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By Ron Arnold | CFACT Twenty-nine states, more than half the stars on the American flag, have filed lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for redefining the “Waters of the United States,” or WOTUS, erasing “navigable” and usurping states’ rights by including local seasonal streams, farm irrigation ponds, roadside ditches, and even “connective” […]
Sage Grouse[/caption] By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. | CFACT A ground-dwelling bird, no larger than a chicken and best known for its males’ exotic mating rituals, is at the center of the most comprehensive land-use plan ever imposed by the federal government. Facing a September 30 court-ordered deadline on whether to list the greater sage […]
When Big Green groups and grasping bureaucrats tried to bully her, this local farmer said “enough is enough,” took them on, and scored a major victory for property rights. https://youtu.be/8WzDSs4mmHA Thank you to every one of CFACT’s friends who stood with Martha and all Virginia farmers, signed petitions and generously funded the good fight. Keep […]
Science and Environmental Policy Comprehensive Climate Change Weekly Report, July 12, 2015 Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Science or Selective Ignorance? In an editorial published in Science magazine on July 3, Marcia McNutt, Editor-in-Chief of the Science Journals, removed all doubt concerning the direction that this once prestigious journal is taking. In “The […]
Bogus biofuel trading costs us millions – while the absurd biofuel program costs us billions Paul Driessen Two notorious crooks are helping us wrap up another sordid episode in the saga of the United States biofuel mandates, while further highlighting how bungled and long past its expiration date the program is. Congress concocted the mandates […]
by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek | CFACT The Obama Environmental Protection Agency and environmental activists frequently claim that climate change will disproportionately affect poor and minority communities. In their view, this justifies unprecedented environmental regulations, like EPA’s pending “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from coal and […]
Science and Environmental Policy The Loyal Opposition: One of the most humanely compelling criticisms of the thinking exhibited by the pontifical academies that went into the Pope’s recent encyclical, Laudato Si’ (Praised Be), was “The Pontifical Academies’ Broken Moral Compass,” written by Indur Goklany and published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Goklany’s 2007 book, […]
U.S. Oil Glut An EIA Invention? In the latest weekly production data from the EIA, on the back of recent March revisions, the U.S. managed to post a 76,000 barrel per day increase in the lower 48. Production from Alaska fell by 61,000 barrels per day, putting overall U.S. output 15,000 barrels per day higher for the […]
Things have never been this dry for this long in the recorded history of the state of California, and this has created an unprecedented water crisis. At this point, 1,900 wells have already gone completely dry in California, and some communities are not receiving any more water at all. As you read this article, 100 percent […]
Pope Francis says that global warming is a fact and that a new global political authority is necessary in order to save humanity from utter disaster. The new encyclical that was scheduled to be released on Thursday has been leaked, and it is being reported that this new global political authority that Pope Francis envisions […]
The fallout of the collapse in oil prices has a lot of side effects apart from the decline of rig counts and oil flows. Oil production in North Dakota has exploded over the last five years, from negligible levels before 2010 to well over a million barrels per day, making North Dakota the second largest oil producing […]
For the past decade, natural gas production in the United States has grown by over 40 percent thanks to the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in shale formations. The United States now stands alone as the largest natural gas producer in the world, surpassing Russia in 2011. A decade ago, energy forecasters believed that […]