said the company would probably seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from the workers who are suing over their severance pay.
READ MORE: http://cnsnews.com/blog/joe-schoffstall/another-solar-company-cant-take-heat-closes-despite-10-million-stimulus
Flabeg Solar U.S. Corp., a $30 million solar plant located near the Pittsburgh International Airport, opened its doors in 2009 and was said to provide 300 jobs. Now, just four years later, the plant has shut down and laid off more than 60 workers. In addition to this, 10 of its former employees have petitioned a federal judge for severance pay after they lost their jobs last month, according to PA Independent.
Robert Lampl, the attorney for Flabeg, said the company would probably seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from the workers who are suing over their severance pay.
READ MORE: http://cnsnews.com/blog/joe-schoffstall/another-solar-company-cant-take-heat-closes-despite-10-million-stimulus
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Coal Makes A Comeback in Europe
Europe’s declining competitiveness with U.S. industry has its leaders
worried, but they admit having no hope of matching the shale revolution
that is powering a revival of manufacturing across the Atlantic.
For Europe to remain in the game, energy taxes must be held in check and no new taxes levied, said the European Union’s energy commissioner, Gunther Oettinger.
Instead, Europe must use its energy more efficiently and the European Union’s 27 member countries should open their energy markets to cross-border competition, Oettinger said at a news conference last week in Brussels.
READ MORE: http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/04/03/coal-makes-a-comeback-in-europe-as-conventional-gas-dries-up/
For Europe to remain in the game, energy taxes must be held in check and no new taxes levied, said the European Union’s energy commissioner, Gunther Oettinger.
Instead, Europe must use its energy more efficiently and the European Union’s 27 member countries should open their energy markets to cross-border competition, Oettinger said at a news conference last week in Brussels.
READ MORE: http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/04/03/coal-makes-a-comeback-in-europe-as-conventional-gas-dries-up/
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Fisker issues big layoff, employees hire firm that sued Solyndra
Fisker Automotive -- the electric-car maker that was granted a
half-billion-dollar federal loan and on Friday dismissed about 75
percent of its remaining workforce -- is purportedly facing a lawsuit
from the same firm that sued the government-funded Solyndra company.
Fisker laid off 160 of its roughly 210 employees Friday morning from its Anaheim, Calif., location, according to Automotive News.
Employees told the publication they were given no severance pay besides compensation for unused vacation days.
Fisker laid off 160 of its roughly 210 employees Friday morning from its Anaheim, Calif., location, according to Automotive News.
Employees told the publication they were given no severance pay besides compensation for unused vacation days.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
US carbon emissions drop as gas displaces coal
A switch from coal to natural gas in electricity production helped drive down energy-related U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2012 to their lowest level since 1994, the federal Energy Information Administration said Friday.
The carbon emissions have fallen every year since 2007, with the exception of 2010, according to the agency.
Various forms of energy production and use — including power plants, refineries and tailpipes — create the vast majority of U.S. carbon emissions that are linked to global warming.
Monday, April 15, 2013
It’s the cold, not global warming, that we should be worried about
No one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive
A few months ago, a group of students in Oslo produced a brilliant spoof video
that lampooned the charity pop song genre. It showed a group of young
Africans coming together to raise money for those of us freezing in the
north. “A lot of people aren’t aware of what’s going on there right now,”
says the African equivalent of Bob Geldof. “People don’t ignore starving
people, so why should we ignore cold people? Frostbite kills too. Africa: we
need to make a difference.” The song – Africa for Norway – has been watched
online two million times, making it one of Europe’s most popular political
videos.
The aim was to send up the patronizing, cliched way in which the West views
Africa. Norway can afford to make the joke because there, people don’t tend
to die of the cold. In Britain, we still do. Each year, an official estimate
is made of the “excess winter mortality” – that is, the number of people
dying of cold-related illnesses. Last winter was relatively mild, and still
24,000 perished. The indications are that this winter, which has dragged on
so long and with such brutality, will claim 30,000 lives, making it one of
the biggest killers in the country. And still, no one seems upset.
READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9959856/Its-the-cold-not-global-warming-that-we-should-be-worried-about.html
READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9959856/Its-the-cold-not-global-warming-that-we-should-be-worried-about.html
Friday, April 12, 2013
Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled
DEBATE about the reality of a
two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way
from the sceptical fringe to the mainstream.
In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, then climate sensitivity - the way climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels - would be on negative watch but not yet downgraded.
Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says the lower than expected temperature rise between 2000 and the present could be explained by increased emissions from burning coal.
For Hansen the pause is a fact, but it's good news that probably won't last.
READ MORE: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/twenty-year-hiatus-in-rising-temperatures-has-climate-scientists-puzzled/story-e6frg6z6-1226609140980
In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, then climate sensitivity - the way climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels - would be on negative watch but not yet downgraded.
Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says the lower than expected temperature rise between 2000 and the present could be explained by increased emissions from burning coal.
For Hansen the pause is a fact, but it's good news that probably won't last.
READ MORE: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/twenty-year-hiatus-in-rising-temperatures-has-climate-scientists-puzzled/story-e6frg6z6-1226609140980
Thursday, April 11, 2013
A sensitive matter
The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought. But that does not mean the problem is going away
Austin - Last year, the Eagle Ford Shale had a $61 billion impact and
supported 116,000 jobs across a 20-county swath of South Texas – a once
sleepy region increasingly defined by an oil and gas boom.
The results of the study were released Tuesday at a meeting of the Eagle Ford Shale Caucus at the Texas Legislature, a group of South Texas lawmakers hoping to bring attention to the road, water, health and other infrastructure needs brought on by the influx of workers and truck traffic into the region.
READ MORE: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissions
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
It’s payback time for our insane energy policy
An obsession with CO2 has left us dangerously short of power as coal-powered stations are forced to close
As the snow of the coldest March since 1963 continues to fall, we learn that
we have barely 48 hours’ worth of stored gas left to keep us warm, and that
the head of our second-largest electricity company, SSE, has warned that our
generating capacity has fallen so low that we can expect power cuts to begin
at any time. It seems the perfect storm is upon us.
The grotesque mishandling of Britain’s energy policy by the politicians of all
parties, as they chase their childish chimeras of CO2-induced global warming
and windmills, has been arguably the greatest act of political
irresponsibility in our history.
Three more events last week brought home again just what a mad bubble of
make-believe these people are living in. Under the EU’s Large Combustion
Plants Directive, we lost two more major coal-fired power stations, Didcot A
and Cockenzie, capable of contributing no less than a tenth to our average
electricity demands. We saw a French state-owned company, EDF, being given
planning permission to spend £14 billion on two new nuclear reactors in
Somerset, but which it says it will only build, for completion in 10 years’
time, if it is guaranteed a subsidy that will double the price of its
electricity. Then, hidden in the small print of the Budget, were new figures
for the fast-escalating tax the Government introduces next week on every ton
of CO2 emitted by fossil-fuel-powered stations, which will soon be adding
billions of pounds more to our electricity bills every year.
READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9949571/Its-payback-time-for-our-insane-energy-policy.html
READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9949571/Its-payback-time-for-our-insane-energy-policy.html
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Will DNREC Make a Ruling Based on Science?
Globally, sea levels are rising – as they have been since the
demise of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago. Our main
questions are: How fast are they rising now and why? The ‘why’ is
important as recent efforts to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions in
Delaware are focused at halting sea level rise.
We must recognize that satellites cannot measure global changes in
sea level very accurately. Adjustments made to data from the various
satellites that have been in orbit since 1979 (i.e.,
Topex-Poseidon, Jason-1, and Jason-2) are substantial as the biases can
be as much as 100 mm (4 inches) despite the fact that the altimeters
used on Jason-1 and Jason-2 are exact duplicates. Carl Wunsch, an
anthropogenic global warming proponent, wrote: “It remains possible that
the database is insufficient to compute mean sea level trends with the
accuracy necessary to discuss the impact of global warming – as
disappointing as this conclusion may be.”
In Delaware, DNREC’s Sea Level Rise Advisory Committee (SLRAC)
began with the premise that “sea level rise…will continue to occur at an
accelerated rate due to global climate change” but vowed to consider
and adjust their scenarios “as the IPCC and other peer reviewed
publications produce updated scenarios and modeling techniques.” Despite
the fact that the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
provides data to indicate sea level rise in Delaware over the past
century has been 11.1 ± 1.0 inches at Lewes and 12.0 ± 2.3 inches at
Reedy Point, the SLRAC has prepared for sea level rise of 0.5, 1.0, and
1.5 meters (19.7, 39.4, and 59.1 inches).
These figures are inconsistent with ten different peer reviewed
articles published over the last two decades which clearly indicate sea
level has not accelerated – meaning that rising levels of carbon dioxide
have had no impact on the rate of sea level rise. But the SLRAC
selected these levels despite the IPCC report in 2007 which indicated
that sea level rise, even at the upper limit in its most extreme
scenario would not exceed 0.59 meters (23.2 inches). Moreover, sea level
rise along Delaware’s coast is mainly due to coastal subsidence, which
cannot be addressed by draconian curbs on fossil fuel emissions.
As the State adopts California regulations and turns to ‘experts’
from outside the State without public hearings or votes from the State
Assembly, we note that (1) there is no clear sign of acceleration in
Delaware, (2) the current sea level rise in Delaware is largely due to
coastal land subsidence, (3) there is no empirical basis to support a
>0.5 meter (19.7 inch) rise in sea level by 2100, (4) models are
inherently bad when it comes to forecasting sea level rise, and (5)
addressing fossil fuel emissions cannot affect sea level rise in
Delaware. We urge citizens to become informed and involved in this issue
so lawmakers and policymakers are more aware of the facts and, like in
North Carolina, such efforts can be thrown out for being unscientific.
David R. Legates is on the Advisory Council of the Caesar Rodney Institute
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Too much green energy is bad for Britain
The Tory part of the Coalition is beginning to recognise some painful truths, but it is time for the Coalition to tear up its energy policy before the lights go out
With the worst snow conditions in the country since 1981, it’s worrying, to say the least, that gas supplies are running low. A month ago, The Sunday Telegraph warned in this column of the problems of an energy policy that puts expensive, inefficient green power before coal-fired and nuclear power. There have been a few signs that the Coalition is at last turning its attentions to the issue but, still, not nearly enough has been done. Now we are reaping the consequences. Because of a misguided faith in green energy, we have left ourselves far too dependent on foreign gas supplies, largely provided by Russian and Middle Eastern producers. Only 45 per cent of our gas consumption comes from domestic sources. All it takes is a spell of bad weather, and the closure of a gas pipeline from Belgium, to leave us dangerously exposed, and to send gas prices soaring. Talk of rationing may be exaggerated, but our energy policy is failing to deal with Britain’s fundamental incapacity to produce our own power.
READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9949595/Too-much-green-energy-is-bad-for-Britain.html
Friday, April 5, 2013
Obama’s Energy nominee: We need carbon tax to double or triple energy cost
President Obama’s Energy secretary nominee regards a carbon tax as
one of the simplest ways to move the energy industry towards clean
technologies, though he notes that government would have to come up with
a plan to mitigate the burden this tax places on poor people, who would
pay the most.
“Ultimately, it has to be cheaper to capture and store it than to release it and pay a price,” MIT professor and Energy nominee Ernest Moniz told the Switch Energy Project in an interview last year. “If we start really squeezing down on carbon dioxide over the next few decades, well, that could double; it could eventually triple. I think inevitably if we squeeze down on carbon, we squeeze up on the cost, it brings along with it a push toward efficiency; it brings along with it a push towards clean technologies in a conventional pollution sense; it brings along with it a push towards security. Because after all, the security issues revolve around carbon bearing fuels.”
READ MORE: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2525310
“Ultimately, it has to be cheaper to capture and store it than to release it and pay a price,” MIT professor and Energy nominee Ernest Moniz told the Switch Energy Project in an interview last year. “If we start really squeezing down on carbon dioxide over the next few decades, well, that could double; it could eventually triple. I think inevitably if we squeeze down on carbon, we squeeze up on the cost, it brings along with it a push toward efficiency; it brings along with it a push towards clean technologies in a conventional pollution sense; it brings along with it a push towards security. Because after all, the security issues revolve around carbon bearing fuels.”
READ MORE: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2525310
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Obsessive-Compulsive Environmentalism
America’s massive and well-funded environmental industry is
always in need of new worlds to conquer, or at least to attack with
broom and dustpan. But the irony behind the modern-day
environmental movement in America is that the more successful the
movement is, the more petty subsequent goals necessarily become.
There is no other choice. The big environmental organizations have
mouths to feed and rents to pay just like any other business.
They’re not going to offer up an attaboy to the nation and close up
shop just because America has reached a level of environmental
purity that would have been impossible to imagine just 50 years
ago.
Risk, and more specifically the way that average American perceives risk, is the crux of the matter. So long as Joe and Josephine McOrdinary believe that substantial environmental hazards exist that threaten the well-being of themselves and their children, the environmental movement will continue to maintain traction and, most importantly from its perspective, a healthy balance in its checking account. The flip side of that scenario is the one that strikes terror into the hearts of Sierra Club fundraisers, for if the public ever perceives that today’s environmental risks are really pretty mundane, the good times will be over.
READ MORE: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/22/obsessive-compulsive-environme
Risk, and more specifically the way that average American perceives risk, is the crux of the matter. So long as Joe and Josephine McOrdinary believe that substantial environmental hazards exist that threaten the well-being of themselves and their children, the environmental movement will continue to maintain traction and, most importantly from its perspective, a healthy balance in its checking account. The flip side of that scenario is the one that strikes terror into the hearts of Sierra Club fundraisers, for if the public ever perceives that today’s environmental risks are really pretty mundane, the good times will be over.
READ MORE: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/22/obsessive-compulsive-environme
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
NJ town fines businesses for leaving lights on
Businesses in Paramus, New Jersey are getting tickets when they leave their sign lights on.
Paramus has a quality of life ordinance that fines businesses $200 or more, plus $33 in court costs, if their signs don't go dark after 11 p.m.
All stores must close by 11 p.m. in Paramus.
Business owner Kathy Billard and her husband own Alternate Heat on Route 17. She said she had no idea her sign was a problem until after she got fined.
"We've been her for 25 years and never had an issue," Billard says.
Her husband also says merchants should be allowed to pay the fine online or by mail instead of having to spend hours waiting in court.
40 businesses have received fine notices so far in 2013.
READ MORE: http://wap.myfoxny.com/w/main/story/87600057/
Paramus has a quality of life ordinance that fines businesses $200 or more, plus $33 in court costs, if their signs don't go dark after 11 p.m.
All stores must close by 11 p.m. in Paramus.
Business owner Kathy Billard and her husband own Alternate Heat on Route 17. She said she had no idea her sign was a problem until after she got fined.
"We've been her for 25 years and never had an issue," Billard says.
Her husband also says merchants should be allowed to pay the fine online or by mail instead of having to spend hours waiting in court.
40 businesses have received fine notices so far in 2013.
READ MORE: http://wap.myfoxny.com/w/main/story/87600057/
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Wind farms are net carbon dioxide emitters
(NaturalNews) Large British wind farms will actually release as much
carbon dioxide as fossil-fuel power plants, according to a study
conducted by researchers from Aberdeen University and published in the journal Nature.
The source of the emissions is not the windmills themselves, but the land on which they are being constructed.
"Much of the cheap land being targeted by developers desperate to cash in on wind farm subsidies is peat land in remote wild land areas of the UK," said Helen McDade of the John Muir Trust.
"This [study] is a timely reminder that we must have independent and scientific assessment of the effects of policy and subsidies."
The source of the emissions is not the windmills themselves, but the land on which they are being constructed.
"Much of the cheap land being targeted by developers desperate to cash in on wind farm subsidies is peat land in remote wild land areas of the UK," said Helen McDade of the John Muir Trust.
"This [study] is a timely reminder that we must have independent and scientific assessment of the effects of policy and subsidies."
Monday, April 1, 2013
Tides uses tax dollars to turn America to the Left
At the center of Washington, D.C., politics, a powerful group of left-wing activists has leveraged big money, high-level White House
access and tax-code loopholes to create a lobbying organization dressed
up as an educational nonprofit with the benign name of a laundry
detergent.
The Tides Foundation is a favorite charity of such big-name liberal donors as Teresa Heinz Kerry (ketchup up heiress and wife of Secretary of State John Kerry) and Barbra Streisand. The two have given Tides more than $8.5 million over the years.
And Tides has a lesser-known benefactor: You. From 2009 to 2011, the most recent years for which data is available, the government has given Tides some $28 million in grants paid for by American taxpayers.
READ MORE: http://watchdog.org/72855/tides-uses-tax-dollars-to-turn-america-to-the-left/
The Tides Foundation is a favorite charity of such big-name liberal donors as Teresa Heinz Kerry (ketchup up heiress and wife of Secretary of State John Kerry) and Barbra Streisand. The two have given Tides more than $8.5 million over the years.
And Tides has a lesser-known benefactor: You. From 2009 to 2011, the most recent years for which data is available, the government has given Tides some $28 million in grants paid for by American taxpayers.
READ MORE: http://watchdog.org/72855/tides-uses-tax-dollars-to-turn-america-to-the-left/
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