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    Deep State Strikes, as EPA Employees Who Signed Anti-Trump Letter Sue Over Firing
    In another case of federal bureaucrats challenging elected leaders, seven employees of the Environmental Protection Agency who signed onto a public letter opposing President Donald Trump were eventually ousted. Now they’re suing to get their jobs back. The terminated employees are suing with the backing of the litigation group Democracy Forward. Democrat lawyer Marc Elias…
    Fred Lucas
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    As Europeans Bake, Their Leaders Blame America Instead of Embracing Air Conditioning
    It’s too darn hot across the pond, but Europe’s ruling elites have decided that to remain holier than thou their people need to forgo grubby, American air conditioning. That’s the talk of the internet this Fourth of July week as much of Western Europe recovers from a hellacious heat wave that has claimed the lives…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    MAHA Pushes Glyphosate Ban as EPA Nears New Safety Review
    The Environmental Protection Agency is on track to complete its draft risk assessment of glyphosate by the end of the year. Following the Supreme Court ruling that Monsanto/Bayer can be shielded from liability when users are harmed by their product, the EPA is working to determine if the pesticide is safe. “The EPA is going…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    The EPA Is Unaccountable to the People. Congress Can Rein It In.
    For decades, Americans have lived under a tyranny of unelected bureaucrats. In Trump 2.0, the power of the deep state has been significantly curtailed. But there are still redoubts of unaccountable pencil pushers in the federal government, perhaps nowhere more present than in the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA was created to enforce federal laws,…
    Douglas Blair
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    Nothing in Commonwealth
    As July begins, Virginians brace for higher gas taxes, hoping that the $68 price of a barrel of crude oil will start to bring the price at the pump back down. However, they will very soon be hit with a 7% increase in their electric bills. Iran? No. Trump tariffs? No. This is because, as…
    Joe Thomas
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    Atlas Didn’t Shrug
    In Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” the men and women who keep the world running finally get fed up and walk away. The factories go dark, the trains stop, and the people who spent their lives building things vanish into a hidden valley to let the looters discover what life looks like without them. It’s a…
    Jason Isaac
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    Alaska’s Senate Wants to Raise Your Cost of Energy—Again
    The Iran war has taught us that America needs even more oil and natural gas production to protect consumers from events overseas, but Alaska’s Senate seems intent on reducing production. Lawmakers took a tax reform bill and turned it into a tax hike that risks wrecking investment in the oil and gas industry and ultimately…
    EJ Antoni
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    Conservation Was Always a Conservative Value
    For many years, I was a progressive-leaning vegan chef in Los Angeles. I cared deeply about the environment and believed politics and regulation were the best tools for protecting it. Then I became a farmer. And a conservative. I did not become conservative because I stopped caring about the environment. My commitment to the environment…
    Mollie Engelhart
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    Trump Team Cuts $4 Million in Pro-Illegal Immigrant, DEI, and Green Energy Services
    The Department of the Interior has terminated 43 partnerships with outside organizations that it says no longer align with the Trump administration’s priorities, eliminating more than $4 million in planned funding for programs tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion; environmental justice; and services for illegal immigrants. Led by Secretary Doug Burgum, the department determined the…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    US Will Hit Iran ‘Very Hard’ Tonight
    DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters)—President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would hit Iran “very hard tonight” and wanted eventually to take Iran’s oil infrastructure hub Kharg Island, after tit-for-tat strikes in the Gulf that have undermined a shaky ceasefire. Iranian sources and Western officials said indirect U.S.-Iranian talks on a preliminary peace deal…
    Parisa Hafezi | John Irish | Susan Heavey
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    New Federal Plan Aims to Replace Synthetic Fabrics With American Cotton
    The United States Department of Agriculture has launched the Great American Cotton Plan to support cotton farmers and protect Americans from “forever chemicals” in our daily lives. Over the past decade, America has moved to almost all synthetic fibers, often for clothing and linens made of plastics such as polyester, nylon, polypropylene, and polyethylene. While…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Wall Street’s Dirty Secret: It’s Still Running on a Climate Scenario the UN Just Retired
    The Net-Zero Banking Alliance collapsed in October 2025. The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance fell apart even earlier. By the end of last year, every major U.S. bank had withdrawn from the climate cartel that had spent four years pressuring them to choke off financing to American energy producers. It should have been the end of the story. It…
    Jason Isaac
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    Fairfax School District Prioritizes ‘Green Initiatives’ Over Academic Proficiency
    As Virginia’s largest public school district continues to decline academically, Fairfax County Public Schools’ environmental and sustainability program has exploded in scale since 2020, transforming from a small initiative into a heavily staffed central operation. Meanwhile, despite a $197 million increase from the fiscal year 2026 budget, Fairfax County’s school board members voted last month…
    Stephanie Lundquist-Arora
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    Exxon Wins Shareholder Backing for Legal Move to Texas
    HOUSTON, May 27 (Reuters)—Exxon Mobil shareholders on Wednesday approved the company’s plan to redomicile in Texas, marking a win for the top U.S. oil producer after two leading proxy advisory firms advised investors to strike down the proposal. The oil producer is incorporated in New Jersey, but the company has been headquartered in Texas since…
    Sheila Dang | Arunima Kumar
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    Zeldin Vows to Prevent Another 9/11 Air Poisoning Disaster After LA Fires
    The Environmental Protection Agency misled the public about the dangerous air in New York City following the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, Commissioner Lee Zeldin said. He vowed to prevent a repeat of this disaster in the aftermath of the 2025 California wildfires. “I actually think that’s the worst moment of EPA history was misleading…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    One Biden-Era Policy Reversal Helped Unlock a Record US Oil Lease Sale
    A May report from the Department of the Interior announced the largest onshore lease sale in history of more than 33,000 premium acres in the Permian Basin, generating over $4 billion. Republicans credit the new possibility of American energy dominance to the Trump administration reversing Biden-era energy policy with the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” “This…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Data Centers and the Sale of Dominion Energy
    My inclination when learning about the proposed mega-utility company that would be created when NextEra Energy acquires Dominion Energy—and yes, that is what is proposed—was that this is the predictable growing distance from the consumer of companies that expand and merge and acquire in order to keep up with a federal regulating body that is…
    Joe Thomas
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    The Case for Climate Lawsuits Just Got Weaker
    Climate litigation is having a difficult month.  As plaintiffs suing energy companies for global warming gear up for their upcoming Supreme Court hearing, the plans to extract billions under local tort laws suffered significant setbacks in recent weeks.  Last week, the modeling scenarios used to predict the most dire consequences from global warming were deemed “implausible” by the U.N.’s…
    Kevin Stocklin
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    The Steyer Smear
    Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher. Roger Pielke Jr.’s research on climate and disaster policy wins awards and is cited by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “My views are entirely mainstream,” says Pielke. “My work is cited by all three working groups of the IPCC. There’s…
    John Stossel
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    ‘There’s No Question Prices Are Elevated’: Trump Official Addresses Small Businesses’ Economic Pain
    Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler acknowledged that Americans are facing increased prices but promised that the economy will improve after the military operation in Iran ends.  “There’s no question in recent weeks, prices have bumped up because of rising gas prices due to the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz now,” Loeffler told the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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