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US Electricity System in Regulatory and Terrorist Crosshairs
Opinion -Government agencies are forcing us to spend countless billions on illusory risks and anti-fossil fuel mandates, while ignoring real threats to our livelihoods, living standards and lives.America runs on electricity. -
Nebraska Sues EPA over Power Plant CO2 Restrictions
Opinion -The State of Nebraska has filed a suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for overreaching restrictions on carbon emissions from coal-power plants. -
The Inventor of the Global Warming Hockey Stick Doubles Down
Opinion -Professor Michael Mann, the inventor of the Hockeystick temperature graph, had a contentious editorial essay in the January 17 issue of the New York Times. -
Supreme Court Will Hear Case on EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an important case involving a narrow aspect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other stationary sources of pollution. -
No ‘Incredibly Small’ Wars Against Energy by Obama
Opinion -Look closely at the energy-related news stories of the past dozen or so days, and, between the lines, you’ll see a theme: government makes predictions and assertions that cannot be backed up by data to protect or project preferred messaging. -
The EPA’s War on America
Opinion -Among the targets to disable an enemy’s ability to wage war is their energy infrastructure. -
Duke Energy’s ‘Clean Coal’ Power Plant Off to Bad Start
Opinion -Duke Energy’s “green” initiative to gasify coal for allegedly “cleaner” burning at its Edwardsport, Ind. -
National Research Council: Hydraulic Fracturing Poses Low Risk of Earthquakes
Opinion -The production of oil and natural gas through hydraulic fracturing methods creates only a low risk for inducing earthquakes that can be felt by people, the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes in a new study. -
EPA’s Coal Decision Creates Vulnerability
Opinion -While the Environmental Protection Agency was busy drafting rules to destroy the American coal industry, it overlooked the fact that coal’s greater enemy was already on the hunt. -
Heartland Institute Responds to EPA Emissions Rule
Opinion -Lisa Jackson, administrator of the U.S. -
New Temperature Study Misses the Point
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #28The mainstream media has been spiking the football in the proverbial end zone ever since a paper released October 21 claimed two-thirds of global temperature stations show some warming occurred during the past century. -
Obama’s EPA Goes on Gas Attack
Opinion -On November 15, 2010, President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rules requiring large industries to use the “best available control technology” to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. -
French Academy Lays a Warming Egg
Opinion -The august French Academy has spoken: After a cursory examination of the issue, a single day of selected testimonies, and some internal discussion among admitted non-experts, their Oct. 28 report concluded global warming is “real and anthropogenic. -
Chu Touts Clean Coal to West Virginians
Opinion -Coal will remain an important part of the U.S. energy mix, and clean coal technologies will “save coal” under global warming carbon dioxide restrictions, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told a community forum in Charleston, West Virginia. -
Global Warming Bills Hold Unpleasant Secrets
Opinion -There are a few things the supporters of the House and Senate climate bills apparently do not want you to know. Consider the following.Property Rights DeniedSection 721 of both bills denies property right status to tradable allowances and offset credits. -
Climate Bill Secrets
Opinion -There are a few things the supporters of the House and Senate climate bills apparently do not want you to know. Consider the following. Section 721 of both bills denies property right status to tradable allowances and offset credits. -
Oil and Gas Industry Investing in Emissions Reductions
Opinion -The U.S. oil and gas industry has contributed nearly half of all dollars invested by the nation’s public and private sectors this decade in low-emissions energy technologies. -
Why Pennsylvania’s Sen. Casey Is Wrong on Cap-and-Trade
Opinion -Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) wrote the following letter to a constituent attempting to justify his support for cap-and-trade legislation similar to a bill that recently was passed by the House. -
EPA Should Let the People Speak
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from about 1.2 million new or expanded structures--up from the few thousand buildings it regulates now. -
Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea
Opinion -Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day. -
No End to Energy Stalemate
Opinion -To download a PDF version of this document, click here.In December 2004, the National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) released a report titled "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges. -
Conference Highlights Voluntary Actions on Climate Change
Opinion -A major international conference held November 20-21 in Houston, Texas brought together an impressive array of scientists, federal officials, non-government action groups, and industry leaders to share ideas and report on progress in climate change -
PRESS RELEASE: President Trump’s Embrace of Coal-powered Energy Is ‘the Right Thing for America’
Opinion -Press Release -‘President Trump bringing back coal is the epitome of making America energy independent and dominant again.’ -
Reality Check: Towns and States Don’t Want Green Energy
Opinion -There is a rising tide of opposition to renewable energy from towns, cities, and states in the United States.
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