Climate Alliance’s anti-affordability platform raises big election issues

Eighteen of the 23 Climate Alliance Governorships are up for grabs in November so the Alliance’s anti-affordability platform is especially important. There are also thousands of State Legislator races. Nor does it end with this election. Energy affordability is a central issue nationwide and the Democrats say they are all for it, but the Alliance

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After 46 years of failed attempts, America finally has the opportunity to fix permitting

America has a building crisis Americans hear a lot about the fuel crisis, the electricity crisis, the housing crisis, and the munitions crisis. But we don’t hear about the deeper, underlying crisis: the building crisis. Despite the fact that technology has made it easier than ever to build great things quickly and cheaply, America has

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The Ark-La-Tex May Be Leading America’s Lithium Race

The discovery of vast lithium resources in the Smackover Formation, most notably in southern Arkansas and into far northern Louisiana and across northeast Texas, has sparked widespread interest among corporations and community leaders in all three states. Last year, the Venture Center, Standard Lithium, and the University of Arkansas launched the Arkansas Lithium Technology Accelerator

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What Slaughtered Pigs Can Teach Us About Europe’s Wine Policy

The following is a guest article by Jonathan Miltimore. In the spring of 1933, American farmers pleaded for help from their newly elected president, Franklin Roosevelt. Hog prices were at record lows, and the farmers wanted the government to do something. Not one to let a crisis go to waste, FDR took action. Agriculture Secretary

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The Biggest Garbage Heaps in Human History

Yes, even modern coal plants emit pollutants, along with plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases.” Gas plants emit CO2 and water vapor. And yes, wind turbines, solar panels, and vehicle and grid backup batteries have no such emissions – at their point of operation. But they generate massive pollutants in their manufacturing and other stages.

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Elena Kagan Gave Bogus Science a Blind Endorsement 

The following is a guest article by Angela Wheeler. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s admission at a July Senate hearing raises troubling questions about accountability in judicial education. Kagan confirmed she had written the foreword for the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence without reading a chapter on climate change that was eventually removed because of objectionable biases – and has yet to read it.  Her foreword vouches for the manual

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EU’s Pretense of ‘Transition’ Leadership Is an Economic Loser

An Energy Institute report reveals a Europe clinging to the pretense of leading an “energy transition” as the continent declines under the weight of climate policies whose quixotically utopian objectives are negated elsewhere by fossil fuel-supported economic growth.  Data from the 75th edition of the annual “Statistical Review of World Energy” will surprise only those ignoring the facts: The world continues to depend massively on fossil fuels. Solar and wind technologies, while

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Mining the Oceans for Fresh Water – and Uranium

About 450,000 residents in the Corpus Christi (Texas) metropolitan area are primarily served by fresh water from two severely threatened reservoirs, but the city has become increasingly reliant on water sent via the Mary Rhodes Pipeline from Lake Texana and the Colorado River. The city remains under stage 3 water restrictions despite recent heavy rains.

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Christians’ Ever-Increasing Battle Against the Pseudo-Scientific Climate Religion

Suffering demands a response. When we see devastation, whether from a flood in North Carolina or a drought in Africa, the heart breaks. Our Father in Heaven does not delight in evil, and as His children, we are commanded to extend compassion — not just through sentiment, but through action. But the biblical concept of

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