EnergyCommentary
Kosovo Should Get the Coal Plant It Needs
Consider the World Bank’s allegedly nuanced ban on coal absolute now. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim stated last week the organization has “made a… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Climate Alarmists Admit They Want to Dismantle Our Free Enterprise System
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is warning that the dire costs of climate change are going to be here sooner than we… Read More
EnergyNews
It’s a ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ as Hurricane Michael Nears Category 5 Strength Before Landfall
Hurricane Michael is on the brink of Category 5 strength—a “worst-case scenario” for Florida’s panhandle, according to forecasters. Packing 150-mph winds, Michael was expected to… Read More
EnergyCommentary
E15’s Not the Problem. Special Treatment for Ethanol Is.
The Trump administration’s intention to authorize year-round sale of gasoline blended with a 15 percent ethanol mixture, announced Monday, perpetuates bad energy policy, both economically… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Reflections on Vogtle’s Perennial Drama
Some of the dust is beginning to settle after another projected cost increase of the Vogtle power station in Georgia, where the only two nuclear… Read More
EnergyNews
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,… Read More
EnergyNews
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… Read More
EnergyCommentary
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,… Read More
EnergyNews
Virginia Governor Set to Bypass Legislature to Join State-Based Climate Agreement
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is poised to implement a new regulation without legislative approval to join 10 other states in a climate change agreement based… Read More
EnergyCommentary
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… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Taxpayers Are Subsidizing Golf Courses and Baseball Fields. It’s Time to End That.
The federal Land and Water Conservation Fund is set to expire at the end of the month unless Congress acts to reauthorize it. Both the… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama Was Wrong on Oil. We Did ‘Drill Our Way Out of the Problem.’
When gas prices topped $4 per gallon in May 2011, President Barack Obama said, “We can’t just drill our way out of the problem.” Throughout… Read More
EnergyCommentary
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… Read More
EnergyNews
Government for Hire? Emails Show ‘Climate Industry’ Funds Jobs in Offices of Governors, Attorneys General
California Gov. Jerry Brown is host of a three-day “Global Climate Action Summit” in San Francisco organized by an “activist donor network” that has burrowed… Read More
EnergyCommentary
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,… Read More
EnergyCommentary
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… Read More
EnergyCommentary
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… Read More
Energy Analysis
The Daily Signal Podcast: Wednesday, Aug. 22
The Environmental Protection Agency has a new rule out—and unlike a rule from the Obama era, this one is friendly to coal producers. But The… Read More
EnergyNews
EPA Moves to Scrap Obama Mandates for Power Plant Emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency accelerated the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda Tuesday by announcing a proposed rule to replace the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Plan” with… Read More
Trump’s Rollback of CAFE Mandates Is a Big Win for Car Buyers, Consumer Choice
The Trump administration recently proposed the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule. The proposed rule offers modifications to Obama-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards… Read More
EnergyNews
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… Read More
EnergyNews
Russian Reaction to Trump’s Energy Policies Echoes Soviet Opposition to Reagan’s Missile Defense
NEW ORLEANS—President Donald Trump’s policy of unleashing American energy through deregulation has unsettled the Russian government in much the same way Ronald Reagan’s proposed space-based… Read More
Energy Analysis
Podcast: California Not Happy With Trump’s Regulation Rollbacks
On today’s edition of The Daily Signal podcast, Ginny Montalbano and Daniel Davis interview Heritage Foundation economist Nick Loris, who focuses on energy, environmental, and… Read More
EnergyNews
Trump Administration’s Fuel Economy Proposal Bucks California in Bid to Spur New Car Purchases
American consumers who want safe, affordable vehicles will find new models with improved technology becoming less costly if a federal rule amending standards for fuel… Read More
EnergyNews
San Francisco Joins Nationwide Push Against Plastic Straws
San Francisco passed an ordinance Tuesday prohibiting local store fronts from selling or distributing plastic straws as more cities jump aboard a nationwide push to… Read More
EnergyCommentary
New Study Claims Global Warming Will Cause Thousands More to Commit Suicide
A July study claims that thousands more people will commit suicide in the coming decades due to man-made global warming. Published in the journal Nature… Read More
EnergyCommentary
How ‘Green’ Energy Subsidies Transfer Wealth to the Rich
When the Golden State Warriors, who won three of the last four NBA championships, signed All-Star Demarcus Cousins, sports pundits across the country offered the… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Good and Bad Environmental Amendments to the ‘Minibus’ Bill
This week, the House of Representatives is expected to bring to the floor its second “minibus” package of the appropriations season. The bill combines the… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Why the ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax Is Still a Non-Starter
It feels like beating a dead horse, but the “conservative” carbon tax proposal is still hanging around. A number of conservative groups are so tired… Read More
EnergyNews
Starbucks Joins the Anti-Straw Craze
Starbucks plans to stop using plastic straws at all of its stores worldwide within the next two years. The global coffee chain will eliminate all… Read More
