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    Newsom Is Murdering California’s Energy Industry

    When I was growing up, many Americans viewed California as the sunny state with unlimited resources, an entrepreneurial spirit that inspired people across the country, and energy sources that the U.S. and the world desperately needed. Today’s California is the exact opposite of that, and it’s truly a shame. Everyone can see that California Gov….
    Rep. Cynthia Lummis
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    Is Thorium the Future of Nuclear Energy?

    What if the future of energy has been sitting unused on the periodic table for decades? Mike Anderson, author of “Thorium-Powered Abundance,” believes it has. He talked with Jack Spencer on a recent episode of “The Power Hour” podcast about the amazing potential of thorium. This exciting element has the power to reshape the nuclear…
    Jack Spencer
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    Putin Testing ‘American Resolve’ With Oil Tanker in Caribbean 

    A Russian oil tanker moving toward Cuba during a U.S. oil blockade is an act of Russian President Vladimir Putin testing “American resolve,” according to one foreign affairs expert. Russia’s Anatoly Kolodkin tanker, carrying an estimated 730,000 barrels of crude oil, has reportedly sailed toward Cuba’s port of Matanzas but, according to United Press International,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Oklahoma Governor Reveals Markwayne Mullin Senate Replacement

    Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has announced that Alan Armstrong, an energy executive, will fill the vacant Senate seat left by Markwayne Mullin until the end of the year. Armstrong, 63, has never held public office and is the executive chairman of Williams Companies, an energy firm that specializes in natural gas. Mullin’s seat was left open…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Paul Ehrlich’s Failed Doomsday Predictions Expose the Media’s Climate Alarmism Double Standard

    When Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich appeared on “60 Minutes” in 2023, he warned that humanity was on an unsustainable path and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.” He explicitly linked overpopulation and consumption to climate disruption, claiming it was already killing people.  Ehrlich recently…
    Frank Lasee
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    How the Upcoming Moon Mission Transcends Anti-Scientific Climate Activism  

    The U.S. is poised to return to the moon this coming April as part of a reenergized manned space program that is emboldened rather than deterred by the risks and challenges irrevocably attached to the mission.   By pressing ahead, NASA and its many public and private sector partners are allowing scientific evidence rather than speculation to guide their decisions. They are also making a clean break with a concept known as the “precautionary principle” that has…
    Kevin Mooney
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    EXCLUSIVE: Bill to Dismantle Taxpayer-Funded Democrat ‘Talent Pipeline’ Expected to Pass House Committee

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A House committee will likely pass a bill to reform a taxpayer-funded scholarship that critics call a “talent pipeline for the Democratic Party and liberal activist organizations,” a committee spokesperson told The Daily Signal. The spokesperson for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce predicted that the bill will pass…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    AGs Demand Probe Into Taxpayer-Funded Climate Training for Judges

    Two dozen Republican state attorneys general called on the Trump administration to investigate what they say is the use of tax dollars to influence judges in climate cases. The state attorneys general, in a letter to Trump Cabinet officials, point to federal grants issued by the National Science Foundation to the National Academies of Sciences,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Dire Straits for Midterms? Gas Price Surge Troubles Senators

    Amid uncertainty in a vital global shipping lane brought on by the conflict with Iran, gas pump prices are way up. Some in Congress think that could be a problem for their constituents and for Republicans’ chances in the midterms. “Naturally, we’re all really concerned,” Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., told The Daily Signal of the…
    George Caldwell
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    ‘A Disruption on the Way to a Much Better Place’: Energy Secretary Dismisses ‘Fiction’ About Energy Shortages

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secretary of Energy Chris Wright called the American conflict with Iran “a disruption” on the path to lower energy costs on “Fox News Sunday.” Tankers stopped transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway which separates the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, after Iran launched missile and drone strikes in retaliation for those…
    Harold Hutchison
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    All-Hands-on-Deck Energy Policy

    Power demand is increasing for the first time in decades, and there is no sign of slowing down. Whether it’s artificial intelligence, a growing economy, or traditional industrial power users, American families and businesses need more power. The problem is that through regulation, policy mandates, and subsidies, policymakers have made expanding our electricity grid in…
    Jack Spencer
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    US Will Take Action to Mitigate Oil Price Spike for Americans, Rubio Says

    REUTERS—The United States will take action to mitigate rising energy prices due to a spike in the price of oil caused by the Iran conflict, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Rubio said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright would announce the plans on Tuesday. “Starting tomorrow,…
    Jasper Ward
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    Vicious Attacks Look to Turn the Tide in Texas Primaries

    New attack ads from candidates in the race for Texas’ Senate seat, along with recent polling, have brought the race to a boiling point. Republican Candidates Get Vicious On Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, released an ad against his primary opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, for “cheating on his wife” and “now sleeping around…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    The Climate Fox in the Judicial Henhouse

    For decades, judicial education has served a narrow but vital purpose: helping judges understand complex technical issues without telling them how to rule. That boundary matters. Once judicial education becomes advocacy, courts stop acting as neutral arbiters and begin functioning as instruments of policy enforcement. The Federal Judicial Center crossed that line. In endorsing the…
    Jason Isaac
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    Pro-Corn Congressmen Fight to Put E15 Fuel on Market

    A congressional task force soon plans to release a compromise between corn farmer and oil refinery interests that could reshape the American energy industry. “They’re going great,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal on Wednesday of talks to secure nationwide authorization for the year-round sale of E15, a gasoline whose composition is…
    George Caldwell
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    Rep. Balderson Discusses Ohio’s Key Role in Energy

    While Victor Davis Hanson recovers, his show goes on, and with a connection to Ohio. In the latest episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” co-host Jack Fowler speaks with Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, on Ohio’s energy boom and the future of America’s energy industry. Fowler explains that Balderson’s role as chairman of…
    Rebecca Downs
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    The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Eviscerate Climate Lawfare

    Climate alarmism has lost at the ballot box time and time again, and last year, even Bill Gates significantly dialed down his support for it. However, enterprising lawyers on the Left are still trying to smuggle in an effective carbon tax through the courts—and the Supreme Court should put an end to it. It works…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    SEISMIC: A Detransitioner’s $2M Jury Verdict Threatens Child Mutilation Pipeline

    A recent jury verdict marks the first tremor in a building earthquake that may sever the transgender child mutilation pipeline, setting the stage for a host of lawsuits that threaten to end the medical establishment’s promotion of “gender-affirming care.” Transgender activists push gender confusion and child mutilation in the name of “civil rights,” but we…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The United States Must Maintain Oil Investment Amid Global Instability

    Serious crises in oil-producing countries are pushing markets to finally price in geopolitical risk. As of Jan. 21, West Texas Intermediate crude is over $60 per barrel, reflecting only the faintest acknowledgement of unrest in Iran despite weeks of escalating protests, estimates of 3,000 to 20,000 people dead, and a complete internet blackout. Recognizing geopolitical risk cannot…
    Trisha Curtis
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    Is the Climate Scare Narrative Headed for Bankruptcy?

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Writing at Axios, energy writer Amy Harder says, “The climate agenda’s fall from grace over the past year has been stunning—in speed, scale and scope.” Harder quotes oil historian and S&P Global vice-chairman Dan Yergin as saying, “There’s no handwaving about how ‘We want to cooperate on climate.’ It’s, ‘We’re slamming the door…
    David Blackmon
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