Badgering Badgers on Climate Change

The Cap Times in Madison, Wisconsin, recently ran an article titled “Climate change is here: Wisconsin is seeing earlier springs, later falls, less snow and more floods,” to which a Badger state resident called our attention. It’s typical climate alarmist propaganda, and it bemoans what it considers the ignorance, or worse, of those who disagree: There

Badgering Badgers on Climate Change Learn More »

Bonn: Funeral for the Paris Agreement

Media are abuzz with the climate conference at Bonn. The conference seeks to strengthen the commitments made by signatories of the Paris Agreement. The UNFCCC, the wing of the United Nations responsible for ‘tackling’ climate change, has been advocating for immediate actions to mitigate what it calls Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW). The storyline at

Bonn: Funeral for the Paris Agreement Learn More »

Ending ‘Sue-and -Settle’ Extortion

Last week, federal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a directive aimed at reducing “sue-and-settle” lawsuits. For those who like voters to have input in the creation of environmental regulation, this is a great move. For decades, environmental advocacy groups have exerted outsized influence—and profited financially—from “friendly” lawsuits against the EPA. These lawsuits have

Ending ‘Sue-and -Settle’ Extortion Learn More »

Time to End Ethanol Mandate and Subsidies

Seven years ago Indur Goklany, an economist formerly with the U.S. Department of the Interior and associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since its inception in 1988 as an author, expert reviewer, and U.S. delegate to the organization, concluded a thorough analysis of the effect of American biofuels policy on the world’s poor with these words:

Time to End Ethanol Mandate and Subsidies Learn More »

You’ve Been Fooled! Elixir of Life Is No Scary Toxin!

Since coming to live in Delhi and attending various government functions related to environment and climate, I’ve been struck by the government’s repeated emphasis that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. For a well-informed mind, this shouldn’t be a surprise. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that enables all life forms to flourish on earth.

You’ve Been Fooled! Elixir of Life Is No Scary Toxin! Learn More »

Two Cheers for Trump Infrastructure Permitting Order

One of the biggest barriers to investment in infrastructure all across the United States is the long, costly, and unpredictable permitting process. If you have any doubts, just consider the Keystone XL pipeline extension. Proposed by TransCanada in 2008, approved by the Canadian government and the state of South Dakota in 2010, it floundered around

Two Cheers for Trump Infrastructure Permitting Order Learn More »