Pruitt Sounds Death Knell for Scandalous “Sue-and-Settle” at EPA

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One of the reasons the Cornwall Alliance supported President Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt, at the time Oklahoma Attorney General, as Administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was that Pruitt “publicly opposed the abuse of the court system by use of ‘sue-and-settle’ to reach sweetheart deals between the EPA and environmental advocacy […]

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Environmentalist Lobby Goes After Another Trump Nominee For Being A Christian

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Remember when Bernie Sanders passionately attacked budget office nominee Russell Vought because Vought believes salvation comes only by faith in Jesus Christ—something Christianity has taught for two millennia? It looks like it’s open season for anti-Christian bigots to hunt down and destroy any Christian nominated to public office—especially if that Christian doesn’t toe the line of environmental

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Is Sea Level Rising?

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Fears of accelerating sea level rise (SLR) due to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are rampant nowadays—often the primary phenomenon in people’s minds when they think of potential ill effects of AGW. The image above, created by NASA to show what lands would be inundated by a hypothetical 70-foot SLR, thought by some to be in

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People of the State of California v. British Petroleum P.L.C. et al.

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  You might—or then you might not—have heard recently of two lawsuits filed in separate jurisdictions in California lately called People of the State of California v. British Petroleum P.L.C. et al., by San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera and Oakland city attorney Barbara J. Parker. They allege that BP and other “big oil” companies are

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Is 2017 Really the First Year since 1850 with Two Category-4 U.S. Landfall Hurricanes?

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Keeping up the (false) drumbeat that manmade global warming is causing more frequent and stronger hurricanes, lots of media outlets, following the spectacular Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, have proclaimed 2017 the first time in the 166 years of records in which two Category-4 hurricanes made landfall on the mainland United States in the same year. Among

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Arctic sea ice—shrinking due to manmade global warming?

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Although global warming alarmists have claimed that Arctic sea ice is diminishing rapidly—indeed, at unprecedented rates—the actual facts seem otherwise. That’s the gist of a new post by Ron Clutz at Science Matters. This chart niftily sums up the facts: There was a fairly rapid increase in September Arctic sea ice extent 2007–2009, a rapid decrease

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Trump and the end of Obama’s bitter ‘war on coal’

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Cornwall Alliance advisory board member Dr. H. Sterling Burnett, who is also a research fellow on energy and environment at the Heartland Institute, published a great piece at The Hill a couple of days ago. Here are some excerpts: Before he was elected president, Barack Obama promised to bankrupt coal companies, and after eight years of his administration’s

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Why do Ranchers Grouse about Federal Regulations to Protect Sage Grouse?

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One of the basic principles of environmental stewardship is that the people closest to a problem are likely to understand it best. Yes, there might be exceptions when experts from outside can come to understand it better, but what really happens in those instances is that the outsiders get up close. If they don’t, they won’t.

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