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    As More Trains Derail, Heritage Foundation Asks Court to Force EPA to Release Information on Ohio Disaster 

    The Environmental Protection Agency is blocking release of public information about the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which created an ecological disaster, alleges a lawsuit from The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.  The push for more information comes as the EPA faces additional questions about a derailment Thursday in Minnesota of a 22-car…
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    New Jersey’s $8,000-Per-Resident Wind Energy Scheme Won’t Reduce Climate Change

    In stark contrast to the bucolic vision of harvesting energy from the wind, New Jersey is witnessing harsh political reality. Gov. Phil Murphy has approved a large offshore wind farm in southern New Jersey, and local residents and officials who oppose the project because of extremely high costs, the lack of reliable energy, and the…
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    Department of Energy’s Lab Leak Bombshell Exposes the Utter Bankruptcy of ‘Experts’ and the Media

    In 2020, if you thought it was possible COVID-19 came from a lab in China you were labeled a conspiracy theorist, a peddler of misinformation, “bonkers,” and a racist. Facebook and other social media removed the lab leak claim from their apps or slapped “misinformation” labels on it. Facebook did so in lockstep with the…
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    The Inefficiency of the Left’s ‘Energy Efficiency’ Mandates

    President Joe Biden likely had his fingers crossed last month while promising Americans that the administration “does not support” gas stove bans. That’s because this month, his Department of Energy released a proposed rule updating energy efficiency standards with new costly and stringent standards for conventional cooking products—including gas stoves—that would make them unaffordable for…
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    Lying and Denying: Left Is Still Out to Take Away Your Gas Stove

    Southern Democrats attacked the U.S. Army at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. Having ignited the Civil War, these Southerners had the chutzpah to call it the War of Northern Aggression. In like fashion, Democrats unleashed today’s War on Gas. Inspired by their Confederate ancestors, they then blame their victims who complain that…
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    Biden Spending Billions on Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Many Americans Will Never Use

    It’s winter, with high temperatures well below freezing in Jackson, Wyoming, and barely above freezing in Wyoming’s capital, Cheyenne. Relying only on battery-powered electric vehicles in a cold climate takes courage because car batteries quickly lose their charge when temperatures are low. Yet the federal government wants to spend billions to build charging stations all…
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    Joint Ford-China Electric Vehicle Battery Plant Contrary to American Interests

    When Gov. Glenn Youngkin decided to remove the commonwealth of Virginia from competing with Michigan for an electric vehicle battery plant owned by Ford Motor Co. but operated by a Chinese industrial giant, he acted both in Virginia’s and America’s best interests. His decision displays strategic insight, choosing American interests over the Chinese game plan….
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    A Modest Proposal on Where Tyrants Can Put Their Gas Bans

    I support a woman’s right to choose whether or not to cook on a gas stove. Too bad allegedly “pro-choice” Democrats disagree. Preventing women (and men) from using natural gas has become all the rage among today’s totalitarian Democrats. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. just proposed to ban gas stoves. New York Gov….
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    Democrats’ Gasophobia Will Kill Americans

    The just-departed polar vortex confirmed that when Mother Nature is enraged, it’s wise to have options. Maddeningly, today’s “pro-choice” Democrats want Americans to have one energy choice. Neo-totalitarian, left-wing eco-extremists are banning new natural gas access in scores of locales. If not reversed, this cruel, stupid, needless policy will kill Americans. The Christmastime deep freeze that transformed…
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    Consuming Less, Paying More: One Spanish Family’s Story of Coping With Europe’s Energy Crisis

    As winter’s colder temperatures set in in Europe, one family is sharing its story of coping with a crippling energy crisis in Spain. “We have two forms of energy to heat our home … . One is gas-powered and the other one is electric-powered,” Maria Teresa Novo told The Daily Signal in a phone interview….
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    Fusion Energy at a Crossroads

    Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced to much fanfare earlier this month that scientists have reached a major milestone in fusion energy research.  After decades of research and billions of taxpayer dollars, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Ignition Facility successfully produced a fusion reaction that yielded more energy than was used to initiate…
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    What You Need to Know About Europe’s Energy Crisis This Winter

    Colder temperatures are just around the corner in Europe as many people there brace for an energy crisis this winter. “Well, the latest is that temperatures are dropping in Europe, prices of electricity and other heating fuels have quadrupled, and it’s very difficult for people to afford these high prices,” says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of…
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    Sam Brinton Out at Department of Energy After Alleged Bag Theft, Questions About ‘Conversion Therapy’ Story

    The U.S. Department of Energy appears to have parted ways with Sam Brinton, the nonbinary Biden administration nuclear official who is facing charges for allegedly stealing two pieces of luggage at two separate airports. "Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee," a Department of Energy spokesperson told The Daily Signal in an email Monday afternoon. "By…
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    Washington State Ban on Natural Gas Heating Is All Cost, No Benefit

    The Washington State Building Code Council, an unelected board that governs construction standards, on Nov. 4 decided to effectively ban natural gas heating in new construction homes and office buildings. Advocates of the new restrictions admitted reluctantly that their new requirements will increase the cost of housing, but perhaps even more notable is that the…
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    Why This Solar Company CEO Wants to Drill, Build Pipelines, and ‘Deploy All Types of Energy’

    Drew Bond, co-founder and president of C3 Solutions, is a serial entrepreneur. Having founded several companies in the energy industry, he now leads an organization that helps conservatives counter the Left’s radical environmental ideas. “I would argue that many conservatives are, in fact, better environmentalists than many in the environmental community,” Bond tells The Daily…
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    Why International Climate Summits Are Doomed to Fail, Part 2: Upward Mobility for Poor Depends on Energy

    Second of two articles. The first article can be read here. Here’s a reality-framing statement for the roughly 190 countries headed to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt that opens on Sunday: Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 appear to be higher than pre-pandemic levels, again, and yet, according to the U.N., greenhouse gas emissions…
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    How Europe’s Energy Crisis Is Becoming an Economic Crisis

    Europe’s energy crisis is becoming an economic crisis. Skyrocketing energy prices are causing companies of all types across the region to cut thousands of jobs, dramatically roll back production, and in some instances, halt business altogether. In Western Europe, French glass company Arc International has made significant cutbacks due to rising energy prices. The company…
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    Critical Facts Ignored in the Climate Change Debate

    Many Western countries are enacting policies to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to less reliable and costly “green” energy sources (mostly wind and solar) while ignoring the critical benefits that hydrocarbons provide. The outcomes will be nothing short of calamitous for more developed countries as their energy industries are…
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    Biden Administration’s Electric Vehicle Gambit Is Enormously Expensive—and Illegal

    Congress has repeatedly rejected radical climate change policies that would increase the price of energy. Now, President Joe Biden is circumventing the legislative branch by moving to force people into using electric vehicles. This plan would impose the costliest regulatory burden ever inflicted on the public. The vast majority of people don’t support phasing out and eventually banning…
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    America’s Schools Warm to Climate Change, Without Question

    Public school districts are adopting curriculums on climate change from well-funded progressive groups casting the issue as a threat to life on the planet that students should respond to through activism.  As of fall 2020, 29 states and the District of Columbia had adopted standards that require science classes to teach human-caused climate change as…
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