About Craig Rucker

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others. Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film “Climate Hustle,” which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed "Climate Hustle 2" staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.

Virginia House passes bill to end VCEA!

A bill to liberate Virginia from destructive energy mandates passed the House!

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|2022-02-16T18:05:36-05:00February 16th, 2022|Comments Off on Virginia House passes bill to end VCEA!

CFACT blasts Virginia’s “Clean” Economy Act blunder with facts

Your response helped comments favoring smart energy policy and genuine environmentalism to outweigh those submitted by the anti-energy Left by a hefty margin of seven to one!

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|2022-02-05T21:07:19-05:00February 6th, 2022|Comments Off on CFACT blasts Virginia’s “Clean” Economy Act blunder with facts

Tell lawmakers the Virginia “Clean” Economy Act is a dangerous mistake

Tell the Virginia House of Delegates the truth about which energy sources work and which don't.

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|2022-01-31T11:20:25-05:00January 31st, 2022|Comments Off on Tell lawmakers the Virginia “Clean” Economy Act is a dangerous mistake

Hottest hype ever

2021 didn't fit the warming narrative so team warming got out their bag of tricks.

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|2022-01-25T19:47:06-05:00January 26th, 2022|Comments Off on Hottest hype ever

Google censors climate scientist

Google should immediately remonetize Roy Spencer's website and stop interfering with the publication of scientific data and the free exchange of ideas in the climate debate.

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|2022-01-13T10:27:52-05:00January 13th, 2022|Comments Off on Google censors climate scientist

China and India drive coal to record highs

China and India's stockings are full of coal... and they're loving it!

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|2021-12-23T11:01:54-05:00December 23rd, 2021|Comments Off on China and India drive coal to record highs

Inflation soars as Team Biden locks up America’s energy

Is the Biden Administration deliberately dragging America down?

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|2021-12-22T21:24:07-05:00December 23rd, 2021|Comments Off on Inflation soars as Team Biden locks up America’s energy

Manchin’s NO on “mammoth” “Build Back Better” bill

Senator Joe Manchin drove President Biden's "mammoth" spending bill over a cliff this weekend, sparing the nation a massive increase in new spending and ill-conceived policies it cannot afford.

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|2021-12-20T13:28:40-05:00December 20th, 2021|Comments Off on Manchin’s NO on “mammoth” “Build Back Better” bill

New study finds tropical deforestation recovers quickly, naturally

a recent study found that “soil on previously deforested land can recover its fertility in less than a decade,” and do so largely without any help from mankind.

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|2021-12-18T13:01:43-05:00December 19th, 2021|Comments Off on New study finds tropical deforestation recovers quickly, naturally

Wrong again Biden: Tornadoes are weather, not climate

These tornadoes were tragic, but were natural weather, not climate.

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|2021-12-13T13:03:21-05:00December 13th, 2021|Comments Off on Wrong again Biden: Tornadoes are weather, not climate

Biden’s Comptroller pick would bankrupt energy companies and nationalize banking

The disqualifying problems with Saule Omarova's philosophy stem not from from the Socialist indoctrination she received back in the U.S.S.R., but from her immersion in the unmoored leftism flowing through American academia.

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|2021-11-24T00:40:59-05:00November 23rd, 2021|Comments Off on Biden’s Comptroller pick would bankrupt energy companies and nationalize banking

“Buy Nothing” movement grows in popularity, lowers consumer waste

Some enviro-preneurs have come up with one interesting solution to address a least part of it – a sort of recycling of consumer items via online which doesn’t require any government involvement and best of all, doesn’t involve any exchange of money.

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|2021-11-18T20:23:12-05:00November 19th, 2021|Comments Off on “Buy Nothing” movement grows in popularity, lowers consumer waste

COP 26 president apologizes in tears after UN conference failure

COP 26 has finally come to an end.  There is even a new agreement.  Yet COP 26 President Alok Sharma, MP hung his head and proclaimed through tears, “May I just say to all delegates, I apologize for the way this process has unfolded and I am deeply sorry.”

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|2021-11-14T10:20:23-05:00November 13th, 2021|Comments Off on COP 26 president apologizes in tears after UN conference failure

COP 26: Loch Ness and other monsters

CFACT is in search of "Nessie" as well as exaggerated weather claims, mistaken public policy, wasteful spending, hidden agendas, hypocrites, Socialists, and so-called "solutions" that solve absolutely nothing.

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|2021-11-12T11:16:13-05:00November 12th, 2021|Comments Off on COP 26: Loch Ness and other monsters

COP 26: Socialists in the streets

In the streets of Glasgow the forces of Socialism have dropped all pretense and are waging a full scale assault on our individual rights and freedoms.

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|2021-11-10T13:43:33-05:00November 10th, 2021|Comments Off on COP 26: Socialists in the streets
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