by Audrey Streb The Daily Caller As Big Tech develops more artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, advocates flaunt the promise of more jobs and innovation, while others warn about the impending power crunch and potential antitrust issues as a handful of companies could dominate the power sector. Former Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Antitrust [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California’s gas is $1.58 higher per gallon than every other state As of 2025, California’s total gas taxes and fees amount to approximately $1.15 per gallon, which includes state excise taxes, local sales taxes, and various fees. [...]
Heartland Institute On October 21, 2025, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com founder, joined H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and Anthony Watts, for one of Heartland Institute’s regular podcasts. As the show notes say: The United Nations narrowly avoided approve a new tax on carbon-dioxide emissions from shipping today. Their [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Daily Caller Cynical, disaster-seeking climate change hysterics have been pushing, for decades now, a narrative that global warming, especially warming ocean temperatures, increase the risk of hurricane activity. Every year, they seem to be eagerly awaiting devastating superstorms to prove [...]
by Melissa O'Rourke The Daily Caller A United Nations (UN) proposal for a global carbon tax, which threatened to raise consumer costs, was tabled on Friday following pressure from the Trump administration. Members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a UN body based in London, met this week to vote on a “Net-Zero Framework,” which [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Near the end of the Reagan-Bush era, in 1991, the Gallup poll showed more than three-fourths of all Americans — 78% — identified themselves as environmentalists. Nearly 40% called themselves “strong environmentalists.” But 30 years later, Gallup says those numbers had fallen to just [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe This is why California ranks dead last once again in Chief Executive Magazine’s Best & Worst States For Business Another California business bites the dust. Actually, GAF Energy, which sells solar panels embedded in roof shingles, is [...]
by David Sherfinski Thomson Reuters Foundation RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – Having dismissed climate change as a con job, U.S. President Donald Trump now faces a key question — COP or no COP? Representatives of nearly every government in the world are expected at the global COP30 summit, scheduled next month in Brazil's Amazonian city of Belem, [...]
by Audrey Streb The Daily Caller Republican Utah Sen. John Curtis is reportedly planning to co-lead a delegation to the annual U.N. climate change conference, which some critics told the Daily Caller News Foundation clashes with President Donald Trump’s energy agenda. Curtis told E&E News Friday that he and Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons will [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Daily Caller The arrest this week of a suspect for starting the fire that led to last January’s deadly Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles came as no real surprise. Arson was hinted at as early as February. People had previously [...]
