The NYT does nothing that doesn't support the leftist agenda, most of their reporting is laughable. The attack on shale drilling and specious unscientific arguments about hydraulic fracturing are just part of the agenda to create an energy crisis. The shut down of Yucca mountain(no new nuclear), imposition of cap and trade legislation by bureaucratic fiat at the EPA(no coal power), shut down of drilling in gulf(no oil and gas), now the protection of the "dune sage lizard' removing a 1,000,000 acres of productive land from development in SE New Mexico & West Texas. Looks like we're being set up for the photo op of frozen grandmas to have senate show trials to deny responsibility.