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Supreme Court rebukes EPA in landmark property rights case

By Dr. Jeff EdgensProperty rights in America are sinking to the bottom of a regulatory swamp. The biggest threat to property rights is unchallenged bureaucratic decisions that command property owners to do the bidding of the EPA while not allowing those citizens the opportunity to be heard. One couple caught in this legal quagmire is Mike and Chantell Sackett, of Priest Lake, Idaho, where they bought property in 2008 to build the home of their dreams. They secured all of the necessary permits and began work to fill the land and to prepare the site for the construction of their lake [...]

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|2012-03-23T07:27:02-04:00March 23rd, 2012|Comments Off

Keystone veto means jobs are not in the President’s interest

President Obama “is focused like a laser on putting people back to work,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) assured us last fall – echoing repeated statements by President Obama and Administration officials who “can’t wait” for Congress or others to take action and create jobs. The jobs thing didn’t last long, however. The President soon vetoed TransCanada’s application for permits to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Paul Driessen

|2013-03-25T16:39:56-04:00February 9th, 2012|Comments Off

Dr. Kelvin Kemm on Kenyan TV

Dr. Kelvin Kemm, a South African nuclear physicist and CFACT advisor, explains on Kenyan TV that Africans need to greatly increase the availability of affordable electricity and do not need Europeans telling them "No."

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Kelvin Kemm

|2012-10-25T11:42:17-04:00January 20th, 2012|Comments Off

Deep Green Resistance: Occupy (and more) till civilization falls

By Duggan Flanakin (reviewer)The central theme of Deep Green Resistance, written by Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen (author of Endgame), is simple. To save the planet, its wildlife and some of its people, the enlightened few must rise up in resistance – not to reform, but rather to totally tear down the corporate capitalist economic system, and even civilization itself as we know it. Jensen presents his thesis in the book's preface. "The dominant culture – civilization – is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to [...]

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CFACT Ed

|2012-09-16T22:32:44-04:00December 27th, 2011|Comments Off

Senator Inhofe and CFACT hold press conference in Durban

On Wednesday, 7 December at 15:30 CAT (local time) CFACT cosponsored a press conference with U.S. Senator James Inhofe at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa. View highlights from the press conference, including Senator Inhofe's statement, above. If you wish to watch the full 30-minutes, the UN has made the full press conference available as a webcast here.On Tuesday, CFACT conducted a highly publicized parachute drop which called attention to Climategate 2.0.The Wednesday press conference featured an analysis from Senator Inhofe of the prospects of a new climate treaty in the U.S. Senate. The conference also featured the [...]

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|2011-12-07T00:00:00-05:00December 7th, 2011|Comments Off

Electricity, parks and progress for Chile

Progress improves lives. It brings better, cleaner, more energy efficient technology. It reduces poverty and improves working conditions, health, nutrition, living standards and social equity. It generates revenues to pay employees, churches and taxes, support government programs, and protect the environment.There can be no progress without investors, inventors, innovators and businessmen – or without developing energy, minerals, forest products, agriculture and the economy. People engaged in these enterprises should provide quality products and services, at fair prices, to create jobs and meet people’s needs. They should be honest and ethical in their dealings with customers, employees, neighbors and regulators; transparent in their [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2011-11-15T00:00:00-05:00November 15th, 2011|Comments Off

Idaho wetlands case before the Supreme Court

In one of the most closely watched wetlands cases to come before the U.S. Supreme Court in decades, Mike and Chantell Sackett are facing off against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over whether the couple has been denied due process by the agency. The Sacketts’ efforts to build a home in a residential neighborhood near Bonners Ferry, Idaho have been thwarted by EPA, which demands the couple apply for a federal wetlands-development permit under the Clean Water Act (CWA).The half-acre lot the Sacketts purchased for their home in 2007 is located near, but not adjacent to, picturesque Priest Lake in northern [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2011-10-04T00:00:00-04:00October 4th, 2011|Comments Off

Morano on Alex Jones Show discusses the fall of Al Gore

CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appears on the Alex Jones Show to discuss the fall of Al Gore as Gore's so-called Climate "Reality" Project flops. Morano pointed out that Gore's 24-hour telethon was "so atrocious, so offensive that even committed global warmists are bailing on Gore."

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|2013-02-22T12:52:36-05:00September 16th, 2011|Comments Off

NAACP and EPA would inflict heat prostration and death

By Niger Innis and Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr.From New York, Washington and Atlanta to Chicago, St. Louis and Dallas, America is baking in a furnace. As millions swelter and gasp, they thank their lucky stars for air-conditioned cars, homes, offices and other places of refuge. And for the reliable, affordable electricity that makes AC possible.Previous generations weren’t so fortunate. When a record heat wave slammed the nation in July 1936, Midwest temperatures hit 100-107 for a week. With most homes and businesses lacking even fans in this pre-AC era, millions suffered heat prostration. In Wisconsin, 449 died. Nationwide, thousands perished.Now the [...]

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|2011-08-04T00:00:00-04:00August 4th, 2011|Comments Off

Dog lovers and baby killers

By Cyril BoynesA couple months ago, when its dog-sledding business lost customers, a Canadian company had a hundred of its dogs killed. The incident “shocked” and “angered” people. The employee who shot the dogs said he suffered “post traumatic stress” from killing them and wants compensation.Animal activists used the incident in campaigns against dog sled rides. “I don’t think society is willing to accept that animals should be killed just because they are surplus or don’t suit the purpose they were born for,” said one. “The magnitude of this atrocity is so shocking – our heads are reeling,” another said.Huskies are [...]

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Christina Norman

|2011-04-12T00:00:00-04:00April 12th, 2011|Comments Off

Power for the people

In a scene reminiscent of Colonial Williamsburg, for 16 years Thabo Molubi and his partner had made furniture in South Africa’s outback, known locally as the “veld,” using nothing but hand and foot power. When an electrical line finally reached the area, they installed lights, power saws and drills. Their productivity increased fourfold, and they hired local workers to make, sell and ship far more tables and chairs of much higher quality, thereby also commanding higher prices.

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Paul Driessen

|2013-02-11T16:19:34-05:00April 7th, 2011|Comments Off

Greens lie, Africans die

By Paul Driessen and Robert NovakFina’s little body shook for hours with teeth-chattering chills. The next day her torment worsened, as nausea and vomiting continued even after there was nothing left in her stomach. Finally, her vomiting ebbed and chills turned to fever, drenching her body in sweat. Then more chills, fevers, nausea, convulsions, and constant, unbearable pain in every muscle, bone and joint.She cried out, and tears mixed with sweat. But no one could help her. She had no money for doctors, medicines or a hospital room. She didn’t even have a mother or father to comfort her. All the [...]

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Christina Norman

|2011-01-20T07:15:18-05:00January 20th, 2011|Comments Off

Climate realism for the developing world

By David Rothbard & Craig RuckerThis article originally appeared in The Washington Times opinion section. ------------------------------------ The Cancun, Mexico, climate summit had barely begun when the topic du jour became how much "climate debt" the developed world "owes" developing countries for emitting carbon dioxide. The developed world stands accused of causing "imminent global climate disruption," or whatever the politically correct term is this week. The facts are quite different.The developed world is healthy and prosperous primarily because it created legal, political and economic systems, entrepreneurial opportunities and technologies that enabled it to develop. Poor countries aren't poor because we have emitted [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:51:55-04:00December 7th, 2010|Comments Off

Real crimes against humanity

This month's elections resoundingly affirm that America's top priorities are economic growth, job creation and less Washington control of our lives. The elections are likely the final nail in the cap-and-tax coffin.However, even before close contests could be decided, President Obama announced that he will be "looking for other means" besides cap-and-tax to address the "problem" of carbon emissions and what the White House now calls "global climate disruption." His top priorities include using the "lame duck" session and administrative actions to implement his "climate control" and renewable energy agenda: Environmental Protection Agency regulation of hydrocarbon energy, based on the assertion [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2010-11-16T14:00:58-05:00November 16th, 2010|Comments Off

Dead Aid: Is foreign aid killing Africa?

By Duggan FlanakinDambisa Moyo hails from the tiny southern African nation of Zambia; she transferred to an American university only after a failed coup that shut down her university. After graduation, she worked for the World Bank for 2 years before pursuing a master’s degree at the JFK School of Government at Harvard. Next it was Oxford for her Ph. D. in economics – and then eight years with Goldman Sachs. Bright African women who go to Harvard and Oxford are supposed to honor their mentors as sages – to line their countries up for their fair share of foreign aid [...]

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|2010-10-27T16:26:44-04:00October 27th, 2010|Comments Off