According to the World Health Organization, 31 million Europeans have no access to public sanitation, and 48 million do not have piped water at home. At least 300,000 Europeans follow San Francisco’s practice of defecating openly – but in the countryside rather than on public streets. But just as in the United States, water quality has […]
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The Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) condemned the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new rule that would make it almost impossible for coal-fired power plants to continue in operation, stating that implementing the rule would simultaneously drive up costs and drive down reliability of America’s electric grid. Following is the EPSA’s press release from May
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For centuries, the church has influenced our world in a positive way. Christians have been at the forefront of scientific discoveries and are well-known for their charities worldwide. In fact, the very hospital that I access in India was built by faithful Christians from a faraway land and my wife was educated at a school
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The Beatles once sang, “All you need is love.” But will Kamala Harris’ professed LOVE for electric school buses—plus the $1 billion in taxpayer subsidies she announced last October—be enough to usher in the new paradise? Hmm. Let’s do the math. The $1 billion in rebates pledged is to help purchase 2,500 electric school buses in some
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The following is a guest article from Jerry Bowyer. [The article from which this excerpt is taken first appeared in World June 1, 2023.] Yesterday [May 31], ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, and fellow giant Chevron had their annual shareholder meetings. As has been the case for decades, the ballots of these companies are
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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash The Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) supports a recent proposal by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to stiffen PM2.5 requirements—a regulation that would further impede the use of fossil fuels—claiming: “PM2.5 is a deadly killer responsible for up to 200,000 deaths in the United States every year. Recent medical research links
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We all know by now that the California Air Resources Board has banned the sale of traditional combustion trucks – that run on diesel – by 2036 in the state. California now requires fully electric truck fleets. Recently, CARB unanimously adopted its Advanced Clean Fleets regulation phasing in mandates for medium and heavy-duty truck operators
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When Forbes editor Steve Forbes calls a book “one of the most important … in decades defending capitalism,” it’s time to sit up and take notice. Rainer Zitelmann’s In Defense of Capitalism: Debunking the Myths (USA, Republic Book Publishers, March 2023) fully deserves Forbes’s praise. In 10 relatively short chapters constituting the first half of the book, Zitelmann conclusively
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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash To understand why wind and solar power, even with battery backup, will not be sufficient in the near future to supply the electric power needs of any modern industrial economy, much less an economy the size of the United States, one must first understand how the electric power system works.
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There are extensive technical and lengthy discussions and proposed solutions—both pros and cons—about climate change, rising oceans, extreme weather events, the impact of emissions, net-zero, EV mandates, wind and solar mandates, pollution, temperature change, and energy subsidies. The elephant in the room that is seldom discussed is the simple and an easy-to-understand fact of life
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