Category: Science and Public Policy

Wind power requires taxpayer-provided subsidies and loan guarantees and special regulatory favors to exist – if that sounds like Solyndra, you’re right.  The recent auction of 113,000 acres just off…

Principal Sponsor:  U.S. Rep. Robert Whitman, First Congressional District, Virginia Status as of 9/1:  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to…

Editor’s Note:  Al Gore and other climate hustlers have taken to comparing those who dispute their facts and challenge their views to vile holocaust deniers, calling them climate deniers. Others…

Government should speed oil infrastructure improvements, a key piece in America’s manufacturing resurgence. A bright spot in the U.S.’s sluggish economic recovery has been historic growth in North American energy…

The Hon. Rob Wittman 2454 Rayburn HOB United States House of Representatives Washington. D.C. 20515 Dear Representative Wittman: On behalf of the members and supporters of Frontiers of Freedom, let me…

by Wesley Pruden Al Gore and his traveling medicine show is back in town with his new, improved snake oil, guaranteed to grow hair, improve digestion, promote regularity and kill…

And what would that mean for the threat of catastrophic climate change? Why has the warming trend slowed? Climatologists aren’t sure. What they do know is that the average air…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently released its “State of the Climate in 2012” report, which states that “worldwide, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record.” But…

Charles Krauthammer on Interior Secretary Sally Jewell saying “I hope there are no climate change deniers in the Department of Interior.” Charles Krauthammer: [I]t is shockingly arrogant and anti-scientific. The…

by Chris Isidore Gas prices are significantly higher and likely to go higher still, which could make this the most expensive summer at the pump in five years. The average…

CBS News – A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers…

by Jason Stverak President Obama’s call for the EPA to impose new regulations on coal-fired power plants was a giveaway to the environmental lobby at the expense of the American…

Explosions, poisons, pollution, cancer, and global warming all considered. by Ronald Bailey Gasland Part II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox’s earlier anti-fracking docudrama Gasland, will run on HBO. It…

by Alex B. Berezow It’s particularly trendy among politicians and members of the media to be worried about climate change. When President Obama recently spoke before a crowd in Berlin,…

by Clark S. Judge This past week, President Obama joined the Flat Earth Society. That’s not how he put it, of course. Just the opposite. He said, “We don’t have…