By Rick Manning The Northern Spotted Owl is back in the news, as the U.S. government is moving forward with plans to kill its larger cousin the Barred Owl to help save it from possible extinction. But why should we care about this news that the biggest […]

By Bill Wilson A national carbon tax masked as an “emissions marketplace” is one of the few pieces of anti-free market legislation Barack Obama has failed to pass during his first four-and-a-half years in office. Clearly this defeat has irked Obama, who is now attempting to bypass […]

By Paul Driessen and David R. Legates During this hot, wet summer, a “national climate expert” recently told Delawareans that they can expect even hotter summers — with a climate like Savannah, Georgia’s — by the end of the century. The culprit, naturally: runaway global […]

Originally posted in the Washington Times. By Senator David Vitter At once, the Obama Administration has advanced the most aggressive, far-left environmental agenda ever and developed the most secretive, behind-closed-doors way of doing it.  And that’s not by accident.  Hiding its full plans from the public is essential because of their […]

The EPA continues to be an unaccountable agency that regularly creates job killing regulations.  It is time to defund the EPA’s rulemakings, and protect American businesses from radical environmentalists. Share this alert with your readers by copying this code into the html portion of your blog: […]

By Willie Deutsch On July 9th, Sen. Vitter announced he would vote for Gina McCarthy’s confirmation as the new EPA Administrator as a result of promises of increased transparency .  While we have yet to see if the specific promises made to Vitter will be fulfilled, it is clear that the House of Representatives continues to have their own transparency issues with the EPA. Rep. Lamar Smith sent a letter to Gina McCarthy demanding evidence for the scientific claims made by the EPA which have lead to costly regulations.  This is evidence he has been trying […]

By Robert Romano As the summer heat wave rolls on, electric utilities in localities across the country are asking customers to curb usage to avert brownouts . With a growing population in the 21st Century, increased demand for electricity is a certainty, particularly in the summer months. That means more power plants will be needed […]

By Rick Manning Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan/Chase Manhattan Bank said it, and it just may be worth listening to, “We’ve got a world-trade flush,” he quipped. “We don’t have a divine right to success. But we have an unbelievable hand. If we play it well, […]

An inspiring new America’s Got Talent video is going viral  with over 1.1 million views in three days.  It is the video of an original country music styled song entitled, “Coal Keeps the Lights On” performed by a former marine whose first job was working the coal mines in the town where he grew up. […]

By Larry Bell As the President demonstrated once again during his “climate action plan” address in Georgetown, he is not someone ever to allow facts to stand in the way of ideology and Green lobby cronyism. The familiar take-away line is that even more regulation […]