No matter what you think about the Bush administration and its environmental policies, this study by David Healy at CRC should be disconcerting - maybe even a little perplexing.

Here's the long and short of it: the federal gov't takes tax dollars from the US taxpayer, and then gives it to environmental organizations as part of federal subsidy programs meant to aid in Green efforts. The figureheads of those self-same organizations use the subsidies to propagate anti-Administration rhetoric – especially with respect to the Administration’s environmental policies (read: EPA and Interior). Therefore, taxpayers via the Administration are being forced to fund Green propaganda. This is a vicious, vicious circle for all parties involved (except, of course, environmental groups who are content in their role as rent-seekers).

The moral? The federal government should get out of the business of subsidizing NGOs, much like it should get out of the business of subsidizing NPR and PBS.