In recent months, Climate Change Weekly has extensively covered the twists and turns of the saga of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) efforts to bias the nation’s judiciary in climate lawsuits filed by dozens of cities and counties against fossil fuel producers for “climate damages” (here, here, here, and here, for
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Two advocacy groups have called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to withdraw all support for the Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ), a United Nations initiative to reduce methane and other greenhouse gases from the dairy industry supply chain. Launched during Climate Week in September of 2021, P2DNZ counts as members the largest
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When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he had four years to assess what went right and wrong in his first term before it was sabotaged by COVID-19. To counter the true “China virus” (hegemony over critical minerals), Trump promptly began imposing tariffs with a goal of taking away China’s pricing
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In Pecos County, Texas, crews are clearing scrubland for a power plant that will burn natural gas and answer to no one but Amazon. With 35 turbines and a generating capacity of more than 7 gigawatts, the plant will be able to produce more electricity than the Grand Coulee Dam. A state permit allows the facility
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Half a century ago, raw emotion drove an anti-nuclear energy campaign that still stifles clean energy development in the U.S. Today, that same fear-driven playbook is being deployed in a campaign to shut down data centers. Between 1970 and 1990, America built 95 nuclear power plants that still supply nearly a fifth of the nation’s
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Each month, Pennsylvania’s 6 million electricity customers—all facing rising bills—are charged for services of questionable value without knowing how much they are paying and, for most, that the charge even exists. Enacted by the legislature in 2004, Pennsylvania’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS) requires that 18 percent of an electricity seller’s offering consists of energy
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The following article was adapted from one originally published at AmericaOutLoud.news. It is a guest article by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka. Social media, smartphones, computers, and the many electronic devices that did not exist a century ago are being called “addictive.” A similar question is now being asked about the products made from crude
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President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his administration had returned the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “to how it was intended to be,” invoking the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s reading of the statute and initiating the crocodile tears of anti-development activists. The administration’s view is that regulators committed to regulatory expansion had
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The modern debate over food has produced a strange moral arithmetic. A vocal segment of today’s environmental movement insists that killing a calf or drinking a glass of milk is an act of cruelty, yet it defends the legal right to end a human life in the womb. This is not a minor inconsistency. This
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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg earned her moniker Doom Pixie because of her diminutive height and shrill accusations of human and planetary doom allegedly due to fossil-fuel-fueled climate change. Her most famous tirade was directed at world leaders for allegedly doing too little to stop it. “How dare you?” she fiercely scowled at United Nations Secretary-General
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