Yes, Virginia, the polar bears are alive and well. Just ask the Inuit.

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by William D. Balgord The following report should serve as the coup de gras for demolishing the lame arguments behind the EPA endangerment finding. That watershed policy action relied on a false assumption that the polar bear is, or soon would be, threatened with extinction as a result of rapid climate change (viz., thinning ice

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Time to Replace the Antiquities Act?

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Yesterday President Donald Trump announced 2 million acres of reductions in the size of two tracts of land—Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante, set aside by President Obama as national monuments under the 111-year-old Antiquities Act. Predictably, Green lobbyists are up in arms. Ordinary citizens—not so much. Conservatives are celebrating, particularly because Trump’s action

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Badgering Badgers on Climate Change

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The Cap Times in Madison, Wisconsin, recently ran an article titled “Climate change is here: Wisconsin is seeing earlier springs, later falls, less snow and more floods,” to which a Badger state resident called our attention. It’s typical climate alarmist propaganda, and it bemoans what it considers the ignorance, or worse, of those who disagree: There

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Ending ‘Sue-and -Settle’ Extortion

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Last week, federal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a directive aimed at reducing “sue-and-settle” lawsuits. For those who like voters to have input in the creation of environmental regulation, this is a great move. For decades, environmental advocacy groups have exerted outsized influence—and profited financially—from “friendly” lawsuits against the EPA. These lawsuits have

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