EconomyCommentary
PARIS—Proponents of an international global warming treaty are optimistic that this final week in Paris will generate an ambitious, legally binding treaty, with lots of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
PARIS—Leaders from around the world, including President Barack Obama, have been saying that the COP21, also known as the Paris climate conference, is the last… Read More
InternationalCommentary
PARIS—One week into the Paris climate change negotiations, and it’s now doubtful whether President Barack Obama will be able to make good on his promise… Read More
EnergyCommentary
There has been a lot of attention given to China at the climate conference in Paris. As the largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Politicians and bureaucrats from nearly 200 nations are gathered in Paris for an international global warming agreement. In his opening statements, President Barack Obama claimed… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Hey, Paris Climate Conference, 1997 called, and it wants its failed climate discussions back. Eighteen years ago, the Kyoto climate protocol was debated in Congress,… Read More
EnergyNews
PARIS—A U.N.-sponsored climate change summit opened Monday amid gathering clouds of global conflict that threaten to overshadow the negotiations. More than 150 heads of state, including President Barack… Read More
EnergyCommentary
President Obama’s opening remarks at the Paris climate agreement were effectively an apology for industrial progress. At the kickoff of the talks, Obama remarked, “I’ve… Read More
EnergyNews
Senate Republicans, girding for another budget battle in early December, are vowing to use the process to undercut President Barack Obama’s chances of brokering an international… Read More
EnergyNews
Some witnesses questioned the president’s climate initiative, the Clean Power Plan, during a House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing on Wednesday. Anne Smith,… Read More
Energy News
Sen. Mike Lee on Thursday introduced a resolution “expressing the sense of Congress” that President Barack Obama should submit an international climate deal expected to… Read More
Energy News
Senate Republicans emphasized Wednesday that they will fight the Obama administration for the right to review an international climate deal expected to be struck in… Read More
EnergyCommentary
As the Obama administration prepares to leave for the U.N. climate treaty negotiations in Paris on Nov. 30, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Kathleen Hartnett White… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., recently gave an important speech on the Senate floor in which he said, “We as a Congress are not shepherding the… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Everyone reading this should do the attorney general of New York, Eric T. Schneiderman, a big favor: buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution, highlight… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Polls bear it out: When it comes to climate change, the world isn’t much interested in taking action. Most folks, it seems, are reluctant to… Read More
EnergyNews
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wants to pledge American resources to clean up the Chinese, Indian, and Russian environments. Flanked by environmental activists Wednesday on the… Read More
Energy News
Sen. Mike Lee warned the Obama administration on Wednesday that it should reconsider its plan to not submit for congressional approval an international climate change… Read More
EnergyCommentary
It is difficult to see how a U.S. envoy to Paris for the climate deal will convince the United Nations that Americans support President Obama’s… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Delegates from around the world will meet in Paris in December to negotiate an international climate treaty with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide and… Read More
EnergyNews
Taxpayer-funded college professors and researchers who cite climate change to advocate regulations that would raise energy costs for consumers have some explaining to do, congressional… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Remember that part of the Constitution that gives the executive branch of government the authority to make a commitment with foreign powers to cap carbon… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Debate. It’s the hallmark of an open society. We may hold different points of view on a certain topic, but we can express those views… Read More
EnergyNews
Sen. Ted Cruz’s questioning of Sierra Club President Aaron Mair turned contentious Tuesday, then went viral when the Texas Republican posted the nearly 10-minute exchange…. Read More
EnergyNews
When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last week it was toughening the country’s rules for ground-level ozone—what’s commonly known as smog, which comes from sources such… Read More
EnergyCommentary
With the pope visiting America, the Obama administration has been adamant in pushing the message that climate change will hit the poor the hardest. They’re… Read More
EnergyNews
Pope Francis arrived at the White House Wednesday morning to call for immediate action on climate change, praising President Barack Obama’s policy agenda. “Mr. President, I… Read More
EnergyNews
Jerry Brown isn’t used to losing in the California Legislature. And even though defections from a raft of fellow Democrats in Sacramento forced the second-term governor… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Katie Tubb wrote earlier this week on President Obama’s trip to Alaska: President Obama gave a doom and gloom speech yesterday at the Global Leadership… Read More
EnergyCommentary
President Obama gave a doom and gloom speech yesterday at the Global Leadership in the Arctic (GLACIER) conference in Alaska to build momentum for the… Read More
