David Otness:  Russia threw the environmentalists into prison, and they haven't sailed into Russian waters again.  The EPA has no authority over Russian territory.  The Russian permitting process is much faster ... they don't take decades to issue them.  They are willing to pay the environmental price, through a cost-benefit analysis that works for them.  They have also given the world the greatest nuclear disaster in history so far ... Japan being a close second.  China is making noises that suggest that they're revising their cost-benefit analysis more towards the environment.  America has yet to come to grips with a realistic and relevant cost-benefit analysis that won't encourage competition with Russia for environmental disasters, and still keep us competitive.  The military/industrial complex, Citizens United, party-first politics, too big to fail policies, and public resistance to change of any type, and etc, ham-strings us.