Jay Rockefeller Stands in the Way of Obama's Environmental End-Around

Jay Rockefeller Stands in the Way of Obama's Environmental End-Around

With the “science” of global warming collapsing like a house of cards, the Copenhagen “climate change” conference accomplishing absolutely nothing and a massive energy tax hike going nowhere in the U.S. Senate, President Barack Obama is now faced with a conundrum. He can either read the handwriting on the wall, or seek to accomplish through regulation what he couldn’t accomplish through legislation: the handover of U.S. environmental policy to radical environmentalists.

Does any of this sound familiar? This is frankly the same dynamic we are witnessing in the health care debate. There, Obama says he will use procedural loopholes to ram...