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SCOTUS Slows Judicial Overreach in Environmental Cases as Ire Grows over Universal Injunctions
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Featured, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council A recent decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court has curbed some judicial overreach and continued a thread previously taken up by the nation’s highest court regarding the relationship between judicial interpretations and the authority of government agencies. In Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, decided Thursday, the Supreme Court vacated […]
Quantum Physics: The Subatomic Spark of Life on Earth and Beyond
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Amil Imani Staring at a fern in my apartment, a wild thought strikes me: this plant might be pulling off quantum tricks to soak up sunlight. Quantum physics – the bizarre world of particles dancing as waves and entangled across space — isn’t just for labs or sci-fi flicks. It’s the hidden pulse of […]
Thune Clears Way for Vote on Ending California’s EV Mandate
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has overcome Democrat opposition to proceeding to a vote this week on overturning California’s electric vehicle mandate. In a 53-to-46 party-line vote, the Senate on Wednesday moved to proceed with a vote on revoking a Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency exemption that enabled California to ban the sales of new […]
PODCAST: Trading Earth Day for ‘People Day’ and Is the United States Facing a Constitutional Crisis?
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV GUESTS AND TOPICS PAUL DRIESSEN Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and author of articles and books on energy, environmental and human rights issues. TOPIC: Trading Earth Day for ‘People Day’ JUDGE PHIL GINN Judge Phil Ginn was appointed president […]
Buying a New HVAC System
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Critically Thinking about a major homeowner expense. One of the reasons I was able to retire at age 34 — and to be able to enjoy a comfortable living since that time — is that I pay attention to expenditures. These range from groceries to income taxes. Today I’ll explain some […]
EXCLUSIVE: Massive Telecom Merger Champions Workers In A Way Biden Admin Never Could, FCC Chair Says
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Labor & Unions, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) greenlit Verizon’s $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications on Friday — but only after Chairman Brendan Carr insisted on a slate of labor protections he said there was “no way” the Biden administration would have pursued. The deal requires Verizon to adopt sweeping reforms benefitting tower climbers, trench […]
Montana Governor Tells Off Would-Be Banners
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Had enough of bans and mandates? Check out the masterful veto message Montana Governor Greg Gianforte sent the legislature when they tried to ban Styrofoam cups. Read Governor Gianforte’s full veto message here. “The free enterprise system works,” Gianforte wrote. “We should let it work, not have the heavy hand of […]
What America Can Learn from the Iberian Blackout
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Center For Security Policy America can learn from the Iberian Blackout the reality that green energy and one hundred percent renewable power are still subject to the laws of physics. Not even a week after media reports hailed the fact that “Spain hit the first weekday of one hundred percent renewable power on the national grid” […]
Hawaiʻi Condemns Administration’s Illegal Attemp to Interfere with State Lawsuit Against Big Oil
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Hawaii Free Press Hawaiʻi Sues Fossil Fuel Interests for Climate Deception (NOTE: Your beloved editor spent about 20 minutes debunking this news release. See remarks in parenthesis.) News Release 2025-59 from Office of Attorney General, May 1, 2025 HONOLULU — Attorney General Anne Lopez condemns the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit, filed in the U.S. […]
Green Energy Fixation Sends Spain Dark
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal VALENCIA, Spain—Two modern ills converged in Europe on Monday, literally one of the darkest days in decades. An ideological obsession with climate fanaticism left countries without power for hours, while censorship of “disinformation,” often information the powerful don’t like, plunged the population in an informational blackout in subsequent days. The electrical blackout brought planes, […]
‘Cost A Lot Of People Their Jobs’: JD Vance Slams Biden Admin For Deciding Products Would No Longer Be Made In America
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Vice President JD Vance on Thursday slammed former President Joe Biden’s administration during a speech at Nucor Steel Berkeley for deciding that products would be made overseas instead of in the United States. Vance said that over the last few decades, political leaders forgot about the “core part of American national […]
Trump’s First 100 Days: Executive Sprint, Legislative Snooze
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council President Donald Trump has begun his second term with “a barnstorm of a first 100 days,” as FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter put it on “Washington Watch.” The president himself has issued 143 executive orders, while his administration has moved in so many directions “at such an incredible pace that it’s almost hard to keep […]
Earth Day Reminder: Green Groups Linked To World’s Top Polluter
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Some prominent green groups — including ones that play up Earth Day — also happen to have financial connections to the government of China, the nation that pollutes the planet more than any other. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Energy Foundation China (EFC), Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and other entities […]
On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The White House Under President Donald J. Trump, America is back — leveraging environmental policies rooted in reality to promote economic growth while maintaining the standards that have afforded Americans the cleanest air and water in the world for generations. Unlike the previous administration, which wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on virtue signaling and […]
Crichton: Environmentalism is the ‘Religion of Choice for Urban Atheists’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Hawaii Free Press REMARKS TO THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB by Michael Crichton — San Francisco — September 15, 2003 I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth […]
Why Do “Green” Groups Oppose Nuclear Energy?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Capital Research Center Biden Administration Approved $485 Million for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits. During the last half of the Biden administration, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm began talking up the virtues of reliable, safe, and carbon-free nuclear energy. In August 2024 she called for constructing 98 more of our largest nuclear reactors—enough to power 50 million additional American […]
Solar Picnic Tables? How The Federal Government Has Treated Your Tax Dollars With Utter Disdain
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The House Oversight Committee’s subpanel on government efficiency held a hearing Tuesday exposing billions of taxpayer dollars wasted annually on outdated federal buildings. Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who leads the Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency (DOGE), opened the hearing by slamming federal agencies for maintaining a bloated real estate […]
Inside the now-shuttered ‘East German-style’ EPA Museum — Gore says goodbye to USA?!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano from Climate Depot WATCH: Peek inside the now-shuttered EPA Museum that closed because it cost $4mil to build, $600k annually to operate & received less than 2000 visitors Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “The now-defunct EPA Museum evokes memories of an old East German government propaganda effort. Future generations will look back on […]
EXCLUSIVE: How Small Town America Stopped A Chinese Communist Party Takeover
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A U.S. electric vehicle battery manufacturer with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has suspended its permit application to build a plant near a Michigan National Guard base following fierce opposition. Chuck Thelen, CEO of Gotion Inc. — a “wholly owned and controlled” subsidiary of Chinese company Hefei Gotion High-Tech […]
‘Years of Climate Action Demolished in 52 Days’ By Trump — A ‘Climate Onslaught’
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano from Climate Depot WATCH: Morano on Fox & Friends on Amazon rainforest being clear-cut for 4-lane highway for UN climate summit: ‘This is beyond parody. If they really cared about the rainforest or the climate, they would have a Zoom conference’ ‘Years of Climate Action Demolished in Days’ By Trump! — […]
House Republicans Seek To Repeal More Biden Green Energy Regulations
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The House of Representatives will seek to overturn several Biden administration climate regulations limiting consumer choice later this week. Speaker Mike Johnson is slated to bring two joint resolutions of disapproval to the House floor to repeal green energy standards for home appliances including refrigerators and freezers. The regulations were issued […]
Burgum Says U.S. Natural Resources Could Equal $100 Trillion as Trump Expands Alaskan Drilling
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council In a move to vastly expand energy production within the United States, the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it will reopen over 80% of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to oil and gas drilling. The action comes as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum suggested that the total value of […]
It Rhymes With ‘Greenies’
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller IT RHYMES WITH ‘GREENIES’ It looks like Greenpeace could go kaput. Nine North Dakotan jurors in a defamation, trespass, nuisance, and civil conspiracy case awarded Dallas-based Energy Transfer a $660 million judgment Wednesday against Greenpeace. The case revolves around the activist group’s actions to prevent the Dakota Access pipeline. The award, […]
PODCAST: Trump Dismantling Bogas Climate Policies and COVID, It’s Safe to Tell Truths Now!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV GUESTS AND TOPICS STEVE GORHAM Steve Goreham is Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition of America and author of four books on energy, climate change, and sustainable development, with over 100,000 copies in print. Steve’s new book, Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure, came out August […]
EPA Slashes Climate Change Red Tape, Claws Back $20B Climate Slush Fund
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated a vast reversal of the regulatory-heavy, climate change fear-based policies of the Biden administration, announcing Wednesday that it is taking 31 actions to remove red tape for the energy and automotive industries and lower the cost of living for Americans. The agency also announced […]
EPA Announces 31 ‘Historic Actions’ to Unleash American Energy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Sweeping Deregulation, Cancels Over 400 Grants Saving Taxpayers $1.7 Billion. “Today is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen. We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back […]
Mann vs Science: Science Wins! — a.k.a. Mann v Steyn, et. al.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. The public perception is that Dr. Michael Mann has become the standard bearer of climate change. After all, he invented the climate hockey stick idea, which has been relentlessly seared into the public’s consciousness by a complicit lamestream media. In effect, his graph has arguably been the premier example of real Science having […]
EXCLUSIVE: How Chris Wright Plans To Help America Climb Out Of Energy ‘Hole’ Dug By Biden Admin
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller HOUSTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright explained his plans to fortify America’s fragile power grid and a host of other energy policy issues in a Monday interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Wright has his work cut out for him atop the Department of Energy (DOE) after the Biden administration and […]
‘Sabotage’ Replaces ‘Protest’ as Teslas Torched – ‘Climate Crap’ Gone from Pentagon
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano from Climate Depot Watch: Morano on Varney on Fox on how climate change has hijacked the environmental movement & why Trump’s EPA rejects classifying CO2 as a pollutant Watch: Morano on Fox urges ethics investigation into Sen. Whitehouse for voting for wife’s salary & warns Canada’s new PM Mark Carney as worse […]
Suprise, global warming benefits humanity and Trump’s energy will save U.S economy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV GUESTS AND TOPICS DAVID HOLT David Holt has served as President of Consumer Energy Alliance since January 2006. David focuses on expanding the dialogue between the energy sector and the rest of the economy. With members spanning the economy and representing families, farmers, small businesses, distributors, labor organizations, […]