There’s a fascinating post at New Mexico Watchdog by Jim Scaratino on appointee shenanigans by Dem Gov. Bill Richardson and the potential consequences such will have for Big Brother environmental policy.

Is Richardson stacking the court that can order a state-wide emissions cap of so-called greenhouse gases? As it is, the Environmental Improvement Board is chaired by a man paid by global warming activists to be their spokesman and lobbyist. Now a leader of one of the most aggressive and radical environmental groups will be joining him on the EIB.
According to Joyce Medina, Board Administrator for the New Mexico Environment Department Boards and Commissions, Gov. Bill Richardson has appointed James Gollin of Santa Fe to an open seat on the EIB. She states she has learned of the appointment though “they haven’t sent me anything on it yet.”
Gollin is the president of the board of directors of the Rainforest Action Network, an environmental group co-founded by one of the nation’s first advocates and practitioners of environmental terrorism. RAN was co-founded by Mike Roselle, who helped start Earthfirst!, the first organization to openly advocate and practice eco-terrorism through of acts of destroying property and intimidation of those engaged in practices they deemed objectionable. Arson and other means of sabotage were promoted and taught to Earthfirst! associates.

Read Scaratino’s full report here.