By Marita Noon “We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices,” President Obama told an audience four years ago at the University of Miami. Like this year, it was an election year and Obama was running for re-election. Later in his speech , he […]

By Dustin Howard In the State of the Union Address last month, President Obama renewed his call for a carbon tax. He called to “change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers, and […]

By Marita Noon In a week of big news stories, few noticed the seven-year anniversary of Obama’s $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — signed into law on February 17, 2009. Commonly known as the “Stimulus Bill,” Politico calls it “one of the administration’s most […]

By Marita Noon Frustrated that nobody seems to care about climate change, “the country’s biggest individual political donor during the 2014 election cycle,” has pledged even more in 2016. Tom Steyer spent nearly $75 million in the 2014 midterms, reports Politico. He intends to “open his […]

By Marita Noon Going forward, we know what the new year of environmental activism looks like. They have told us. They have made it perfectly clear. They call it: “Keep it in the ground.” The campaign is about all fossil fuels: oil, gas, and coal. Instead […]

By Don Todd On January 17, 2008 Candidate Obama said the following “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted .” What Obama was talking about was a carbon dioxide (a plant food) cap and trade scheme that would have put […]

  By Marita Noon While campaigning in August 2008, President Obama called for 1 million plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (EV) on the road by 2015. According to HybridCars.com, the campaign circulated an “8-page fact sheet” that contained this promise: “Half of all cars purchased by […]

By Robert Romano With oil down to about $33 a barrel and oil producers losing money left and right, the question has shifted to when, not if, oil exporters like Saudi Arabia, Russia and others will begin slowing down production. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Saudi Arabia had proposed a 5 percent cut to global production : “[T]hese parameters were proposed, to cut […]

By Marita Noon Terry Branstad was first elected governor of Iowa in 1982. His six terms in office have made him the longest serving governor in American history and the most influential politician in the state. He rarely takes sides in the Republican caucuses and […]

By Marita Noon By now, most people are aware of President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to bankrupt the coal industry — which he acknowledged would “necessarily” cause electricity to skyrocket. Seven years later, that is a campaign promise he is keeping. Since moving into the White […]