By Marita Noon What are the Republicans thinking? Coming right out of the gate, at the start of the new GOP-controlled Congress, they began talking about the crazy idea of increasing the gasoline tax. It has little chance of passing, yet can easily taint the […]

By Rick Manning “I am embarrassed by the scientific community’s behavior on the [human driven climate change] subject.” That is just one of the jarring remarks by climate scientist Roy Spencer, PhD.  Spencer in his must read response to those who claim that 2014 was the warmest year on record.  […]

By Robert Romano “[I]t is the sense of Congress that — (1) climate change is real; and (2) human activity contributes to climate change.” That was part of an amendment offered by Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) to S.1, legislation that will require the Obama administration to allow construction of […]

By Marita Noon The unity march, following the brutal attacks in Paris, reminded us all of America’s absence on the global stage. I wondered: “How has the state of our Union gone from being the shining city on the hill, to a country whose light […]

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. Revelations that a Virginia land trust inserted language into the terms of a conservation easement on a farm, without informing the state agency with which it shares oversight responsibility, have riled lawmakers in the General Assembly and garnered the attention […]

By Marita Noon Touted as “America’s first offshore wind project,” Cape Wind became one of America’s most high-profile and most controversial wind-energy projects. Fourteen years in the making, estimated at $2.6 billion for 130 turbines, covering 25 square miles in Nantucket Sound off the coast […]

By Craig Rucker Global warming campaigners have a tough sell on their hands. They claim that climate science is “settled” and beyond discussion, yet the computer models the whole thing depends on have called for warming which has not occurred since before the turn of […]

By Marita Noon For the past six years, the oil and gas industry has served as a savior to the Obama presidency by providing the near-lone bright spot in economic growth. Increased U.S. oil-and-gas production has created millions of well-paying jobs and given us a […]

By Marita Noon We all expect to pay a price for missing deadlines — fail to pay a parking ticket on time, and you may find a warrant out for your arrest. People have lost their jobs when they can’t get the work done on […]

By Marita Noon “Ocean acidification” (OA) is receiving growing attention. While someone who doesn’t follow climate change science might think OA is a stomach condition resulting from eating bad seafood, OA is claimed to be a phenomenon that will destroy ocean life—all due to mankind’s […]