On May 1st, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) slammed the door on OPEC. This is not a minor episode in the oil saga; it is a geopolitical earthquake. The Emirates understood that the age of the cartel was over. Spurred by the July 2021 dispute over OPEC+ quotas, Abu Dhabi began a silent revolution, ushering in […]
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The following is a guest article by Aidan Grogan. Judging by the headlines, Ted Turner, who died earlier this month at age 87, will be remembered as an adventurer and visionary: creator of CNN, and with it the 24-hour news cycle, the inventor of the satellite-supported national TV superstation, a distinguished sailor, a loyal conservationist, and a reputed playboy. He adored women
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called the nuclear phaseout a “serious strategic mistake” that left Germany short of firm power that turned the Energiewende into the most expensive energy transition on the planet. This is an early marker for a developing worldwide retreat from policies that sidelined nuclear power and demonized coal, oil, and natural gas. German and Japanese Nuclear Embarrassment Germany stubbornly closed its
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Australia’s “green energy” experiment has turned one of the most energy-rich countries into a high‑cost outlier that guts businesses that once anchored its prosperity. The claim that “renewables are cheaper” is a slogan for the propaganda of politicians and the marketing of green grifters who betray families and employers burdened by the bills. Fall from Economic Stardom Australia once held a competitive advantage that was the envy of the world, with power
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