Trump’s Rollback of EPA Overreach: What No One is Talking About

President Trump’s actions yesterday (March 28) to rein in the EPA on a number of fronts involves the usual tension between environment and prosperity. Trump has rightly asserted that we can have both a relatively clean environment and prosperity, but this falls on deaf ears in the environmental community. His actions are painted as Republican’s

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Trump’s Energy Independence Order: A Boon To America And The Environment

President Trump’s “Executive Order on Energy Independence” will save the American people hundreds of billions of dollars every year that would have been wasted on purely symbolic efforts under former President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” and other regulations. Former President Barack Obama justified those regulations by claiming they would reduce global warming. But in reality,

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Cornwall Alliance Releases New Video Series on YouTube!

In this 17 episode series, Cornwall Alliance Director of Communications Megan Toombs sits down with Vijay Jayaraj, Cornwall Research Associate for Developing Countries, to learn more about: economic development for the poor in India the history of USAID-sponsored population control the dangers faced by impoverished people—especially woman and children the incredible work missionaries and other

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Exporting Oil Benefits All Americans and Global Poor

For Immediate Release Burke, VA, October 9, 2015—Today the U.S. House of representatives passed legislation to end the ban on crude oil exports by a large bipartisan majority. This policy—a free-market policy—is good for the American people as a whole, but most significantly is good for those Americans, and people across the world, struggling to

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Europe’s Appetite for Wood Pellets Instead of Coal Threatens Forests

In its Quixotic quest to fight global warming, Europe is switching many coal-fired electric generating plants to wood pellets. Not a good idea. One of the most important advances for both humanity and the environment was our move from using wood as primary energy source to coal, natural gas, and oil. That led to a

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We Pray for Those Working in the Jardim Gramacho Landfill, Brazil

 BACKGROUND REPORT  by The Rt. Rev. William Mikler The Jardim Gramacho landfill is the largest garbage dump in South America. No longer active, this enormous trash heap is home to 12,000 people who have neither running water nor sewage. Most all live in shacks made of cardboard or tin, and share the dump with wild

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