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The developing world wants natural gas and electricity, Hillary Clinton responds with an “epic fail”

While serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton created a nonprofit to fund so-called clean cookstoves that are being marketed as the preferred UN solution for Africans and others without access to electricity (rather than, for example, providing electricity to them)(. Turns out the Clinton Foundation has an interest in this project, and perhaps the deeper goal is acquiring carbon credits for sale to the highest bidder once Hillary becomes President and imposes a carbon tax.

By Marita Noon |2016-03-29T09:00:36-04:00March 28th, 2016|2 Comments

What happened on Oahu didn’t stay on Oahu

The battle against bee killing organisms like Varroa destructor mites, parasitic phorid flies, Nosema fungal parasites, the tobacco ringspot virus is tough enough without anti-science activists scaring people by claiming that ALL bee colony collapses are caused by the use of neonicotinoidal pesticides. Colony collapses date as far back as the 10th century (long before pesticides were envisioned), and yet bee populations in the U.S. and Canada are the highest in over a decade.

By Paul Driessen |2016-03-31T15:12:04-04:00March 26th, 2016|8 Comments

Washington’s despotic lawlessness

Legislators, judges and unelected bureaucrats want to control our lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no accountability even for major errors, calculated deception, or deliberate, often illegal assaults on our liberties and on citizens who resist the advancing Leviathan.

By Paul Driessen |2016-03-23T23:37:01-04:00March 23rd, 2016|11 Comments

Trying to make winners out of losers

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking before coal miners, boasted that she was going to put most of them out of work if they vote for her. She went on to promise to eliminate the use of fossil fuels nationwide -- just days before the press reported terrible news about three major heavily subsidized -- yet near-bankrupt -- solar power generators and in the wake of a University of Chicago report admitting that "the world is likely to be awash in fossil fuels for decades and perhaps even centuries to come."

By Marita Noon |2016-03-24T23:42:22-04:00March 21st, 2016|Comments Off

‘Green’ evangelicals disguise anti-life policies as pro-life, perpetuating suffering and death

By E. Calvin Beisner, Janice Shaw Crouse, and Austin Ruse The evangelical “creation care” movement professes to be pro-life and, for the most part, rightly so. But some creation care advocates give reason to wonder. Case in point: the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) recently launched a “Pro-Life Clean Energy Campaign,” promising to “organize half a million pro-life Christians to participate” in efforts to curb pollution by demanding a switch from fossil fuels to wind and solar. It calls this campaign “pro-life” and says it will “free our children from pollution all across America with 100% clean electricity from renewable resources by [...]

By CFACT |2016-03-17T12:22:22-04:00March 17th, 2016|1 Comment

“Green”—the status symbol the affluent can afford that costs the poor

Researchers have found that some buyers are willing to pay for environmentally friendly products because those products are “status symbols.” A report in The Atlantic states: “Environmentally friendly behaviors typically go unseen; there's no public glory in shortened showers or diligent recycling. But when people can use their behavior to broadcast their own goodness, their incentives shift. The people who buy Priuses and solar panels still probably care about the environment—it’s just that researchers have found that a portion of their motivation might come from a place of self-promotion, much like community service does good and fits on a résumé.” With [...]

By Marita Noon |2016-03-14T15:58:35-04:00March 14th, 2016|3 Comments

Don’t believe ‘hottest-year’ hype

The government spins information, distorts facts, and ignores the scientific record in its assertion that 2015 was the "hottest year ever." But what else is new? They want us to believe their models are more accurate than actual satellite and other real temperature measurements.

By Larry Bell |2016-03-14T15:58:52-04:00March 14th, 2016|Comments Off

Banning fossil fuel benefits

“Natural gas is a good, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously intoned. (Psssst. Ms. Nancy, natural gas is a fossil fuel.) “If I thought there was any evidence that drilling could save people money, I would consider it. But it won’t,” President Obama said in 2008. “We can’t drill our way out of the problem” of high energy prices and disappearing supplies, he still insisted two years later. How shocked he must be now. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing – aka, fracking – has unleashed a gusher of oil and natural gas, sent oil prices [...]

By Paul Driessen |2016-03-14T15:59:12-04:00March 12th, 2016|4 Comments

Enviro gadflies demand right to trespass on your land

A challenge to Wyoming laws that protect private property may open the door for self-appointed environmental snoops to look for “pollution” anywhere they can find it on private land.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2016-03-08T07:38:56-05:00March 8th, 2016|23 Comments

Both parties are fractured, but on energy, each is unified

There is no shortage of news stories touting the splits within each party. The Democrat divide is, as NBC News sees it, between dreamers and doers—with the International Business Times (IBT) calling it: “a civil war over the party’s ideological future.” The Boston Globe declares that the “party fissures” represent “a national party torn between Clinton’s promised steady hand and Sanders’ more progressive goals.” The Republican reality is, according to IBT, a battle between moderates and conservatives. The party is being “shattered” by the fighting between the establishment and the outsiders. The New Yorker said the days following the Detroit debate have “been the week of open civil war within the Republican Party.” Former standard-bearer Mitt [...]

By Marita Noon |2016-03-07T13:57:19-05:00March 7th, 2016|3 Comments

Study: Banning GMOs would devastate Earth, despite enviro claims

The environment would suffer devastating consequences if activists manage to ban genetically modified organisms (GMOs), according to a study published Monday by Purdue University.

By CFACT Ed |2016-03-03T13:29:02-05:00March 3rd, 2016|Comments Off

Obama’s war on oil strengthens our enemies

The latest anti-fossil missile rolled out for launch in President Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget would add a $10 federal “fee” to the price of every barrel of domestic oil at a time when competing and hostile nations are hell-bent to drive struggling American producers out of business. Included are the Saudis, OPEC, Russia, and Iran, along with North Korea as an arms trade beneficiary. The new tax would add about 24 cents per gallon to the price of gasoline which will be bad for consumers, for businesses, and for local, state, and national economies. The revenue would be used to further [...]

By Larry Bell |2016-03-01T20:27:25-05:00March 1st, 2016|Comments Off

Obama’s climate change legacy to be determined by next President

After months of debate and public comments, President Obama’s controversial Clean Power Plan (CPP) was issued in August 2015 and published in the Federal Register on October 23, 2015. But that is hardly the end of the story. Instead the saga is just beginning—with the ending to be written sometime in 2017 and the outcome highly dependent on who resides in the White House. The CPP is the newest set of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that the Atlantic states “anchors the Obama administration’s climate-change policy. It seeks to guide local utilities away from coal-fired electricity generation, and toward renewable energy and natural gas”—with a goal [...]

By Marita Noon |2016-03-01T19:35:18-05:00March 1st, 2016|Comments Off

Mr. President, you owe America an apology

Four years ago, President Obama scoffed at the idea of gasoline prices below $2 a gallon. Today, he both takes credit for it and wants a 20-cents-a-gallon tax to increase the price again -- all for the purpose of subsidizing inefficient, intermittent energy sources that have almost nothing to do with vehicular transportation.

By Marita Noon |2016-02-25T22:10:24-05:00February 24th, 2016|8 Comments

Biden “stimulus” anniversary tour avoids Obama’s hand-picked, bankrupt green energy project

In a week of big news stories, few noticed the 7-year anniversary of Obama’s $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—signed into law on February 17, 2009. Commonly known as the “Stimulus Bill,” Politico calls it “one of the Administration’s most consequential and least popular initiatives.” In fact, according to Politico, “The package of tax cuts and government spending…became so unpopular that the word ‘stimulus’ disappeared from the Administration’s rhetoric.” Despite the bill’s reputation, on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden embarked on a three-city victory tour to celebrate the anniversary of the act for which he oversaw the implementation. His first stop was New Orleans. [...]

By Marita Noon |2016-02-22T21:38:21-05:00February 22nd, 2016|13 Comments