While the nation tries to come to grips with the cascade of scandals involving the Obama administration, a significant phenomenon has been occurring. It is the demise of the global warming/climate change hoax that has driven national and international policies since the 1980s. Directed from within the bowels of the most corrupt international organization on [...]

Empowered by a recent court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency is coopting arcane laws to inhibit economic development and kill thousands of jobs. In order for a mining operating to begin production, developers must apply for and receive a handful of permits. One such mandatory permit is the Section 404 permit required under the Clean [...]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering upping the ethanol requirement in gasoline this summer — a move that threatens to ignite a new fuel war. “The dialogue should be to repeal the renewable targets and let the market decide,”Charles Drevna, president of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, said at a conference last week. Opposing requirements [...]

“We’re not going to roll over.” That’s a phrase we’re beginning to hear more and more — from business owners refusing to be preyed upon by unscrupulous lawyers with bogus claims, or fighting back against overzealous bureaucrats whose illogical rules and arbitrary penalties stifle enterprise. We like the sound of that defiant proclamation, and the [...]

Millions of consumers could soon pay the price of  the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) heedless rush to foist a gasoline blend of 15 percent ethanol, or E15 onto the marketplace. This is yet another harmful manifestation of EPA’s rigid implementation of the fatally flawed  Renewable Fuels Standard. Fundamentally, and what the agency fails to grasp, [...]

President Barack Obama may be just a month away from releasing the  second-term climate change strategy that activists and donors are  waiting impatiently for, although the details and timing appear to still be in  flux. Two former Obama administration officials told POLITICO late Thursday that  they have heard that Obama plans to roll out a [...]

Climate Change: The New York Times is wondering, as are other  mainstream media outlets, “What to Make of a Warming Plateau.” If the media had  a more critical eye, they’d see what they’ve been expecting is wrong. The Times reported Monday that “The rise in the surface temperature of earth  has been markedly slower over [...]