October 17th, 2011

From Green Right Now Reports

Many reports are taking Gov. Rick Perry’s energy plan to task for focusing on dirty fossil fuels and promoting jobs numbers for oil and gas development that crumble upon examination.

The New York Times says Perry’s plan to extend drilling on public lands, in the arctic and the Gulf of Mexico resembles “a wish list for the oil and gas industry” and appears to have been drawn from a study by Wood Mackenzie consultants paid for by the American Petroleum Institute.

The Atlantic reports that Perry is far off the mark when he claims that expanding oil and gas drilling and rolling back EPA regulations would create 1.2 million jobs.

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October 11th, 2011

Animal rights supporters are taking aim at Texas’ shoot-to-kill policy against burros in the Big Bend Ranch State Park along the border with Mexico.

Last month, members of the Wild Burro Protection League started a petition on Change.org challenging the shootings after discovering that Texas wildlife officials had killed 50 of the animals over the last year. So far more than 85,000 people have signed the weeks-old petition, which calls out presidential contender Texas Gov. Rick Perry as presiding over a policy that evokes Sarah Palin’s support for the controversial aerial shootings of wolves.

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