Wright and Burgum – Trump’s Energy Tiger Team

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Back in January 2025, during the confirmation process for President Trump’s Cabinet nominees, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso condemned the Biden Administration’s “regulatory rampage” that resulted in “painfully high prices for food and fuel.” Barrasso called energy “the master resource” and linked control of energy production the key to controlling the nation’s future. And then he said, “Governor […]

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South Korea’s Net Zero Boast Crumbles

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Just a few months ago, South Korean officials were busy boasting about extreme net zero targets. Fast forward to April 2026, and the country is scrambling to secure every vessel load of oil and natural gas available on the global market.  Last November, the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth formalized its 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution, pledging a sweeping 53–61%

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CFS CEO Pooh-Poohs Claim Fusion Is Not Worth the Money

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Just as Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, was announcing that its mission to build a compact fusion power plant (the SPARC) based on the ARC tokamak design was nearing completion, a team of engineers from ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) were throwing

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What About Earth’s Threatened and Endangered People?

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Another Earth Day has come and gone – number 57, like Heinz steak sauce. Once again, the media, activists and international agencies fed us pablum, exaggeration and alarmism. Our public lands, the Endangered Species Act, biodiversity and environmental justice are under threat, they raged. Oceans are filling with plastic waste. Big polluting corporations are getting away

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Why Undoing the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rule Matters for Americans

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The following is a guest article by Thomas Savidge. The recent rescission of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards Under the Clean Air Act marks one of the largest deregulation efforts in a generation. Among the 571,672 comments the EPA received on this issue last September,

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Open Letter to Federal Judicial Center Chair, Chief Justice John Roberts

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EN: In an unusual intervention aimed at the federal judiciary, three prominent physicists—Richard Lindzen, William Happer, and Steven Koonin—have issued an open letter to John G. Roberts Jr. raising concerns about the latest edition of the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The manual, long regarded as a neutral guide for judges evaluating

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Wastewater Maintenance Fails the Smell Test

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Imagine holding fragile assets worth a trillion dollars and letting them deteriorate to a point where their actual value is vastly diminished. America’s sewers — including nearly 17,500 wastewater treatment plants — are overall not being properly maintained. Over the past decade alone, the renewal and replacement rate for large capital wastewater projects decreased from

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Misguided ‘Repair the World’ Climate Philanthropy  

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The Bronfman family built the Seagram Company into the fabulously successful Canadian real estate, beverage and entertainment conglomerate. After selling Seagram to Vivendi in 2000, it deepened its commitment to Birthright Israel and other Jewish philanthropies.   Like his father, Stephen Bronfman has long been active in Liberal Party of Canada politics. He recently launched the Jewish Climate Trust, published the Jewish Guide to Climate Philanthropy and explained why he believes “climate action is the next great Jewish

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The Urban Heat Island and Urban Cool Island: A Few Examples for U.S. Major Metropolitan Areas

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I’ve been spending recent months applying our novel methodology of quantifying the urban heat island (UHI) effect on surface air temperature, now using Landsat-based Impervious Surface (IS) cover fraction as a proxy for urbanization. This is an adaptation of our published research using population density (PD) as a proxy for urbanization, in which we showed that about

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It’s Important to Find Balance in Protection of Earth and Protection of Human Life

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The following is a guest article by Robert Thornton. Earth Day is being celebrated by some today. The day of recognition began on April 22, 1970 — a date deliberately chosen by U.S. Democrat Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, and young activist Denis Hayes, to fall between Spring Break and Final Exams, maximizing student participation in what

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