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Two years ago, U.N. researchers were claiming that it would cost “as much as $600 billion a year over the next decade” to go green. Now, a new U.N. report has more than tripled that number to $1.9 trillion per year for 40 years.

So let's do the math: That works out to a grand total of $76 trillion, over 40 years -- or more than five times the entire Gross Domestic Product of the United States ($14.66 trillion a year). It’s all part of a “technological overhaul” “on the scale of the first industrial revolution” called for in the annual report. Except that the U.N. will apparently control this next industrial revolution.

 

The new 251-page report with the benign sounding name of the “World Economic and Social Survey 2011” is rife with goodies calling for “a radically new economic strategy” and “global governance.” 

Patriot Coal Corporation
Published: Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2011 - 1:15 pm

ST. LOUIS, June 29, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX) announced that Apogee Coal, Patriot's Logan County complex, received the Employer of the Year Award from WorkForce West Virginia, an affiliate of the West Virginia Department of Commerce.  The award was presented during the "Building Workforce Success Together" conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. 

"One of Patriot's core values is to hire and retain the most qualified people and maximize their opportunities through personal growth and development," stated Patriot President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Whiting.  "Our employees are key to the success of our operations.  We are pleased to receive this award in recognition of our employee development and training programs and our commitment to building a skilled workforce devoted to a culture of safety and continuous improvement."

TO THE EDITOR,

Jobs … that’s what is important today.

Our nation is struggling 14 million people out of work, homes and cars being repossessed and children going hungry.  Yet for some folks it seems their narrow political agenda has to come before any consideration for its impact on people.

The West Virginia Sierra Club seems so intent on imposing its “green” agenda on our people that they are willing to bankrupt our people and our state to do so.

A recent story by AP’s Vicki Smith is an example in point …

USAgNet

The Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, John Mica (R-FL.) and Ranking Member Nick Rahall (D-WV) have introduced the "Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011", H.R. 2018.

The bipartisan bill is an effort to amend the Clean Water Act (CWA) and to return responsibility of water pollution control to the states. The legislation would restrict EPA's ability to override or delay a state's
permitting and water quality certification decisions under the CWA once EPA has already approved a state's program, unless the state concurs that a new standard is necessary.

The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives passed out of Committee by a recorded vote of 35-20 the “Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011” (H.R. 2018) late Thursday. HR 2018 is a bipartisan bill that would rein in the Obama EPA. It would bring an end to the agency’s destructive abuse of authority and restore the balance needed to get America working again. The bill has major implications for the Friends of Coal and the 63,000 West Virginia families whose livelihoods depend on mining coal.

In recent years, the Obama EPA has used the CWA permitting process to block coal mines in Appalachia, but coal mining isn’t the only industry threatened by EPA’s arrogance. Quarries, farmers, commercial, residential and infrastructure construction projects also receive CWA scrutiny and are potentially affected by EPA’s abuse of its authority. Five Democrats voted in favor of the legislation. Among them was Rep. Nick Rahall (3rd District, WV).