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Win for CFACT as Trump halts all significant offshore wind projects

Santa brought CFACT's present early when he chucked a massive lump of coal smack-dab into Dominion Energy's stocking.

By Craig Rucker |2025-12-22T21:55:21-05:00December 22nd, 2025|Comments Off

Wind turbine eagle-kill secrecy may soon end

A new lawsuit could finally end the secrecy surrounding wind turbines killing eagles.

By David Wojick |2025-12-19T10:17:36-05:00December 18th, 2025|Comments Off

Scientists “surprised” that 200 year old corals are adapting to climate change just fine

In the last 4 million years, corals have only survived 90 or more ice-age cycles.

By Joanne Nova |2025-11-08T23:44:09-05:00November 9th, 2025|Comments Off

Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning

Land-based wind turbines kill golden eagles, so every turbine requires an Eagle Protection Act permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to kill them.

By David Wojick |2025-09-28T21:12:47-04:00September 29th, 2025|Comments Off

Health Sec. RFK Jr.: Wind farms ‘wiping out the whale population’ and hurting fisheries

"During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about offshore wind farms."

By CFACT Ed |2025-08-28T15:45:08-04:00August 28th, 2025|Comments Off

NOAA petitioned to stop offshore wind killing whales

"Research indicates pile-driving noise is approximately 3.2 times more harmful to whales than sonar surveys, dramatically increasing risks of permanent auditory injuries and fatalities."

By David Wojick |2025-08-04T22:30:29-04:00August 5th, 2025|Comments Off

FWS is violating its own eagle-kill regulations

Every on-land wind project requires a permit to kill eagles from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

By David Wojick |2025-07-27T22:25:37-04:00July 28th, 2025|Comments Off

CFACT Report: Feds fail to “offset” wind turbine eagle kills

America's bald and golden eagles are at risk as Fish and Wildlife Service underestimates required turbine kill "offsets" by a factor as high as 241.

By Craig Rucker |2025-07-02T22:59:11-04:00June 29th, 2025|Comments Off

CFACT tells the Feds to reform the Endangered Species Act

For far too long, Green campaigners have shamelessly used the ESA to deprive property owners of the freedom to responsibly use their land.

By Craig Rucker |2025-05-24T23:38:09-04:00May 25th, 2025|Comments Off

Reform the Endangered Species Act!

The Endangered Species Act today serves the anti-capitalist gadflies of the Left far better than it protects wildlife. Read CFACT's official submission.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2025-05-21T10:59:31-04:00May 21st, 2025|Comments Off

Eliminate the harm misdefining “harm” does via the ESA

The agencies’ interpretation and application has nearly deformed the term "harm" into an arbitrarily wielded national land use veto.

By CFACT |2025-05-21T10:58:43-04:00May 21st, 2025|Comments Off

Seventeen states misguidedly sue to block Trump from stopping wind power

The States have not properly considered where this action might lead. In fact they have probably asked the Court for the wrong thing.

By David Wojick |2025-05-12T23:03:56-04:00May 13th, 2025|Comments Off

Wind power’s eagle-kill permits are a deadly failure, so permitting must stop

About 15 years ago the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the golden eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality.

By David Wojick |2025-05-05T22:39:32-04:00May 5th, 2025|Comments Off

Secretary Burgum: If offshore wind is wrong for New York, it is also wrong for Virginia!

The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which is being built by Dominion Energy off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the largest boondoggle project of all, and it is subject to all of the same concerns about offshore wind.

By Craig Rucker |2025-04-22T12:13:33-04:00April 22nd, 2025|Comments Off

Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences

The offset is called "compensatory mitigation" which means the wind power facility pays the FWS or their agents to have their eagle killing offset by helping others live someplace else.

By David Wojick |2025-04-22T11:18:45-04:00April 21st, 2025|Comments Off