Green policies fanned California’s raging wildfires
California's state’s forests and adjacent grasslands are a tinder box waiting to explode. Yet Gov. Brown has never called for an overhaul of these disastrous policies.
Court rejects activists’ effort to over-criminalize Endangered Species Act
"The lawsuit aimed to criminalize a wide range of ordinary and innocent acts simply because the person who committed them was unlucky enough to be near a threatened or endangered species.”
CFACT official comment: CAFE reform will offer important relief
The Trump administration’s plan to freeze corporate average fuel economy (CAFÉ) standards for five years and to revoke California’s power to set its own gas-mileage rules will bring much-needed reform to the antiquated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards.
Coastal Alabama citizens rise up and defeat local eco-tourism ordinance
Bayou La Baitre’s (the town in Forrest Gump's) victory over the green ordinance was authentic, and the coastal town shows how the little guys and gals can come together and defeat powerful interests.
CFACT public comment on Administration’s Endangered Species Act reform
Officials have unveiled a package of reforms crafted to make the 45-year-old statute better serve both the species it is supposed to recover and landowners caught up in the law’s cumbersome regulations. Read CFACT's official comment.
Video: Russia and America’s Big Green machine
CFACT's Bonner Cohen explains Russian covert support for and influence over the environmental movement at Heartland's America First energy conference in New Orleans. WATCH NOW.
Trump reforms promote endangered species’ recovery
Reforming the 45-year-old Endangered Species Act statute seeks to better serve both the species it is supposed to recover and landowners caught up in the law’s cumbersome regulations.
Obama-Era Executive Order still hindering poor countries’ access to energy
The Obama administration may be gone, but its policies are still doing harm.
This Obama-era UN-EPA agreement has to go
The UNEP-EPA memorandum is little more than an implementation tool of the Paris agreement and should suffer the same fate.
Farmer settles $2 million lawsuit against high-flying Green realtors
Virginia farmer Martha Boneta has reached a settlement in her $2 million lawsuit against a husband-and-wife team of realtors whom she accused of colluding with an environmental group to drive her off her land.
New Heritage Foundation report highlights failures of Endangered Species Act
“Even if a species should never have been listed, while it is listed, landowners or businesses whose actions might unintentionally harm a member are potentially subject to the ESA’s fines and penalties."
Greens sue Trump to block road serving native tribes
Claims by environmentalists that the road would do “irreparable harm” to birds using the Pacific Flyway are belied by the well-documented experience of migratory birds along far more challenging flyways.
Russian efforts to disrupt U.S. energy markets exposed
"As the threat of American energy continues to grow, so does the Kremlin’s incentive to influence energy operations in Europe and the United States."
Foot-dragging state regulators imperil energy infrastructure
When we stand in our own way, we fall behind, to the delight of global rivals eager to take advantage of our self-inflicted wounds.
Center for Biological Diversity targets Alabama auto plant
Will the proposed Mazda-Toyota automobile plant in Limestone County, Alabama spell the end of the spring pygmy sunfish? Will the spring pygmy sunfish spell the end of the auto plant? Can't we have both?