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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel When Congress authorized nearly $400 billion in climate subsidies, the bill was called the “Inflation Reduction Act,” though it had nothing to do with inflation. The 2001 “Patriot Act” was about expanding government surveillance powers, not patriotism. The massive new federal health insurance program [...]
by Audrey Streb The Daily Caller A fire broke out at a California refinery on Thursday as the state faces a looming gas crisis, energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Chevron El Segundo oil refinery just outside of Los Angeles erupted into flames Thursday night and is still burning, with the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Washington Evening Star humorist Philander Chase Johnson created a great character named Senator Sorghum. A 1902 piece called “A Delicate Distinction” had one character saying, “That friend of yours seems to have a clear conscience.” Senator Sorghum answered, “No, not a clear conscience; merely [...]
On Wednesday, October, 1, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com joined Washington Times Editor Kelly Sadler to "to discuss how the left’s obsession with climate change is rooted in politics and what the Trump Administration is doing to change some of these economically disastrous policies." Watch here.
