Tag: environment

BY TOM DEWEESE For the past year I have been working to sound the alarm that the American beef industry is under massive assault from...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON According to a new United Nations report, “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” This disturbing prediction (by no means...

BY TOM DEWEESE The American beef industry has long been a tasty target of the environmentalists and their allies in the animal rights movement. To...

PETER VAN DOREN, CATO INSTITUTE The EPA and conventional air pollution regulations are back in the news. NPR reported that the seven-member Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee...

Climate change isn't about the environment BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON I discussed in my previous column some of the scientific issues pertaining to the climate change...

PETER VAN DOREN, CATO INSTITUTE The Washington Post recently criticized the Trump administration for proposing to eliminate an Obama administration rule that would extend minimum lightbulb energy efficiency standards...

EMILY EKINS, CATO INSTITUTE Public opinion polls have long found that Americans say they are concerned about climate change. But does that mean people are...

The Congress of Racial Equality Uganda has lost another leader, but the fight continues BY PAUL DRIESSEN “She has gone to the Lord,” her sister Diana...

BY TOM DEWEESE Sometimes if you fight hard enough and refuse to back down, no matter the odds, your truth is vindicated and prevails! For twenty...

Why is the US EPA still determined to control plant food and drive up electricity prices? DR. TIM BALL AND TOM HARRIS On August 29, 2018,...

PATRICK J. MICHAELS, CATO INSTITUTE So EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is gone, the environmentalists’ noirest bete noire since James Watt ran the Interior Department early in the...

ROSS MCKITRICK, CATO INSTITUTE A communications group at Yale University has put out a video that seems to be a rebuttal to a Dilbert cartoon...

CRAIG D. IDSO, CATO INSTITUTE In previous postings, we investigated the likelihood of a serious climate-related concern expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on...

Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch The senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who scammed the agency out of nearly $1 million in pay without working got...

CRAIG D. IDSO, CATO INSTITUTE Parker and Ollier (2015) set the tone for their new paper on sea level change along the coastline of India...

STEPHEN GROVES, HERITAGE FOUNDATION The Obama Administration is planning an end run around the U.S. Senate in regard to a major international climate change agreement—the...

ROBERT T. SMITH, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers have released their final rule defining...

NICHOLAS LORIS, HERITAGE FOUNDATION A few years ago, cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions failed to reach President Barack Obama’s desk because constituents gave...

BY SARAH SKWIRE, THE FREEMAN It started with the pope. In his recent encyclical, Laudato Si’, he singled out air conditioning as a particularly good...

BY BOB BARR President Ronald Reagan was known as the “Great Communicator” for his remarkable ability to distill complex political and philosophical principles into one-liners...