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    Biden’s Electric Vehicle Mandate Will Leave Western States’ Drivers Stranded

    Temperatures are over 100 degrees this month in Twin Falls, Idaho, sapping the distance electric vehicles can travel. EVs in the Gem State remain relegated to the back seat when it comes to consumers’ choice in vehicles, despite a new Environmental Protection Agency mandate requiring that 70% of new cars sold be all electric by…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    A Republican Admin Would Eliminate Costly Energy Mandates

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—As Republicans and Democrats meet at the conventions and propose policies for the next four years, the contrast between Republican and Democrat energy policies could not be greater. Republicans would speed up oil and natural gas production; eliminate mandates to purchase electric vehicles; get rid of subsidies for renewables; and end dependence on China. Democrats…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Impending Japanese Sale of US Dollars Could Trigger Major US Economic Turmoil

    Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Japan is on the verge of a fire sale of hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. debt that could crash Treasury markets already teetering on the edge. Just another exciting day for de-dollarization as Japan’s collapse…
    Peter St. Onge
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    Virginia Breaks Free From California’s Electric Vehicle Mandate

    Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced recently that Virginia would decouple from California’s onerous mandate requiring all new vehicles sold in the commonwealth to be electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles (EVs) by 2035. This regulation—a ban on sales of new gas, diesel and traditional hybrid vehicles—promulgated by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), would have taken effect as…
    Chet Thompson
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    Energy Innovation Is Key to Prosperity

    In a recent report, “Powering Human Advancement,” The Heritage Foundation laid bare the truth that the driving force behind wealth creation and raising human development standards is the innovative harnessing of energy. As historian Vaclav Smil sees it, “Energy is the only universal currency.” Therefore, policymakers should endeavor to allow their citizens abundant access to…
    Miles Pollard
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    Gaslight: 4 Times the Media Tried to Tell You Biden’s Health Wasn’t a Problem

    The longtime media and Democratic Party gaslighting over President Joe Biden’s health decline has finally imploded. The mask fully came off Thursday night as the narrative about Biden being A-OK collapsed in an excruciating 90-minute “debate” with former President Donald Trump. By now, you’ve likely at least seen some video clips of it, so I…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    American Parents Coalition Chief Counsels Moms, Dads on Explaining Culture Wars to Children

    Parents—not schools—should be in control of how they introduce and discuss the cultural push for radical gender ideology to their children, says Alleigh Marré, executive director of the American Parents Coalition. The American Parents Coalition focuses on education, culture, and health care through the lens of parental rights. The group gives parents tools on how…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Media Is Gaslighting You About Biden’s Obvious Signs of Decline. Here’s Why It Won’t Work.

    The Left’s media narrative factory is working overtime on its latest and greatest attempt at gaslighting. OK, here it is, here’s the whopper you have to believe to be an ally of “our democracy” in good standing: President Joe Biden is fit as a fiddle, yes siree. All those videos you’ve seen of him staring…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Biden’s Hypocrisy on Climate Change Painfully Obvious

    President Joe Biden repeatedly has called climate change an “existential threat,” worse than nuclear weapons. Yet, Biden’s green energy mandates result in a greater U.S. demand for wind turbines, solar panels, and electric batteries from China, made by coal-fired power plants, increasing the emissions Biden criticizes at home. The United Nations Environment Programme estimates that in the absence of…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Fact Check: Is Climate Change Really Causing More Frequent or More Severe Hurricanes?

    Every year at this time, when hurricane season rolls around, corporate media start pumping out headlines linking the severity of hurricanes to climate change. But is there causation or correlation? And if changes in the climate do affect hurricanes, is it in the way climate activists claim? Climatologist David Legates says, “[If] we have colder…
    Virginia Allen
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    New EPA Rule Is a Death Sentence for American Energy 

    The Environmental Protection Agency plays judge, jury, and executioner—and its newest-issued rule is a death sentence to American energy and energy-producing states. Meanwhile, states like Pennsylvania, which will be disproportionately harmed by the rule because of our abundant natural gas production, hold the key to America’s increasing energy needs, generating immense economic development and reducing…
    Andre Beliveau
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    Stadium-Sized ‘Day of Gratitude’ Event Set in Las Vegas for Military Personnel, Veterans

    At an event expected to be the largest of its kind in Nevada history, 15,000 military service members, veterans, and their families will be treated to world-class entertainment, millions of dollars in gifts, and an array of activities at the NFL Las Vegas Raiders’ stadium on Saturday.  With the maximum number of free tickets already…
    Olivia Pero
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    Pittsburgh Provides Example of How Biden Energy Policies Help China

    Countries around the world, especially America’s top adversary, China, are eager to replicate the success of Pittsburgh’s powerhouse energy industry. The Biden administration’s green agenda is helping them do just that, and at Pittsburgh’s expense. In the name of fighting climate change and decarbonization, the Biden administration is promulgating a series of rules requiring electric…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Spoiled Children Have Seized the Colleges We Pay For

    Starting at Columbia University and spreading across elite universities, pro-Hamas protesters have taken over their campuses, erecting tent cities and blocking the normal operations of their schools. Worse, they have targeted Jewish students with threats of violence, organized human chains to push “Zionists” out of public spaces, and sent a Jewish student to the hospital after stabbing…
    Jay Greene
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    Left-Wing Environmentalists Score Another Victory in Their Jihad Against Energy

    President Joe Biden has pledged to reduce carbon emissions to “net zero” in the U.S. electricity sector by 2035. This fantastical plan is, we are told, advancing along two tracks simultaneously. On one side is a systematic reduction of fossil fuel usage; on the other, a push to deploy renewable energy substitutes. Of course, the…
    Mario Loyola
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    Biden’s Energy Policies Undermine US Environmental Leadership

    At the start of the year, President Joe Biden announced an indefinite ban on liquified natural gas exports (LNG) out of supposed concern for the environment. The U.S., however, is the leading producer of oil and natural gas and also the leading exporter of LNG. So, ironically, in pausing LNG exports in an effort to…
    Rep. Ron Estes
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    In California, Newsom’s Energy Experiment Goes Awry

    This Earth Day, which falls on Monday, California residents must be glad that their state accounts for less than 1% of the greenhouse gas emissions of the top 50 countries. Yet Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, still wants to achieve 100% net-zero carbon electricity by 2045. With the highest effective poverty rate in America and some of the nation’s highest electricity costs, Newsom’s top priority…
    Miles Pollard
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    On Earth Day, EPA Pushes Truck Rule That Will Hurt Workers and Businesses, Not Help Planet

    On this Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating its new emissions standard for heavy-duty trucks as a triumph for the environment. The irony is, this policy will do nothing for our planet, but it will inflict severe economic damage on hardworking Americans. The EPA’s latest rule, while not explicitly mandating production of electric-powered…
    Andrew Weiss
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    Biden’s Ill-Advised Alaska Oil Ban Bodes Continued Pain at Pump

    Earth Day is Monday, and once again President Joe Biden is putting the American people last and environmentalists first with Friday’s actions making swaths of Alaska off limits to the development of oil, natural gas, and critical minerals.   America’s air is getting cleaner every year, and carbon emissions have declined by 1,000 million metric…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    A Story of the Soil and the Soul

    Hard work, passion, virtue, and true grit earmark the American heartland. Anecdotes, generation-spanning farm families, and crop innovations speak volumes. They are all children of agriculture. Farming teaches faith in God, food cultivation, animal husbandry, the value of love, the richness of relationships, and the growth of character. Farming offers time for reflection—an Aristotelian balance…
    Armstrong Williams
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