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    Why Progressive Activists Want to Silence the Truth About Climate Change
    Climate activists continue to sound the alarm over carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. Caleb Rossiter, the executive director of CO2 Coalition, an organization of climate scientists and experts who research and report the facts of climate change, joins the show to explain just how worried we really should or should not be about the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Don’t Gaslight Us on #BelieveWomen
    Many of us were startled to open The New York Times last week and find ourselves accused of hijacking and weaponizing the phrase “believe all women.” According to journalist Susan Faludi, the phrase always has been “believe women,” and never has been associated with a demand for automatic and unquestioned belief that those who allege…
    Amy Swearer
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    In Responding to Low Oil Prices, Patience Is a Virtue
    Sometimes the preferred policy solution is to do nothing at all.  Take the oil industry, for instance, where many of the proposals from federal and state policymakers would have done far more harm than good by distorting markets and harming consumers. America’s oil producers are by no means out of the woods yet, but the…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Don’t Expand Federal Energy Loan Programs. Unplug Them.
    Amid the economic downturn caused by COVID-19, some in Congress are calling for more stimulus programs to jump-start and sustain an economic recovery. Many policymakers are calling for it to be done in a climate-friendly way, which has renewed interest in the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. The Loan Programs Office offers taxpayer-backed loans…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Jesse Jackson Stands up for Natural Gas Development in Struggling Community
    The Rev. Jesse Jackson is bucking many of the environmentalists who believe natural gas production perpetuates a world in which climate change is disproportionately hurting black communities. Jackson is prodding local, state, and federal officials in Illinois to OK the construction of a $8.2 million, 30-mile natural gas pipeline built for a community, Axios noted in a report…
    Chris White
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    Why Eco-Warriors’ Bid to Ban Natural Gas Appliances Is Wrongheaded
    Could the 80-year-old phrase “Now we’re cooking with gas” soon become a relic of the past? Several cities are studying proposals to restrict the use of natural gas in commercial and residential buildings as a way to combat climate change. In the latest push to ban natural gas appliances in homes, a Sierra Club-commissioned report…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Ocasio-Cortez Deletes Tweet Hailing Oil Price Crash That Risks Big Job Losses
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted—and then quickly deleted—comments that appeared to show adulation over the price of oil dipping below $0 a barrel, which will ultimately lead to job losses. Ocasio-Cortez on April 20 reacted gleefully at news that the price of oil had dropped below $0, saying that such a milestone would mean the United States…
    Jason Hopkins
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    What Collapsing Oil Prices Mean for America
    Warmer weather usually means more people getting out and driving—to stores, restaurants, baseball games, or sometimes, just to drive. Projections that gas prices could soon fall below $2 per gallon would usually be cause for celebration. But these aren’t usual times, are they? The reality is the implications for the U.S. economy are unclear. They…
    Nicolas Loris
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    A Misguided Approach to Nuclear Power in ‘Energy Innovation’ Bill
    Being “well intentioned” isn’t the same as doing well. Look no further than the recently introduced American Energy Innovation Act. The bill proposes an extensive federally funded and directed research, development, and demonstration program for advanced nuclear technologies through the Department of Energy. It’s Act 2 of the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, the first half…
    Katie Tubb
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    Senate’s ‘Energy Innovation’ Bill Wasteful, Redundant
    When you think of the word “innovation,” what comes to mind?  Maybe it’s something new and inventive—or something cutting edge, original, and creative. Or, if you’re in Washington, “innovation” is trotting out the same, stale approaches to policy that have done less to empower innovators and families and more to empower special interests. The latest…
    Nicolas Loris | Katie Tubb
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    Oil Production on Federal Land Tops 1 Billion Barrels, Reducing OPEC’s Impact on Markets
    Oil production on federal lands topped 1 billion barrels in 2019, marking a 29% increase from the Obama administration, Department of the Interior officials announced Tuesday. Technological advancements over the last decade in hydraulic fracturing helped drive the increase, as did President Donald Trump’s rollback of his Democratic predecessor’s environmental regulations. Production was up 122 million barrels…
    Chris White
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    How the Shale Revolution Became the MVP of US Energy Production
    America’s oil and gas production is like Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes. Defies expectations. Continually amazes. Sets new records. Makes a lot of people very happy. Within the past decade, the United States has seen remarkable benefits as a result of the shale revolution. Fueled by innovation and American entrepreneurial grit, the U.S. surpassed Russia as the world’s largest…
    Nicolas Loris | Coleman Raush
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    Faulty Assumptions Lead to Fake News About Climate Change
    Climate change soon will constitute “a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters,” one government study predicted. By 2020, according to a report on the study in The Guardian, “abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure…
    Kevin Dayaratna
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    How the Oil Production Boom Has Benefited America
    “We can’t just drill our way out of the problem.” That was the oft-repeated phrase of President Barack Obama,  who throughout his presidency argued that the key to beating higher gasoline prices was to subsidize alternative energies, such as solar and wind. It was a common sentiment from those who fretted that the world had…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Climate Change Protesters’ Traffic Tie-Ups Are No Way to Win Friends or Influence People
    The environmental zealots who regularly take to the streets of the nation’s capital for climate change protests clearly have never read Dale Carnegie’s classic self-help bestseller “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”  That’s evident from the demonstrations the global warming alarmists stage at downtown D.C. intersections during morning rush hours, unapologetically snarling traffic and…
    Peter Parisi
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    Omnibus Spending Bill Misses Mark on Nuclear Energy Leadership
    Don’t get me wrong. I love nuclear energy and think it has the power to change the world for the better. But Congress is working its way toward creating a new, $230 million-plus subsidy program for the nuclear energy sector that’s a waste of taxpayer resources, is problematic for the industry, and that totally ignores issues…
    Katie Tubb
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    Scrap Energy Tax Favors for Better Reform
    It’s that time of year again when Congress, feeling the pressure of budget negotiations and the year’s end, provokes the issue of expired or soon-to-expire energy tax credits. Congress has on the table roughly a dozen renewable energy tax subsidies covering wind, solar, electric vehicles, biofuels, and others. There’s a host of reasons why these…
    Katie Tubb
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    Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World
    The climate change movement has become the “modern world’s secular religion,” declared Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker recently. Climate activists preach a gospel of conservation that aims to redeem humanity’s environmental sins. They counsel us to abstain from eating meat to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and prophesy that Earth will perish unless governments worldwide trust the oracle from whom we…
    Dion Pierre
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    Here’s Why Californians Pay Way More for Gasoline Than Everyone Else
    Editor's Note: This article was originally published on May 19, 2018. It has been updated to include California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call for an investigation into oil companies, California’s recent gas price increases, and news of the state’s wildfires. A gallon of gas costs more in California than in the rest of the country for…
    Chris White
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    More Ethanol Means Higher Prices, and Not Just for Gasoline
    Over the summer, President Donald Trump tweeted that his administration was working on an ethanol package that would be “Great for all!” Now that we have the Environmental Protection Agency’s draft proposal, we can see he was half right. It’s great, all right—for the politically connected. It’s costly for everyone else. The Renewable Fuel Standard,…
    Nicolas Loris
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