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Electricity, parks and progress for Chile

Progress improves lives. It brings better, cleaner, more energy efficient technology. It reduces poverty and improves working conditions, health, nutrition, living standards and social equity. It generates revenues to pay employees, churches and taxes, support government programs, and protect the environment.There can be no progress without investors, inventors, innovators and businessmen – or without developing energy, minerals, forest products, agriculture and the economy. People engaged in these enterprises should provide quality products and services, at fair prices, to create jobs and meet people’s needs. They should be honest and ethical in their dealings with customers, employees, neighbors and regulators; transparent in their [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2011-11-15T00:00:00-05:00November 15th, 2011|Comments Off

Speaking sense to power at the UN climate conference in Durban is reminiscent of Galileo

From my vantage point here in South Africa, I am aware of the momentum of the major build-up to the next big United Nations world environment conference, COP 17, which will be held in December, in Durban, the city where I went to school and university. I am honored to be part of CFACT's delegation to the Durban conference. We've certainly got our work cut out for us. We hear of ‘the road to Durban’ on international news broadcasts and, daily, people of all ranks are making comments on the issues to be addressed at COP 17. The conference organizers have [...]

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Kelvin Kemm

|2011-11-10T00:00:00-05:00November 10th, 2011|Comments Off

Land war breaks out in Maryland

Maryland has become the latest flashpoint in the nationwide conflict between urban elites and rural communities. Determined to impose “Plan Maryland,” a sweeping land-use mandate that would hamstring rural development, Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is facing a growing tax revolt and threats by local businesses to abandon the state.“From Annapolis, he’s dictating how communities across the state should develop, and it’s wrong. It’s arrogant,” Thomas Browning, a farmer from Frederick County, told the Washington Post (Oct. 31). “He’s at war with rural Maryland,” added State Senator and Minority Whip E. J. Pipkin. Plan Maryland is the O’Malley administration’s own version of [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2011-11-04T00:00:00-04:00November 4th, 2011|Comments Off

What the frack is going on here?

Hydraulic fracturing sends “huge volumes of toxic fluids” deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims. “Billions of gallons of toxic fluids” will “contaminate” groundwater and drinking water “for generations.” We need to “Ban Fracking Now.”Environmentalists used to support “clean natural gas.” Whence the intolerant new attitude? Oil companies have been using hydraulic fracturing for 60 years to get the most petroleum possible from grudging rock formations deep beneath the Earth. A few years ago, Mitchell Energy and others combined HF with horizontal drilling to tap into hydrocarbon-rich shale deposits that [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-10-25T12:15:32-04:00October 20th, 2011|2 Comments

Idaho wetlands case before the Supreme Court

In one of the most closely watched wetlands cases to come before the U.S. Supreme Court in decades, Mike and Chantell Sackett are facing off against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over whether the couple has been denied due process by the agency. The Sacketts’ efforts to build a home in a residential neighborhood near Bonners Ferry, Idaho have been thwarted by EPA, which demands the couple apply for a federal wetlands-development permit under the Clean Water Act (CWA).The half-acre lot the Sacketts purchased for their home in 2007 is located near, but not adjacent to, picturesque Priest Lake in northern [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2011-10-04T00:00:00-04:00October 4th, 2011|Comments Off

Duffy talks green jobs and subsidies on Fox Business

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|2012-09-18T22:33:42-04:00October 3rd, 2011|Comments Off

Morano on Alex Jones Show discusses the fall of Al Gore

CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appears on the Alex Jones Show to discuss the fall of Al Gore as Gore's so-called Climate "Reality" Project flops. Morano pointed out that Gore's 24-hour telethon was "so atrocious, so offensive that even committed global warmists are bailing on Gore."

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CFACT

|2013-02-22T12:52:36-05:00September 16th, 2011|Comments Off

Play Methane Madness

Play Methane Madness and put a cork in Al Gore's climate propaganda day "Put a cork in it, Al!" That's the message students are sending Al Gore, radical climate campaigners and assorted other bohemians, grant-seekers and profiteers cashing in on the global warming craze. Al Gore is calling on folks to make September 14th a day of climate action through a series of propaganda videos he will be broadcasting worldwide. CFACT calls for a day of genuine “climate realism” instead. CFACT Collegians are spreading the word with a bit of online levity. CFACT's Methane Madness game trains online players to [...]

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Adam Houser

|2011-09-14T00:00:00-04:00September 14th, 2011|Comments Off

Flashback: CFACT drops the banner on Greenpeace ships

Watch the first video HERE Watch the second video HERE (Copenhagen, Denmark, December 16, 2009) Global warming skeptics from CFACT yesterday pulled off an international climate caper using GPS triangulation from Greenpeace's own on-board camera photos to locate and sail up long-side of the infamous Greenpeace vessel, Rainbow Warrior. Then in Greenpeace-like fashion, the CFACT activists unfurled a banner reading "Propaganda Warrior" which underscored how the radical green group’s policies and agenda are based on myths, lies, and exaggerations. Earlier in the day the activists daringly boarded Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise with neither stealth nor force, but by baffling the crew with doughnuts, and [...]

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|2011-09-13T16:16:47-04:00September 13th, 2011|Comments Off

Morano debates green jobs on Fox

CFACT's Marc Morano appeared today on Fox News' "America Live" with Megyn Kelly to debate the benefits of green jobs with Michael Dorsey, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College.

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CFACT

|2012-11-13T16:36:29-05:00September 7th, 2011|Comments Off

Feeling the heat: Obama drops EPA ozone regulations

In a move that stunned friend and foe alike, President Obama on September 2 instructed his own political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw (for the time being) new regulations governing ground-level ozone, or smog. The move came amidst growing concerns over the state of the economy and whether tightening the screws on businesses and communities at this time wouldn’t lead to even more unemployment.The Clean Air Act requires EPA to review what are called National Ambient Air Quality Standards every five years. In January 2008, the Bush administration tightened the national standard for ozone to 75 parts [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2011-09-07T00:00:00-04:00September 7th, 2011|Comments Off

Spreading ‘Big Oil subsidy’ disinformation

Every American manufacturing company gets tax deductions that help it create jobs and strengthen our economy – whether it produces newspapers, furniture, cars or fuel. Eliminating those deductions would increase unemployment and further slow our nation’s desperately needed economic recovery.Yet that is precisely what President Obama wants to do when oil companies want to use the deductions. It is one of many ways the Obama administration is undermining the oil industry and 9.2 million Americans whose jobs it supports. It is part of the administration’s strategy for replacing fossil fuels with heavily subsidized “alternatives” that taxpayers cannot afford, and consumers will [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2011-09-05T00:00:00-04:00September 5th, 2011|Comments Off

CFACT victory: Obama scraps EPA ozone regulations

VICTORY! Obama orders EPA to halt its job-killing smog rule Thank you, petition signers! CFACT supporters know that EPA has been on an ideological tear, proposing job-killing rule after rule without regard to economic or environmental realities. EPA has gone lawless, all too often exceeding the authority granted to it by Congress. CFACT has led the way and joined with elected officials and citizens from coast to coast to cry out, "STOP! Enough! This is not what we hired you to do!" We asked you to sign and circulate CFACT's petition to reform EPA and so many did. We provided [...]

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|2011-09-02T13:32:17-04:00September 2nd, 2011|Comments Off

NIPCC Report 2011 Update

S. Fred Singer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virg inia and chairman of the Science & Env iron mental Policy Pro ject (SEPP). His specialty is atmospheric and space physics. An expert in remote sensing and satellites, he served as the founding director of the US Weather Satellite Serv ice and, more recently, as vice chair of the US National Advisory Co mmittee on Oceans & Atmosphere. In 2007, he founded the NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change), providing an alternative scientific voice to the UN’s IPCC (intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). He edited the first NIPCC report [...]

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CFACT

|2012-10-22T20:36:05-04:00August 29th, 2011|Comments Off

Climate prostitutes, charlatans and comedians

Put these guys on Comedy Central. Put ‘em in an asylum … a mandatory restitution program … jail perhaps … or a witness protection program, if they turn state’s evidence on other perpetrators. But keep them away from our money – and our energy, economic, healthcare and education policies.Climate prostitutes, parasites and charlatans have been devouring billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars, year after year, plus billions more in corporate shareholder cash, activist foundation funds and state government grants. The laws, mandates, subsidies and regulations they advance have cost taxpayers and consumers still more billions for “alternative” energy and other schemes that [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2011-08-26T00:00:00-04:00August 26th, 2011|Comments Off