About Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

Bonner R. Cohen is a senior fellow at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior policy advisor at National Center for Public Policy Research, and as adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, New York Post, Washington Times, National Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald, and dozens of other newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. He has been interviewed on Fox News, CNN, Fox Business Channel, BBC, BBC Worldwide Television, NBC, NPR, N 24 (German language news channel), Voice of Russia, and scores of radio stations in the U.S. Dr. Cohen has testified before the U.S. Senate committees on Energy & Natural Resources and Environment & Public Works as well as the U.S. House committees on Natural Resources and Judiciary. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Bangladesh. Dr. Cohen is the author of two books, The Green Wave: Environmentalism and its Consequences (Washington: Capital Research Center, 2006) and Marshall, Mao und Chiang: Die amerikanischen Vermittlungsbemuehungen im chinesischen Buergerkrieg (Marshall, Mao and Chiang: The American Mediations Effort in the Chinese Civil War) (Munich: Tuduv Verlag, 1984). Dr. Cohen received his B.A. from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. – summa cum laude – from the University of Munich.

Woke companies insult their customers to appease the Green

The capture of corporations by the Left confirms the strategy of the “long march through the institutions.’

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|2021-02-01T12:09:13-05:00February 4th, 2021|Comments Off on Woke companies insult their customers to appease the Green

Cuomo’s offshore wind project ruffles feathers in the Hamptons

Residents of East Hampton’s Wainscott section are circulating a petition that would have their 350-year-old hamlet secede from the town, in a desperate effort to protect their pricey homes and beloved beach from Cuomo’s virtue-signaling wind project.

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|2021-01-26T16:50:55-05:00January 28th, 2021|Comments Off on Cuomo’s offshore wind project ruffles feathers in the Hamptons

Green activists sue to put gray wolf back on endangered species list

The lawsuits, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, were brought by nine green groups represented by the Western Environmental Law Center and another group of environmental organizations represented by Earthjustice.

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|2021-01-18T00:30:08-05:00January 21st, 2021|Comments Off on Green activists sue to put gray wolf back on endangered species list

U.S. solar industry itching to import Chinese panels

With the switch to renewable energy, the U.S. runs the risk of abandoning its hard-fought energy independence.

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|2021-01-02T15:45:49-05:00January 4th, 2021|Comments Off on U.S. solar industry itching to import Chinese panels

Green buildings are a Grinch that will steal more than just Christmas

Last year only 27 of the 19,000 building design firms owned by American Institute of Architecture members met their annual emissions targets.

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|2020-12-27T22:31:10-05:00December 30th, 2020|Comments Off on Green buildings are a Grinch that will steal more than just Christmas

Bezos set to shower Greens with $billions

“We’re in the Money” was a popular tune that caught the spirit of the last century’s Roaring Twenties. Now, one hundred years later, environmental groups can sing the same song -- thanks to Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world.

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|2020-12-21T09:45:16-05:00December 22nd, 2020|Comments Off on Bezos set to shower Greens with $billions

California lawmakers sending fishermen to ruin

Existing federal and state regulations have already reduced the accidental catch of protected species to near zero. But that’s of no interest to virtue-signaling lawmakers in Sacramento who don't care who they put out of business.

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|2020-12-09T11:55:08-05:00December 11th, 2020|Comments Off on California lawmakers sending fishermen to ruin

Solar desert deep-sixed in rural Virginia

For the second time in 15 months, residents of rural Culpeper County, Virginia have risen up against a proposed massive solar array project.

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|2020-11-26T13:26:40-05:00November 30th, 2020|Comments Off on Solar desert deep-sixed in rural Virginia

Recovery success: Gray wolves removed from endangered list

The gray wolf population in the lower 48 states is estimated at more than 6,000, far exceeding the recovery goals of the two geographically separated and genetically diverse populations of wolves.

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|2020-11-07T19:43:01-05:00November 10th, 2020|Comments Off on Recovery success: Gray wolves removed from endangered list

Idaho mine could bring back salmon and jobs

Who could possibly object to a project that will boost local employment, clean up waste left over from a bygone era of mining, and reduce America’s dangerous dependence on China for critical minerals?

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|2020-10-19T14:14:15-04:00October 22nd, 2020|Comments Off on Idaho mine could bring back salmon and jobs

California’s energy nightmare is coming to Virginia

For a harbinger of their energy future, Virginians need look no further than California. It’s not a pretty picture.

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|2020-10-19T09:21:41-04:00October 18th, 2020|Comments Off on California’s energy nightmare is coming to Virginia

CFACT official comment: EPA should retain current ozone standards

The Clean Air Act has successfully ensured clean air for America. EPA would be wise not to impose further burdens at a time when the country can least afford them.

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|2020-10-06T22:17:50-04:00October 5th, 2020|Comments Off on CFACT official comment: EPA should retain current ozone standards

Wildfires and the spotted owl hoax

The listing of the owl under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) devastated timber-dependent communities and, as it turns out, inflicted enormous ecological harm on the region’s forests.

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|2020-10-04T07:02:35-04:00October 2nd, 2020|Comments Off on Wildfires and the spotted owl hoax

WW ll fighter pilot’s widow determined to keep her husband’s plane

He constructed a plane on his property as a labor of love. Now busybodies want it hauled away as garbage.

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|2020-09-17T08:12:52-04:00September 16th, 2020|Comments Off on WW ll fighter pilot’s widow determined to keep her husband’s plane

Energy independence boosted as ANWR cleared for clean, safe drilling

How much oil is there in ANWR? Estimates run between 4.3 billion and 11.8 billion barrels,

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|2020-08-22T08:10:11-04:00August 20th, 2020|Comments Off on Energy independence boosted as ANWR cleared for clean, safe drilling
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