Commentary
Why the Green Agenda Is Crumbling
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
EnergyNews
California ‘Green Accounting’ Rule on CO2 Can Cost Companies Nationwide Billions, With No Benefit to Environment
California is leading the resistance against President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda with new rules that will force companies operating in the state to produce audited… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Twisting the Truth: Extreme Weather and the Climate Narrative
As America braces for another storm season, only the media storms are more predictable than upcoming hurricanes and tornadoes. Even before the dust settles after… Read More
EnergyCommentary
America Needs Oil Exploration in Alaska
America faces an energy emergency—namely, a weakening electricity grid with the potential for blackouts. That’s why President Donald Trump has proposed rescinding a Biden-era rule… Read More
EnergyCommentary
How Climate Activists Are Actually Harming the Environment
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the United States has become a leader in protecting the environment and the preservation of nature. Most don’t… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Here’s the ‘Green’ Fuel the Left Refuses to Celebrate This Earth Day
As Earth Day approaches on Tuesday, climate activists remind us of the importance of cutting carbon emissions. Yet, one inconvenient truth escapes their green-tinged talking… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Study Debunks Climate Doomsday Predictions on Crop Yields, Mass Starvation
For two decades, the public has been bombarded with dire warnings of an impending climate-induced agricultural apocalypse. The claim is that a climate warmed excessively… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Daylight Saving Time: A Metaphor for Government Idiocy
In the wee, small hours of Sunday morning, most of the United States engaged in the semiannual idiocy known as daylight saving time. “The typical… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Doug Burgum Is the Energy Expert Interior Needs
Sprawled across our beautiful nation, more than 500 million acres of public land are entrusted to the Department of the Interior. A nearly incomprehensible amount… Read More
EnergyNews
Nonprofits Influence Climate Litigation Against Major Energy Companies
Over 30 lawsuits, modeled after the tobacco cases of the 1990s, have been filed by state, county, and city attorneys against energy companies seeking damages… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Electricity Affordability, Reliability at Stake With ‘Green Energy’ Push
Imagine that you are faced with a choice: Keep using a reliable source of energy or switch to one that produces 2% as much and… Read More
EnergyCommentary
While Europeans Vacation, Denmark Attacks Livestock Farmers With Cow Tax
As Europeans generate greenhouse gas emissions by driving or flying off on their long summer holidays, Denmark is trying to lower those emissions by taxing… Read More
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… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Virginia Breaks Free From California’s Extreme Car Restrictions
In a move that’s good news for drivers nationwide, Virginia has declared its independence from California’s latest automotive standards. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Biden’s Latest Power Plant Power Grab
Almost two years after a similar rule was rejected by the Supreme Court, the Biden administration on Thursday released another final rule for regulating America’s… Read More
EnergyCommentary
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… Read More
EnergyCommentary
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… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Kill Switch
Soon the government might shut down your car. President Joe Biden’s new “bipartisan infrastructure law” gives bureaucrats that power. You probably didn’t hear about that… Read More
EnergyNews
Organization That Wants to Cut Carbon Emissions Sues to Close Zero-Emission Nuclear Power Plant
An environmentalist nonprofit that seeks to cut carbon emissions and promote clean energy is suing to stop the Biden administration from funding a zero-emission power… Read More
EconomyCommentary
US Auto Industry Faces Grim Future as Biden’s EPA Sets EV Mandates
Not since Prohibition has the federal government sought to ban a product as popular as the internal combustion engine. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency… Read More
LawCommentary
Legal Challenges Follow SEC Adoption of Costly, Burdensome Climate Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday adopted a final rule to require public companies to disclose climate-related information in financial statements and other reports… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Climate Conundrum of Project Tundra: More Emissions Than Solutions
A “green energy” project in rural North Dakota is yet another such initiative that misses the mark. Despite the Energy Department’s admission that the Tundra… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Senate Opens Door to Massive Carbon Tax Despite Critical Economic Concerns
This week, Congress took a step toward passing a carbon tax—an inflationary, regressive tax on all products that would lower economic growth; make all Americans… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Nuclear Provides Way to Decarbonize Without Sacrificing Energy Affordability, Reliability
On the heels of the United Nations Climate Change Conference last month in Dubai, it’s clear that nuclear energy’s role in achieving a clean energy… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Mind-Bogglingly Costly Green Boondoggles Leave Carbon, Temperatures Virtually Untouched
Through Dec. 12, the “Climate!” crowd is swarming COP28, Dubai’s carbophobia cavalcade. (COP28 refers to the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Auto Dealers Call on Biden to Hit Brakes on Unrealistic, Unachievable Electric Vehicles Mandate
A coalition of nearly 4,000 auto dealers on Tuesday sent a letter to President Joe Biden explaining why his plans to force Americans into electric… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Mounting Evidence That ‘Net-Zero’ Carbon Emissions Isn’t Achievable
Arizona State University President Michael Crow believes we are in such danger that we should amend the U.S. Constitution to empower the government to deal… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Biden’s ‘War on Fossil Fuels’ Out of Step With Geopolitical Realities, Energy Policy Analysts Say
With the Russia-Ukraine war and the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel underscoring the urgent need for renewed U.S. oil and gas development, now would be… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Woke Duke Energy Jacks Up Electric Rates to Pay for ESG, Zero Carbon Mandates
Duke Energy has thrown consumers under the proverbial (electric) bus to make their operations carbon neutral by 2050. As a result, electricity prices in North… Read More
EnergyCommentary
UK’s Onshore Wind Scheme Could Backfire, With Far More Potent Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Shortly after naming Claire Coutinho as secretary of state for energy security and net zero on Aug. 31, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a… Read More
