Controversial coal mining method gets Obama's OK -- chicagotribune.com

WASHINGTON - With the election of Barack Obama, environmentalists expected to see the end of the "Appalachian apocalypse" -- their name for exposing coal deposits by blowing the tops off of whole mountains.

But in recent weeks, the Obama administration has quietly decided to open the way for at least two dozen more "mountaintop removal" projects.

Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software « Green Hell Blog

Al Gore’s venture capital firm has invested $6 million in a software company that stands to make billions of dollars from cap-and-trade regulation — further fueling controversy that Gore lied about his profiteering from cap-and-trade to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee during testimony in April.

Seaspook's Rants: The Global Warming Scam is Wasting Time and Resources for the Real Threat

While libs flail and gnash their teeth over human impact on the climate and their idiotic carbon credit scams and the Obama administration prepares to tax the crap out of us with the cap and trade fiasco, the problem is building right above our heads.