Environment

Radical environmentalists put people last, and destroy habitats and wildlife to end fossil fuels.

The grim irony of the pursuit of “green” energy is that it may be placing millions of people in poor countries at risk of living much shorter, unhealthier lives due to air pollution.

How did we let the big government crowd make our environment their ruse de guerre?

The ban includes stirrers and cotton swabs.

Concerns over impacts from energy projects disappear where “green” energy is involved.

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?

The island’s demise was a human and Little Ice Age tragedy, not “ecological suicide”

Will new cars be exclusively the toys of the elite?

When Robert Brace set out to convert pastureland to cropland on his farm in Erie County, little did he know that this simple, age-old farming practice would lead to decades of litigation that has cost him over a million dollars in fines and legal fees.

Martha Boneta dreamed of having a farm in Virginia’s lush countryside. Green busybodies turned her dream into a nightmare. She fought back and won. WATCH NOW

“It’s not going to work,” Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association President Arthur Sawyer told The Boston Globe. “It’s complete foolishness — very far-fetched.”

The great news is that world forests will be growing on net within the next few decades.

After 30 years, residents of King Cove, Alaska finally won approval for the construction of a road connecting their remote Aleutian fishing village to an all-weather airport. Yet the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and their ilk would have the world believe that an 11-mile-long, single-lane gravel road will put birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway in peril.

The movie’s main characters are shrunk to five inches tall, part of an effort to reduce the size of people, reduce their environmental footprint, and save the planet. It’s a fun fantasy, but Downsizing repeats tired fears of overpopulation that have wrongly plagued us for decades.

The children of a Korean War veteran and his wife are hoping to realize the dream of their late parents and build a home in the Florida Keys, thereby undoing a government “taking” of the family’s property.

The Trump administration is moving to bring much-needed clarity to a century-old bird-protection statute

Heartland Institute Senior Fellow (and CFACT advisor) H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., reviews the achievements of President Trump’s energy and environmental policies at the end of his first year in office, a list he says indicates “a tremendous start” — as evidenced by the stock market, job growth, unemployment decline, business investment, and consumer confidence — all helping to “make America great again.”

Cannabis users inhale thousands of times more small particles from smoking than they breathe from outdoor air.

A Connecticut court denied a lawsuit from animal rights activists to grant three zoo elephants the legal rights to “bodily integrity and bodily liberty.”

Greg Walcher, President of the Natural Resources Group, lauds the recent decision by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to end two decades of the scurrilous “sue-and-settle” scam run by EPA for the benefit of environmentalist plaintiffs and the policies some EPA officials wanted but could not get regulatory authority to accomplish.