California’s Suspension of Environmental Regulations Should Be Permanent

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Guest column by Matthew Gagnon If these regulations are an unnecessary hindrance for those recovering from the wildfires, why are they necessary at all? The Palisades Fire at peak intensity January 7, 2025, from high-rise roof in downtown Los Angeles. (Photo courtesy of Toast21 under Creative Commons license.) Southern California has been burning for more than two […]

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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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So Much for an ‘Orderly Transition’ — Biden Bans Oil, Gas Drilling

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So what happened to that goodwill promise President Joe Biden made in the White House Rose Garden on Nov. 7 to do everything he can to support an orderly transition to the upcoming Trump administration? Calling on people to bring down the temperature after the heat of the presidential campaign, he said, “We accept the choice

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Quit Fearmongering, Climate Change is Not a National Security Threat

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The following is a guest article by Linnea Lueken and H. Sterling Burnett A recent post at The Nation titled “Climate Change Is the Real National Security Threat” claims that climate change is the reason hurricanes Helene and Milton were so damaging and that it is the premier national security threat to the United States.

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U.K. Government Pours Big Sums into Latest UN Crackdown on Climate Dissent

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The following is a guest article by Chris Morrison. The British Government is one of the main financial backers of a new international campaign designed to suppress online climate science scepticism ahead of next year’s ‘make-or-break’ COP30 in Brazil. Run by the United Nations and UNESCO, the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change was signed

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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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“Green” Objectives Stifle Economic Growth in the Developing World

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The following is a guest article by Ronald Stein, Dr. Robert Jeffrey, and Olivia Vaughan. About 80% of the globe’s 8 billion people live in less developed countries. Much of Africa and South-East Asia are prime examples of this, as are the Pacific Ocean Island states. The people in those countries might live on less

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Why Are Renewable Equipment Companies Such Poor Investments?

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Headlines promote renewable energy equipment companies as part of efforts to transition to Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Wind and solar system providers, electric vehicle manufacturers, green hydrogen producers, and other green equipment firms form a growing share of world industry. But renewable equipment firms suffer poor market returns, so investors should beware. 

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