EnergyCommentary
Two Reasons to Reject Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ for Climate Change
It is difficult to see how a U.S. envoy to Paris for the climate deal will convince the United Nations that Americans support President Obama’s… Read More
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Why North Dakota Is Taking a Different Path in Lawsuit Against Obama’s Clean Power Plan
Almost immediately after the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan was posted on the federal register, dozens of states filed a lawsuit challenging the regulations. But… Read More
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Without Government Subsidy, Electric Car Sales Crash in Georgia
For more than 15 years, Georgia offered one of the country’s most generous tax credits for people who bought electric cars. But the $5,000 subsidy… Read More
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First Nuclear Power Plant in 20 Years: Good News, But No Nuclear Renaissance
It’s been almost 20 years since a new nuclear power plant was licensed to generate electricity in the U.S. Last week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission… Read More
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How a Green Climate Change Fund Would Transfer the Wealth of Nations
Delegates from around the world will meet in Paris in December to negotiate an international climate treaty with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide and… Read More
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Lawmakers Probe Taxpayer-Funded Academic Who Wants Obama to Prosecute Climate Change Skeptics
Taxpayer-funded college professors and researchers who cite climate change to advocate regulations that would raise energy costs for consumers have some explaining to do, congressional… Read More
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How Obama Is Gearing Up to Ignore Lawmakers, Commit US to Significant Carbon Emissions Reductions
Remember that part of the Constitution that gives the executive branch of government the authority to make a commitment with foreign powers to cap carbon… Read More
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Climate Change True Believers Want to Silence Other Viewpoints
Debate. It’s the hallmark of an open society. We may hold different points of view on a certain topic, but we can express those views… Read More
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Solyndra Redux: Another Green Company May Lose Taxpayers Millions
Two weeks ago, Watchdog.org reported that SunEdison, which bills itself as the world’s largest global renewable energy development company, had received at least $2.84 million in… Read More
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Californians on Insane Water Policy: ‘Whatever’
SACRAMENTO—If California flew a state flag that truly represented its popular culture, it’s possible we’d have not the Bear Flag, but a guy shrugging his… Read More
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Obama Is Planning to Circumvent Congress Yet Again on Climate Regulations
President Obama is determined to make a legacy for himself—so much so that he’s willing to go around America’s elected officials on climate change. Not… Read More
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New York Gov. Cuomo Rejects New Evidence, Continues to Forbid Fracking
For officials in the economically depressed region of New York state known as the Southern Tier, two recent hydraulic fracturing studies gave them the slightest… Read More
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The Question Sierra Club’s President Didn’t Want to Answer
Sen. Ted Cruz’s questioning of Sierra Club President Aaron Mair turned contentious Tuesday, then went viral when the Texas Republican posted the nearly 10-minute exchange…. Read More
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Lankford Introduces Bill to Eliminate Wind Tax Credits
The winds could soon be changing on Capitol Hill. Today Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., introduced legislation that would gradually eliminate federal energy tax credits for… Read More
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4 Reasons Congress Needs to Review the EPA’s Ozone Standard
A look at headlines about the EPA’s recently finalized ground level ozone standard quickly and clearly illustrates that Congress’ approach to setting air quality standards… Read More
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New EPA Regulation Causes Concern Even Among Democrats
When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last week it was toughening the country’s rules for ground-level ozone—what’s commonly known as smog, which comes from sources such… Read More
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What the EPA Isn’t Telling You About Its New Ozone Standards
Today, the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) tightened up its ozone standard, from 75 parts per billion to 70 parts per billion. Ozone refers to ground-level… Read More
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California’s Drought: Not an Environmental Problem. An Environmentalist Problem.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—I was walking through downtown Sacramento recently when raindrops started falling. People on the street stopped dead in their tracks, looked up at the sky,… Read More
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The Clean Power Plan Is a Great Way to Make the Poor Poorer
With the pope visiting America, the Obama administration has been adamant in pushing the message that climate change will hit the poor the hardest. They’re… Read More
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Obama Administration Sets Food Waste Reduction Goal
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced an initiative to reduce national food waste by 50 percent by 2030. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Environmental Protection… Read More
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Obama’s Climate Policy Under Scrutiny Amid Pope Francis’ US Visit
Pope Francis arrived at the White House Wednesday morning to call for immediate action on climate change, praising President Barack Obama’s policy agenda. “Mr. President, I… Read More
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‘Not in My Backyard’: Green Energy Mogul Who Opposed Wind Farm Adopts a Different Approach Away From Home
A green energy mogul who protested an offshore wind farm near his summer home on Martha’s Vineyard is criticizing Vermonters who oppose his company’s four-megawatt combined… Read More
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California Governor Vows to Override Democrat-Led Legislature on Climate Change Regulations
Jerry Brown isn’t used to losing in the California Legislature. And even though defections from a raft of fellow Democrats in Sacramento forced the second-term governor… Read More
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Why Democrats Are Wrong to Use the Crude Oil Export Ban as a Bargaining Tactic
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed a bill to lift America’s decades-long ban on crude oil. Three Democrats joined all of the Republicans… Read More
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What Happened When One Company Lowered Its Costs and Improved the Environment? Government Fines.
Here’s how the federal government rewards an energy company for upgrading its power plants to lower costs for families and businesses and improving the environment:… Read More
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Connecticut Homeowners Fight to Prevent City From Taking Their Homes for Redevelopment
Every day, Janet Rodriguez sits at her home in West Haven, Conn., and she waits. She waits for a knock at her front door, a… Read More
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The Fraud Factor of Obama’s New Climate Agenda
Recently, President Obama visited Alaska to scare up support for his climate agenda. But it’s becoming clear that this agenda is not, in fact, about… Read More
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The Lessons From Solyndra Still Haven’t Been Learned
In a letter to Department of Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz this week, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology expressed concern over the use… Read More
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Cartoon: Obama’s Mountain Size Denial
Katie Tubb wrote earlier this week on President Obama’s trip to Alaska: President Obama gave a doom and gloom speech yesterday at the Global Leadership… Read More
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Obama Is Ignoring the Science on Climate Change
President Obama gave a doom and gloom speech yesterday at the Global Leadership in the Arctic (GLACIER) conference in Alaska to build momentum for the… Read More
