Just finished a great roundtable in Madison, WI at the State Capitol!  Local veteran Robin Eckstein and the rest of the Operation Free team (Larry Delashmit and I) spoke to a good sized crowd.  The roundtable included Senator Fred Risser, a WWII veteran and President of the Wisconsin State Senate, and Representative Steve Hilgenberg, Chairman of the Veterans Committee, and was later attended by Representative Steve Black, co-author (along with Sen. Risser) of the current clean energy legislation under consideration before the Wisconsin legislature.  Reporters from the Wisconsin Radio Network and the BBC World Service were also in attendance.

Senator Risser and Representative Hilgenberg both expressed their thanks to Operation Free for bringing attention to the issue of green energy and said that they had come to learn and listen to views and information that they could use in their own push for comprehensive clean energy reform in the state of Wisconsin, the culmination of which may come soon in a bill coming up for vote in the state legislature.  Sen. Risser also spoke to the fact that Wisconsin currently imports 100% of its energy from outside of the state and that Wisconsin and states like it have much to gain from energy independence.

The questions raised by the audience ranged from veteran involvement in new green energy jobs to the astronomical cost of fueling the fight against terrorism and what the U.S. military itself is currently doing to develop new energy sources and reduce its use of oil. We really enjoyed our time in Wisconsin, now we’re off to Indiana!

By now, you know that we’re sending $1 billion a day in oil money overseas. Some of that money goes to countries that don’t like us and ends up in the hands of terrorists that plot and carry out attacks on our troops and our country.

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Molly Henneberg | FOXNews.com | February 19, 2010 

The EPA says it is going forward with “common sense measures that are helping to protect Americans from this threat” and said its critics are trying to “stall progress.”

The Environmental Protection Agency, responding complaints about its December findings about the threat of greenhouse gases, issued a statement Friday saying that the “science is settled” and “greenhouse gases pose a real threat to the American people.”

The statement comes after after Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed a petition with the EPA and a challenge in federal appeals court over the EPA’s conclusions.

With climate scientists in the hot seat recently over an e-mail scandal and mistakes in a prominent U.N. report, Cuccinelli argues the EPA should “restart the process and this time use rigorous, defensible science.”

He says the EPA is expected to announces measures to cap carbon emissions, based on its climate change findings, and that will put a “staggering burden” on Virginia residents and businesses.

The EPA says it is going forward with “common sense measures that are helping to protect Americans from this threat” and said its critics are trying to “stall progress.”

Some who support the EPA’s efforts to enact carbon caps on vehicle emissions say Cuccinelli is just playing politics.

“It’s very clear this is coming from lawyers, not scientists, and there’s really no new science that needs to be resolved,” said Brendan Bell, Washington representative for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a leading nonprofit environmental group.

But the science that climatologists have been using has come under fire. Recently, some parts of the 2007 United Nations Panel Report on Climate Change were found to contain mistakes, including a claim that the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035.

And one of the lead scientists in the Climate-gate scandal last year, Phil Jones, acknowledged that there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995. But he also claims most of the climate warning since 1950 is “due to human activity.”

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Great new video released by the PEW Project featuring Operation Free veteran Jim Morin and former Navy Secretary and Senator John Warner.

Check it out