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St. Louis Residents Are Battling the City to Keep Their Homes
Residents in a North St. Louis, Mo., community are battling to keep their homes as city officials pursue eminent domain proceedings for a federal project… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Destroy Navajo Nation Jobs
The federal government and its allies are choosing dubious environmental prescriptions to effectively impose a new tax on electricity, increasing the costs of energy on all… Read More
EnergyCommentary
GOP Senator’s Energy Bill Is Not So ‘Clean’
Some Senate appropriators are already settling for business as usual going into the federal budget process. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has stated that only a… Read More
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Teddy Roosevelt Still Hurts Farmers Today, Property Rights Advocate Says
American farmers haven’t had the benefit of operating under a free market system since the early 20th century, property rights advocate Joel Salatin says. A critical… Read More
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House Probe Reveals Audit Detailing Climate Change Researcher’s ‘Double Dipping’
Congressional investigators have obtained an internal audit from George Mason University that suggests that one of its professors—a major proponent of man-made climate change—mismanaged millions… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Senate Energy Bill Will Only Increase Government Cronyism
Do we need a national energy plan? Many politicians think so. In fact, the Senate is considering a massive new energy bill that’s more than… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Inconvenient Facts the Media Ignore About Climate Change
Americans in large numbers are turning off TV newscasts, canceling subscriptions to newspapers, and seeking other sources of news. Distrust of the national media has… Read More
EnergyNews
What the Defeat of a Wind Energy Project Means for Harry Reid’s Hometown
Grassroots conservationists and property rights activists in Nevada stand poised to secure an unprecedented legal victory over government-backed wind energy proponents that could reverberate across… Read More
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Report Exposes EPA’s ‘Pattern of Deception’ in Colorado Mine Spill
Two federal agencies put out misinformation and inconsistent explanations of the government’s role in the Gold King Mine blowout and water contamination in Colorado last summer,… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Supreme Court Halts Obama’s Aggressive Climate Agenda
In a major setback to the Obama administration’s climate agenda, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Clean… Read More
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US Bound by Climate Change Deal That Skirts Constitution, House Panel Told
President Barack Obama bound the United States to an international agreement on climate change, but the administration’s decision to circumvent Congress to implement the deal… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Finally, America May Be Catching On to Ethanol Racket
The results of the Iowa caucus proved that even Iowans—long seen as fervent proponents of ethanol—don’t view Washington’s favoritism to it as necessarily still required…. Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Biggest Loser in Iowa
One of the biggest losers in Iowa this week wasn’t officially on the presidential ballot. I’m talking about ethanol subsidies. Political wisdom has always said… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Lifting the Crude Oil Ban Shows America Is Open for Business
The first shipment of American crude oil has reached European markets. This comes only a month after Congress took a big step toward a more… Read More
EnergyNews
West Virginia Turns to Prayer as Obama’s ‘Clean Power’ Looms
CHARLESTON, W.Va.—There’s little separation between church and the fossil fuel industry in West Virginia’s coal country. Still reeling from recent mine shutdowns, the state legislature… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Why 25 States Have Asked Supreme Court to Halt This Costly EPA Regulation
Twenty-five states (and four state agencies) are petitioning the Supreme Court to halt the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Clean Power Plan, after the Court of… Read More
EnergyCommentary
5 Reasons Why Senate Energy Modernization Bill Is Anything but Modern
Several senators want to advance a massive energy bill called the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015. But there’s nothing modern about the legislation. The… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Another Government-Caused Water Crisis and Cover-Up
Flint, Mich., may be another case (similar to the Environmental Protection Agency Gold King Mine spill) of negligent government behavior that would raise criminal prosecution… Read More
EnergyCommentary
2 Reasons US Having 2nd Hottest Year in 2015 Doesn’t Prove Climate Catastrophe Is Imminent
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released data showing that 2015 was the second hottest year on record (since 1895) for the U.S. On… Read More
EnergyNews
Conservatives Agree Standoff in Oregon Elevates Debate on Federal Land Ownership
As protesters continue to engage in a standoff against the government at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, conservatives agree the events have elevated the debate… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama’s Climate Deal Leaves Blue-Collar, Rural Voters Out in the Cold
The past few weeks have been a remarkable time in environmental politics. Green groups have joined President Barack Obama in celebrating the global climate agreement reached… Read More
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State Lawmakers Urged to Question Taxpayer-Subsidized Climate ‘Alarmists’
HOT SPRINGS, Va.—Conservative lawmakers, scholars, and activists say it’s time for the Virginia General Assembly to look into the taxpayer funding of academics and scientists… Read More
EnergyCommentary
John Kerry Proves He Doesn’t Understand Climate Science
In an interview at the close of the recent Paris climate conference, Secretary of State John Kerry scolded Republican senators for saying out loud that… Read More
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California Governor Hails ‘Coercive Power of Government’
California Gov. Jerry Brown raised some eyebrows while attending the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris this month, proclaiming that the “coercive power of the central… Read More
EnergyCommentary
How UN Conferences Have Created a False Climate Narrative
Last week in Paris, I had the pleasure of speaking at an event hosted by the Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and Committee… Read More
Energy News
Republicans to Keep Trying to Block Obama’s International Climate Change Deal
Republicans upset with President Barack Obama’s international climate change agreement remain committed to the few options they have to do something about it. “Honestly, I… Read More
EnergyCommentary
A Vote for Green Climate Fund in Omnibus Spending Bill Is a Vote for Paris Agreement
What better time than Christmas to spend other people’s money and give presents to the environmental activists? In addition to the other generous handouts renewable… Read More
EnergyCommentary
5 Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Keep Subsidizing Wind And Solar Energy
Proponents of energy subsides argue that they are necessary for any number of reasons, such as business certainty, to stimulate the economy, to preserve jobs,… Read More
EnergyNews
Regional Spats, ‘Climate Justice’ Hijack Paris Talks on Global Warming
PARIS—Competing national interests and even personal rivalries have cast a cloud over the international summit on climate change meeting here, and the issue of “climate justice” has… Read More
EnergyCommentary
John Kerry’s Surprising Comments on International Regulations and Climate Change
Although he probably didn’t mean to, Secretary of State John Kerry made a compelling case for why the U.S. and other countries should not go… Read More
