EnergyNews
Why One State Just Banned Plastic Bags … and What That Means for You
California is the first state in the nation to enact a statewide ban on plastic shopping bags, taking a concept that had been limited to cities… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Enviromentalists Should Love, Love, Love Fracking
President Barack Obama raised a lot of eyebrows when he declared in his United Nations climate change speech: “Over the past eight years, the United… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Corporations That ‘Sponsor Climate Lies’ Should Get ‘Death Penalty’
In an op-ed published earlier this week for EcoWatch, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for all organizations that “deliberately, purposefully, maliciously and systematically sponsor climate lies” to… Read More
EnergyCommentary
More Bad News for Some Californians: Mayor Wants to Introduce Yet More Climate Regulations
You stay green, San Diego. But it’s going to cost you. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer has introduced what would be a costly, aggressive climate… Read More
EnergyNews
Google Chairman: Climate Change Skeptics Are ‘Making the World a Much Worse Place’
More than 150 state lawmakers are firing back at Google after the technology company left the American Legislative Exchange Council and its chairman, billionaire Eric Schmidt,… Read More
EnergyNews
These Celebrities Are Really Concerned About the Climate (When They Don’t Need to Fly on Private Jets)
Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world gathered in 156 countries Sunday to raise awareness about climate change in the “People’s Climate March.” In… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Why Climate Change Is Not a Top Priority for Many World Leaders
Seems world leaders are busy — too busy, in fact, to attend the U.N. Climate Change Summit in New York today. Apparently coalition building isn’t… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Memo to Leonardo DiCaprio: Climate Change ‘Reforms’ Would Hurt People
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently designated actor Leonardo DiCaprio as a “U.N. Messenger of Peace” for climate change, touting him as a “credible voice… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Instead of Protesting, Climate Marchers Should Read This
World leaders will gather for the United Nations climate summit this week after tens of thousands of protestors marched through Manhattan on Sunday urging action… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The U.N. Is Releasing Scary Videos of Climate Change’s Effect in 2050. Why You Should Be Skeptical.
We’re not all that surprised when weather predictions for next week—or even tomorrow—don’t pan out. So when the United Nations seeks to drum up support… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama May Be Bypassing Congress on Climate
President Obama reportedly wants to go around our elected officials to implement climate change regulations that will drive up energy costs for Americans. The New… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Ignore the New Obama Administration Report on Climate Change Action
The Obama administration released Tuesday a new report warning that with accelerating climate change comes accelerating costs: Costs will increase by 40 percent each decade… Read More
EnergyNews
‘No Way’ Obama’s Climate Change Plan Will Reduce Temperatures, Says Rep. Mike Kelly
Following a speech about extremism at the Environmental Protection Agency, Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., called the Obama administration’s climate change proposal a “public relations piece.”… Read More
EnergyNews
Panel: Obama’s Emissions Regulations Mark ‘Unprecedented’ Executive Expansion
The Environmental Protection Agency kicks off public hearings today on its new carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions regulations for power plants. But before the… Read More
EnergyNews
Debate: Are Obama’s Climate Change Actions Helping or Hurting?
President Obama promised he wouldn’t wait for Congress to combat climate change, vowing to use executive action wherever possible. One year later, are Obama’s actions… Read More
EnergyNews
How U.S. Taxpayers Subsidize Fossil Fuels in Russia, Saudi Arabia While Being Penalized at Home
Americans have to pay more for electricity and compete for fewer jobs because of President Obama’s regulatory curbs on fossil fuels at home, even as… Read More
EnergyCommentary
What Obama Has Wrong on Climate Change
President Barack Obama again sought to make the case to the American people for “dealing with the rapidly growing threat of climate change” last month,… Read More
EnergyNews
Liberal Mega-Donor Wants to ‘Penalize People’ Who Add to ‘Climate Risk’
Speaking in New York City last week, Wall Street billionaire Tom Steyer outlined his vision for penalizing people whose actions may contribute to climate change…. Read More
EnergyCommentary
A Carbon Tax Is a Terrible Idea. Here’s Why.
Former treasury secretary Henry Paulson is calling for a “fundamentally conservative” carbon tax to address the risks of a climate bubble. Writing in the New… Read More
EnergyNews
Vermont Energy Project Would Reduce Heating Costs and CO2; Activists Oppose It Anyway
An energy project that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and slashes heating costs might sound like an environmental activist’s dream. But one renewable-energy group is standing… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Student Lunches Soon Could Be Influenced By Climate Change Concerns
The Dietary Guidelines may soon be based on global warming as much as human nutrition. Currently, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) is working on… Read More
EnergyCommentary
How Washington Is Sneakily Implementing Cap and Trade
Critics of President Obama’s climate change regulations are often labeled by proponents as science deniers. While climate realists is a more accurate description, President Obama… Read More
EnergyNews
Coal Miners Fear Losing Their Jobs Over Obama’s EPA Clean Power Plan
It’s safe to say Nathan Huff is not a fan of the new Environmental Protection Agency regulations that mandate a 30 percent reduction in carbon… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Climate Change Is a Fact. But These New Emissions Regulations Won’t Help the Environment.
Draft regulations released Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency could cut carbon dioxide from existing power plants by 30 percent. Such a drastic cut will… Read More
EnergyNews
Power Plants, Rate-Payers Brace for Obama Administration’s New EPA Regs
In November 2010, President Obama stood before reporters in the White House briefing room and offered a frank description of his administration’s chances of getting… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama Is Bypassing Congress Again. This Time It’s Going to Cost You.
Next week, the Obama administration is planning to unveil a climate action plan that it intends to implement without legislative approval. It’s a creative approach… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
EPA Gives Grants for Global Warming Poverty
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy announced yesterday nearly $9 million in university research grants to study cleaner cookstoves and fuels that “improve air… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
Obama Channels Jimmy Carter on Climate Change
President Obama sounded a lot like Jimmy Carter when he released his doomsday report on global warming, er, climate change. It was 34 years ago… Read More
Climate Games
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Climate Change Education Partnership, has helped fund a climate-change-related project at Columbia University called FutureCoast. It’s part of… Read More
The War on Cows: From Methane to Meat Taxes
Last month, the President released a climate action plan designed to cut methane emissions. If you are a cow, be afraid. Be very afraid. The… Read More
