A friend and former colleague of mine, the late Jay Lehr, Ph.D., longtime science director at The Heartland Institute, used to say with regard to environmental lawsuits, “If the law is on your side, pound the law; if the facts are on your side, pound the facts; if neither are on your side, pound the […]
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World Leaders are in turmoil. For 30 years, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the International Energy Agency, and business and political leaders called for a shift from hydrocarbon fuels to renewable energy. Thousands of laws were enacted to try to force a net zero energy transition. But it’s now clear that green energy is unable to meet the needs of growing developing nations or support the artificial intelligence revolution in
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On January 7, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations deemed “redundant, poorly managed, unnecessary, costly, ineffective,” or instruments of America’s adversaries. Among them are various United Nations agencies and, most significantly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the backbone of global climate governance. During his first term, President Trump removed the U.S. from the Paris
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As global corporations and governments increasingly shed ideologically driven policies that raise energy prices and undermine supply, governors in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic cling to counterproductive agendas of contradiction and equivocation. Programs that prioritize dubious environmental goals over economic growth and basic human needs have been losing support. In the U.S., the Trump administration promotes
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The following is a guest article by Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan, and Steve Curtis. Political leaders are increasingly prioritizing affordability (without the need for subsidies) as a cornerstone of electricity policy. They are now recognizing that high costs burden households, stifle economic growth, and fuel public discontent in wealthier nations that are providing taxpayer subsidies
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When President Trump last May signed an executive order calling for deployment of 300 gigawatts (GW) of net new nuclear capacity by 2050, it had to come as a shock to those who just a few years earlier were plotting a very different energy future – one built on wind turbines and solar arrays, the
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What if the worst environmental problem wasn’t the one everyone is talking about? While Western elites sip fair-trade coffee and obsess over carbon footprints, the developing world drowns in a toxic soup of its own making – a crisis entirely distinct from the phantom menace of climate change. The real environmental emergency isn’t the modest warming
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In the media world of mis-, dis-, and omitted information, the category of science stands front and center. One reason is the inordinate influence ideology has on the dissemination of science. Too often, partisan influences, whether intentional or not, affect science reporting by using selected facts and figures to support predetermined conclusions while excluding critical
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Today, the Cornwall Alliance joined with a broad coalition of conservative organizations in sending an open letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin commending his leadership and urging continued reform at the Environmental Protection Agency. Administrator Zeldin’s actions—especially the reconsideration of the flawed 2009 endangerment finding and his push to restore sound science, proper risk assessment,
Most elected officials, as well as those aspiring to be elected, have little comprehension of the differences between the products and transportation fuels that run the economy and the electricity needed by infrastructure. Thus, all candidates running for public office throughout the country (both parties)—for Mayor, Governor, President, etc.—should be given the opportunity to share
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