On Tuesday, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., blamed global warming for the tornado that struck Oklahoma, and called for a carbon tax in a speech on the Senate floor, The Daily Caller reported. “This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather: Not just hot weather, but extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when [...]

A trio of new studies out this week have undermined three of the basic ideas underpinning the belief that the world is facing imminent doom as a result of human carbon emissions and perhaps-associated global warming in past decades. It would seem that the menaces of a runaway feedback loop driven by carbon belching from [...]

The oil and gas industry’s leading trade association accused the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday of skirting federal law by cutting short public consideration of new regulations meant to curb air pollution. By limiting the comment period for the rule to just 23 days, the EPA is would be violating the Clean Air Act – in [...]

Anchorage, Alaska set a record last week for its longest snow season on record. The city also set a record for its lowest May 17 maximum temperature. Global warming activists often claim Alaska is among the places most negatively affected by warming temperatures. In his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore claimed warming temperatures are [...]

A proposed rule intended to cut pollution from automobiles is to be published Tuesday in the Federal Register, nearly two months after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) detailed the draft regulations. Interested parties and members of the public have until June 13 to weigh in on the 1572-page proposal to require lower sulfur content in [...]

As president of the Kentucky Coal Association, I want to respond to your recent editorial in which you condemned Sen. Mitch McConnell for his effort to bring legislative reform to the Obama administration’s Clean Water Act permit program. Your theme appears to be that the Eastern Kentucky coal mining industry is in such desperate economic [...]

Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records. “According to documents obtained by the Committees, EPA readily granted FOIA fee waivers for environmental allies, effectively subsidizing them, while denying fee waivers and making [...]

Among the greatest liars on Earth today is the international organization called Friends of the Earth (FOE). It has engaged in the most scurrilous fear-mongering for decades, along with Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the World Wildlife Fund, while all the time they pulled in billions in funding. In May 2012, the Daily Caller noted [...]

When former EPA head Lisa Jackson mounted the pulpit to call for the “bankruptcy of coal” in January 2012, she released a firestorm of supporters agitating not only against the use of coal for power generation and iron ore/steel conversions, but who are now active in attempting to stop all coal exports. This would, in [...]

The Bakken and Three Forks formations in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana contain significantly more oil-and-gas resources than previously thought, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reassessment. The survey found an estimated 7.4 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable shale oil (resources that can be recovered with current technology but whose precise location is [...]