By Robert Romano House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at the America First Policy Institute on Sept. 17 unveiled part of the House Republican legislative agenda should former President Donald Trump prevail in the 2024 election versus Vice President Kamala Harris and Congressional Republicans retain the House and win the Senate (for example by picking up seats […]
By Robert Romano “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them… Under my plan… electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” That was former President Barack Obama in a 2008 interview when he was running for president for the first time, outlining […]
By Rick Manning Environmentalists are busily celebrating the destruction of the Klamath River dam system under the auspices that fish will thrive as a result. Here is the problem. 40,000 people depend upon the Klamath River dams for their electric power. Now, 40,000 people added to the […]
By Rick Manning Imagine that a federal agency threatened to fine a local government for excessive pollution without revealing to that or any other state or local government what standard they needed to meet to avoid running afoul of the law? It would be like having a […]
By Rick Manning The Biden administration’s continued war on oil and American energy independence continues unabated, and just as the coal industry has been harmed more by the expectation by investors that new coal electricity generation could be shut down, our nation’s oil refining capacity is stalled […]
By Robert Romano From 2012 to 2022, the U.S. is not producing a single megawatt-hour (MWh) more of traditional, non-renewable thermal-based electricity—coal, natural gas, nuclear, oil and wood—in an entire decade since the Clean Power Plan, now overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia v. […]
By Rick Manning Global warming alarmists are continually looking for evidence to support their doomsday predictions and just last year, Lake Mead, which results from the Hoover Dam in Nevada, was a prime focal point. Why should you care? The water levels of Lake Mead serve as […]
By Robert Romano The U.S. House Rules Committee has made in order an amendment by U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) that would defund the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) carbon endangerment finding enacted in 2009 by the Obama administration that arbitrarily defined carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the terms of the Clean Air Act. That finding was all […]
By Robert Romano After Russia halted a deal to allow Ukraine to export wheat from certain locations on the Black Sea, and has resumed bombing of Odesa, Ukraine’s ability to export grain is once again being degraded—an outcome entirely predictable from the onset of Russia’s invasion of […]
