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Environment & Energy
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Let’s Use What We Already Have
Opinion -If leaders want to dominate the global AI industry, they ought to build data centers where that infrastructure already exists. -
Energy Literacy: Understanding Crude Oil’s Vital Role
Opinion -Today, American policymakers setting “green” policies are oblivious to the reality that electricity came after the discovery of crude oil, and everything that needs electricity is made with the products made from oil derivatives. -
Climate Change Weekly # 533 —Trump’s Energy and Climate EOs Thus Far: Pt. 2
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Deficiencies in Dominion’s Offshore Wind Permits
Opinion -The Trump administration is currently looking at the history and procedure of offshore wind permits. -
MEDIA ADVISORY: Offshore Wind Projects Could Be Imperiled by Trump’s Executive Orders
Opinion -Press Release -Offshore wind industry should be more worried that even projects started during the Biden administration could be canceled. -
Shovel, Baby, Shovel
Opinion -At least four first-day executive orders were about re-starting domestic energy production, especially one entitled, “Unleashing American energy.” That executive order also includes a less-reported provision called Section 9, related not to oil and gas drilling, but to mining. -
Trump Truth Bombs ‘Green’ Energy (Five EOs)
Opinion -On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed five wide-ranging executive orders that radically change United States energy and climate policy. -
Planet Earth’s Natural Resources Are Limited to Its 8 Billion Residents
Opinion -Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, the few wealthy countries are extracting natural resources at alarming rates, and they are NOT being replenished. -
Confusion Grows Over Offshore Wind Controls
Opinion -Confusion is the price of progress. -
Climate Change Weekly # 532 — Energy, Climate Top Agenda Items for Trump’s Busy First Days: Pt. 1
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Western Offshore Wind EIS is MIA
Opinion -In summary the so-called California Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement is nothing of the kind. The full Offshore Wind Program needs to be assessed for the entire West Coast before any project is approved for construction. This required assessment is Missing in Action. -
Scapegoating Climate to Hide Callous Government Interference
Opinion -The Palisades and Malibu wildfires are a doubly horrific tragedy, because the death and devastation could largely have been prevented. -
America Needs to Reestablish Its World-Leading Manifestation of Nuclear-Generated Electricity
Opinion -American ingenuity advanced nuclear technology to a world-class innovation to benefit all. Interestingly, the methods used in the rest of the world are copies of the American innovations. -
New Paper by The Heartland Institute Dissects How Carbon Capture and Storage Projects Threaten Property Rights
Opinion -Press Release -Capturing and storing carbon dioxide is also a massive waste of resources and causes other harms. -
The Heartland Institute Applauds President Trump’s Executive Orders on Climate and Energy Policy
Opinion -With a flurry of signatures, Trump wiped out every vestige of his predecessor’s policies. -
Sodom and Gomorrah, California: America Previews the Wages of Arrogance and Incompetence
Opinion -During these past few days, our nation has had a dramatic preview of a community that has entrusted its civic institutions for way too long to arrogant, incompetent ideologues who failed to provide the needed services to protect its citizens. Residents of Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for their evil ways; voters in the […] -
Climate Change Weekly #531 – Suggestions for the New Executive Agency Heads
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Climate Change Weekly #530 – Are Net Zero’s Days Numbered?—Heartland Comes to Europe
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
15 Questions That Will Put an End to the ‘Climate Scare’ Once-and-for-All
Opinion -To support the growth of health and prosperity worldwide for the 8 billion on this planet in the coming decades, and the increasing demand for electricity, and for the 6,000+ products in our materialistic society, and for the various transportation fuels ⏤ will challenge humanity’s creativity to support the supply chains to meet those growing […] -
America Needs a Subzero Blackout Prevention Program
Opinion -Switching from coal to gas has made us vulnerable to cold weather blackouts. We need a program to address and cure this vulnerability. Action at both the State and Federal levels will be needed. New coal-fired power may be part of the answer. -
Climate Change Weekly # 529 – Bad Estimates of Solar Activity and Temperatures Undermine Climate Change Projections
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Trump Expected to Annihilate California’s ‘Green Mandates’ — the Most Radical in the World
Opinion -President-elect Trump recognizes a key fact that Newsom does not recognize, that there is no known “replacement” to fossil fuels that supports the materialistic demands of the population and economy. Thus, most “green” movements are projected to be obliterated after Trump’s January 20th inauguration. -
The Heartland Institute Solidifies Its Global Impact by Founding ‘Heartland UK/Europe’
Opinion -Press Release -We are officially establishing a beach-head overseas to fight for global freedom with Heartland UK/Europe. -
Time is on Colorado’s Side – No Need to Rush
Opinion -The ultimate “protection” for Colorado and the other Upper Basin states (Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico) is rigid enforcement of the existing interstate compact, which has governed distribution since 1922.