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    Climate Change Alarmism Is the World’s Leading Cause of Hot Gas

    Even as anti-gas tax riots raged in France this week, naturalist David Attenborough warned a crowd at a United Nations climate change summit in Poland that “the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” U.N. General Assembly President Maria Espinosa told the media that “mankind”…
    David Harsanyi
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    In France and the US, a Tale of 2 Energy Policies

    When it comes to the energy and climate policies of the United States and France, there’s a clear fork in the road. If the past few weeks were any indication, families would rather take the path that avoids expensive, ineffective climate policies. The Trump EPA is leading America down that path marked by energy abundance…
    Kay C. James
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    Unplug Electric Vehicle Subsidies and Let Consumers Decide

    Frustrated with General Motors Co.’s recent announcement of plant closures and layoffs, President Donald Trump said the administration is now looking at cutting at subsidies to the automaker, including for electric vehicles. Good. Families should be empowered to purchase the car they want without nudging from Washington and the financial help of their fellow taxpayers….
    Nicolas Loris
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    4 Problems With the New Climate Change Report

    If you’re like me, you’re happy the White House released the latest version of the National Climate Assessment on Black Friday. Publishing the 1,700-page report the day after Thanksgiving saved me from unwanted dinner conversations about our planet’s impending climate doom. But if your aunt calls you up this week spouting claims of mass deaths,…
    Nicolas Loris
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    No ‘Green Wave’ as Voters Reject Ballot Measures on Climate Change in 3 States

    Not only did a Democratic “blue wave” fail to materialize on Tuesday night, the “green wave” of major global warming and energy-related ballot measures largely failed to get voter approval, as well. Voters in Arizona, Colorado, and Washington rejected measures aimed at fighting global warming, despite two of those states being in Democratic hands. The…
    Michael Bastasch
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    3 Residents Challenge Climate Change Rules at Delaware’s High Court

    Delaware regulators have imposed costly and unlawful climate change regulations on industry in violation of legislative directives, according to three citizen activists who took their case to the state’s highest court. But before the Delaware Supreme Court can address the substantive questions raised in the residents’ lawsuit, it first must resolve a lower court ruling…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Green Energy Mandates Could Double Your Electric Bills

    Business and homeowner utility costs could double in many states if environmental groups succeed in enacting draconian solar and wind power mandates in states across the country. Yet these mandates will have almost no impact in cleaning the air or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In Arizona and Nevada, voters will decide on Nov. 6 whether…
    Stephen Moore
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    UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism

    What will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism—the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering. The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist writer, to tweet enthusiastically, “The world’s top scientists just…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Denmark Wants to Ban Gas-Powered Cars, Even Hybrids

    Denmark is presenting a proposal to the country’s parliament later in October that would ban the sale of all gas-powered cars, including hybrids, by 2035, Reuters reports. Denmark’s government is presenting the plan as a way to curb vehicle pollution and combat climate change. The plan will be implemented incrementally, banning the sale of gas- and diesel-powered…
    Tim Pearce
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    Ratepayers Get Cold Shoulder as Green Energy Gets ‘Preferential Treatment’ in Delaware

    Delaware residents are the victims of deceptive business practices associated with a green energy scheme resulting from elected officials’ sweetheart deal with a fuel cell company, policy analysts and academics argue. Bloom Energy had pledged to create 900 full-time jobs in Delaware by Sept. 30, 2016, and to continue employing these workers for at least…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Time to Pull the Plug on Electric Vehicle Handouts for the Rich

    Earlier this year, Congress passed an irresponsible budget bill that included handouts for electric vehicle owners and alternative fuels. Eager to frivolously waste more taxpayer dollars, some legislators are now pushing to extend the electric vehicle tax credit and lift the cap on the number of vehicles that qualify for the credit by each manufacturer. Doing…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Setting the Record Straight on Climate Change and Hurricanes

    Hurricane Florence pummeled the Carolinian coast, claimed 37 lives, and displaced hundreds of thousands of families from their homes. And to hear a lot of pundits tell it, humans are to blame and the Trump administration is doing nothing about it. They have attributed this storm and the frequency of similar natural disasters to climate…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Hurricane Florence Is Not an Omen About Climate Change

    In today’s hyper-politicized world of climate science, hardly a thunderstorm passes without somebody invoking the “scientists say” trope to blame it on carbon emissions. The logic seems to be: If it’s bad, it was caused by carbon emissions, and we are only going to see more and worse. More and worse floods, droughts, tornadoes, and…
    David Kreutzer
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    Iran’s Saber Rattling on Persian Gulf Likely to Rattle World Oil Markets

    The commander of the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Gen. Alireza Tangsiri, warned on Monday that Iran maintained control of the Persian Gulf and that the U.S. Navy did not belong there. Tangsiri said Iran had full control of the gulf, as well as of the Strait of Hormuz, which leads into it. “We can…
    James Phillips
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    New Report Shows US, Not Countries Promoting Climate Change Activism, Reducing Emissions the Most

    Take a wild guess what country is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan? No, no, no, no, no, and no. The answer to that question is the United States of America. Wow! How can that be? This must be a misprint. Fake news. America never signed the Kyoto…
    Stephen Moore
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    How to Keep the US Natural Gas Boon Going

    America is becoming a major liquefied natural gas exporter. According to the latest statistics, the U.S. liquefied natural gas exports quadrupled from 0.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day in 2016 to 1.94 billion in 2017. Of U.S. liquefied natural gas exports last year, 53 percent went to Mexico, South Korea, and China, with…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    My Viral Climate Change Video Was Smeared as Fake News. Here Are the Facts.

    An environmental scientist who writes a column for The Guardian has claimed that my video on climate change “spreads climate denial misinformation” to millions of viewers on Facebook. Not so. Here is my point-by-point rebuttal to Dana Nuccitelli’s claims in the British newspaper based on my video, which has attracted more than 8 million views and…
    Marc Morano
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    Energy Conferees Shut Down Fuel Economy Mandates as Costly to Consumers

    NEW ORLEANS—Sterling Burnett doesn’t always want to sit next to someone he doesn’t know on a train, plane, or bus. But he’s willing to fight for the freedom of those same strangers when it comes time for them to purchase a motor vehicle. “What I care about is … your freedom to choose the vehicle…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Why a Nation in Turmoil Must Choose Civility

    In 1961, I participated in what one newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, called “one of the most ambitious experiments in race-mixing the South had seen.” With the nation in turmoil, 25 other black students and I helped integrate an all-white junior high school. Outside the school, we faced angry crowds determined to prevent us from getting…
    Kay C. James
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    This Bill Would Ease ‘Recovered’ Species Off the Endangered List

    It will be easier to take wildlife off the endangered and threatened lists if Congress passes a bill introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. “The Endangered Species Act has been used as a sword instead of a shield,” Biggs told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. His bill would streamline the process of removing…
    Jeremiah Poff
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