“The ‘Climate Crisis’ vs the REAL Crisis Facing Americans: News Media Journalism Malfeasance”

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The following is a guest article by Russell Cook. From all the news of ‘raging wildfires’ / ‘melting glaciers / ‘increasingly extreme weather’ / ‘hottest month ever recorded,’ it’s no surprise how that morphs into news of ‘climate anxiety’ affecting youths ranging from children to young college students. Supposedly well-intentioned journalists then add articles to their repertoire about ‘coping with the climate crisis.’ On top of […]

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Big, Beautiful Coal

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As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now and then, freight cars piled high with black coal would roll by. That same evening, our lights would flicker out.  There, I’d sit still in the hush of a powerless night, staring into the warm

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Hydrocarbon-friendly Trump a match for energy-hungry India

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With 1.4 billion energy-hungry citizens, India stands at the epicenter of the geopolitics of energy and climate policy. As the world’s third-largest energy consumer and projected to have the fastest growth in demand over the next two decades, the subcontinent’s choices reverberate far beyond its borders. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that India will

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U.S. Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Climate Imperialism

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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has signaled a change that could mean the difference between life and death for millions in Africa. Speaking at the “Powering Africa Summit” in Washington, D.C., Wright told leaders of a continent of 1.5 billion people that the Trump administration “has no desire to tell you what to do with

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Africans Are Regaining Control Over Their Mineral Wealth

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The announcement of the inaugural African Mining Week (AMW 2025), to be celebrated in Cape Town alongside Africa Energy Week (AEW 2025) in early October, is a clear signal that Africans are exercising new muscle toward regaining control of the continent’s vast mineral resources. The event, sponsored by the Africa-focused global investment platform Energy Capital & Power,

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Illinois Electricity: Subsidies, Mandates, Inflation

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“If Illinois wants an affordable and reliable grid, the answer is to end subsidies and mandates for all forms of generation. And to eliminate regulations that are taking the most affordable and reliable fuels out of the generation mix. Nothing else will work.” Electricity prices are climbing in Illinois. As is the public’s concern about

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Some Suggestions on Climate and Environmental Policy for the New Sheriff in Town 

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President-elect Donald Trump’s overwhelming electoral victory and his winning of the popular vote gives him a mandate to move forward with his agenda, not the least of which on the climate and energy deregulatory agenda he promoted during his campaign. In anticipation of Trump’s victory, a coalition of groups—among them the Heartland Institute, E&E Legal

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Climate Journalism, Increasingly Bought and Paid For

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I have written a couple of times previously about the mainstream media’s outside-funded collaboration to promote climate alarm. For example, the Associated Press took millions of dollars from left-wing foundations specifically to cover climate change. Journalistic creed and ethics be damned, media outlets collaborated to suppress voices of dissent, first about climate change, then about

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