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ENVIRONMENT

CA Refinery Fire Drives Up Gas Prices in AZ and NV

By Kenneth Schrupp Editors’ Note: EPA requirements for a “special blend” destroys the gasoline market because arbitrage can’t take place. Further, it leaves the future of Arizona in terms of gasoline supply at the tender mercies of the insane bureaucrats in California. Arizona’s Congressional delegation must free us from dependence on California for gasoline supplies. […]

Can America Withstand the Socialist Left’s Assault?

By George Leef Socialist experiments fail, routinely and often horribly. So Marxists took over institutions in an attempt to fool the masses. Sometimes a book’s cover gives the reader a particularly clear preview of its contents. The cover of JT Young’s book Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed the Socialist Left has portraits of George Washington and […]

DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Agenda Will Likely Take On An Entirely New Shape

By David Blackmon Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes During his campaign and since taking office, President Donald Trump often repeated his desire to bring back the same “drill, baby, drill” oil and gas agenda that characterized his first term in office. But that term began 8 long years ago and much has changed in the […]

Trump Executive Order Forces New Jersey to Cancel Its First Offshore Wind Farm

By The Geller Report Whale lives saved! Whales are jumping for joy oceanwide. First 100 Days Trump: Executive order forces New Jersey to cancel its first offshore wind farm New Jersey governor asks Trump to help him ‘promote energy security’ By Deirdre Heavey, Fox News, February 5, 2025 4:00am EST President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters […]

Chatting with AlexAI RE: Energy Issues

By John Droz, Jr. A new Energy AI put together by conservative energy guru Alex Epstein I thought that this piece would be appropriate, following my recent recommendations to the new federal DOE Secretary, Chris Wright… Artificial Intelligence (AI) sources are quickly becoming all the rage. Once the marketing fluff is scraped away, the single most important […]

Senate Confirms Burgum To Usher In America’s Golden Age Of Land Management

By Tristan Justice Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: Hopefully, the management of public lands will change direction with this new appointment. This could prove crucial to Arizona, which has enormous amounts of Federal land. Over the past 25 years, large swaths of land have been removed from any private usage by the expansion […]

Trump Drops Truth Bomb On Green Energy

By Steve Goreham Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes President Trump has long been a supporter of traditional energy. During his campaign, he spoke negatively about electric vehicles, wind, and other renewable energy sources. But in his first day in office, the new president began a historic shift in US energy policy, away from green energy […]

Trump Week One Recap

By The Geller Report It’s been one week since President Trump was inaugurated. Here’s a mind blowing recap of what he has accomplished week one: Truly historic. Source: (X) 1. Immigration: national emergency at the Southern border deployed thousands of troops there ordered construction of the wall ordered Homeland security to remove illegal migrants designated cartels […]

Trump is ‘greatest environmental hero’ for saving whales—The Great Reject to Davos—‘Putting a stake through heart of UN globalist climate scam’

By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Watch: Morano on Fox and Friends on offshore wind: Trump is turning out to be the ‘greatest environmental hero’ of the 21st century – He is filling the void of the missing ‘Volvo driving save the whale liberals’ Morano featured on FoxNews.com: The ‘Trump Effect’: ‘Trump is poised to, […]

Critically Thinking about the Department of Energy

By John Droz, Jr. Three Powerful, Practical, Plausible Recommendations to Improve it. Arguably, for the first time in modern US history, the federal government is: open to making radical changes in government agencies, has the right political perspective, and is receptive to citizen inputs. Yes, there are always reasons to be skeptical — but the upside […]

DAVID BLACKMON: ESG Is Collapsing And Net Zero Is Going With It

By David Blackmon Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Just a few years ago, ESG was all the rage in the banking and investing community as globalist governments in the western world focused on a failing attempt to subsidize an energy transition into reality. The strategy was to try to strangle fossil fuel industries by denying them funding […]

Germany and Britain Play Woke-a-Dope

By Craig J. Cantoni Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes They are committing economic and cultural suicide with their woke policies on immigration and other issues. Just about every evening, my wife and I are on suicide watch.  You see, we watch DW News out of Berlin and then BBC News out of London.  On full […]

Climate Kleptocrats Reeling from Trump Executive Orders

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Tired of all the winning? We’re not either.  CFACT is energized! Woke climate campaigners and profiteers are not having a good day. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, said, “the global clean energy boom – worth US $2 trillion last year alone and rising fast – is […]

President Trump Withdraws From Paris Climate Hoax Accord, Again!

By The Geller Report President Trump exits the Paris Climate Accord which cost American taxpayers billions. Withdrawing will save we, the people, over $1 TRILLION dollars. The climate hoax is the biggest money heist in human history. The pact achieved nothing. President Trump: “I’m immediately withdrawing from the unfair one-sided Paris Climate Accord ripoff. The […]

Los Angeles County Residents Sacrificed On The Altar Of Wokeness

By Mark Wallace Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes “By their fruits ye shall know them,” is an old quote from the Bible (Matthew 7: 16-20).  It is essentially another way of saying that people’s natures and characters are best shown by what they do, not by what they say.  Words are cheap; action is what […]

The Infamous Delta Smelt Fish Has Not Been Seen in Nearly a Decade – California Allowed Its Cities to Burn to the Ground Over a Fish That They Can’t Even Find Anymore

By Jim Hoft Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute The tiny Delta Smelt fish have not been seen in the wild in California in over a decade. And yet, California Democrats flushed annual water flow into the ocean to save this little fish that they can’t even find in its natural habitat. Now several cities […]

Why Los Angeles is burning

By MercatorNet – A Compass for Common Sense My hometown during the 2017 fires in which my childhood home was burned and many friends and neighbors lost their homes and animals, and nine lost their lives. After years of fire and smoke in rural Northern California—evacuations, death and destruction, broken communities, lost homes—watching Los Angeles […]

15 Questions That Will Put an End to the ‘Climate Scare’ Once-and-for-All

By Ronald Stein Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes To support the growth of health and prosperity worldwide for the 8 billion on this planet in the coming decades, and the increasing demand for electricity, and for the 6,000+ products in our materialistic society, and for the various transportation fuels ⏤ will challenge humanity’s creativity to […]

What is World War III really being fought over and why?

By Leo Hohmann We hear a lot in the conservative media about the dangers of socialism, communism, Islamism and so many other “isms.” But World War III, which is already well underway in my opinion, is not being fought over ideologies. It’s being fought over energy and natural resources. I’m not saying ideology is unimportant. […]

‘A Huge Win’: Woke ‘Cartel’ Of Financial Giants Dealt Death Blow 11 Days Before Trump Takes Office

By Daily Caller News Foundation Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Asset management behemoth BlackRock wrote a letter to institutional investors Thursday announcing its exit from an emissions-focused investor group, according to the Financial Times (FT). The firm, which manages over $10 trillion and has been a leader in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, has left the […]

The California Fires Are Not Climate

By Chris Martz Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes To Senator Sanders: Hi there Colonel Sanders.  Do you like facts?  ADVERTISEMENT I hope you do, because you’re about to be sacked with some.  Here we go. . . First, climate change does cause forest fires. That isn’t how this works. Fires require an ignition source and […]

‘Excuses Go Up In Flames’: California Dems Paved The Way For Los Angeles To Be Consumed By ‘The Big One’

By The Daily Caller Southern California was known for years to be vulnerable to potentially devastating wildfires, but Democratic officials did not take sufficient action before proceeding to botch the response to fires currently devastating the Los Angeles area. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom failed to follow through on a signature 2019 initiative to revamp the state’s approach to […]

Victor Davis Hanson on California Wildfires: “A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb — The Alarming Symptoms of a Society Gone Mad.”

By The Geller Report “It’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb — the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad.” — Victor David Hanson WATCH: Victor David Hanson: LA fires are ‘the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad’ VDH weighs in on the LA fires: “It’s something like a DEI Green […]

The Rise of MAGA Marks the End of Corporate Wokeness

By Karen Schoen This has been quite an anti-woke week. More and more companies are finding they are losing market share. It looks like the end of wokeness is on the way. How can I say that? Easy. Larry Fink CEO of the criminal enterprise Blackrock just announced that Blackrock will no longer participate in […]

Fed scientist: ‘L.A. Fires Not Climate Change’, Trump to undo G.H.W. Bush’s climate ‘mess’ and Biden’s ‘Domestic energy terrorism against USA’

By Marc Morano from Climate Depot WATCH: Morano in ‘fiery’ Fox & Friends interview: Time for Trump to get us out of the climate ‘mess’ that George H. W. Bush got us into – Morano: Shut down ‘all of the woke climate programs’ & form Climate Committee to challenge UN science  WATCH: Morano on […]

Here Are All The Ways DEI-Crazed Officials Made The LA Fire More Deadly

By Beth Brelje Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Los Angeles has lost sight of the reason fire departments exist. As relentless fires burn in Los Angeles, thousands of residents who fled their homes are just learning how poorly public officials prepared for such an event. Emergency response leaders following bad public policy have been too […]

PODCAST: Trump Vows to Reverse Biden’s Bans on Gas Heaters & Offshore Drilling

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV GUESTS AND TOPICS: FRANK VERNUCCIO Frank Vernuccio  serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government, providing objective coverage of key issues facing the United States today.  Frank is the co-host of the Vernuccio/Novak Report, nationally both on broadcast radio and the web at amfm247.com.  FRANK […]

Germany’s New Morgenthau Plan

By Victor Davis Hanson Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Less than a year before the end of World War II, then-U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II—along with the failed Versailles peace treaty […]

Biden Permanently Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling Along Most U.S. Coasts, 625 Million Acres — Trump vows to undo it

By The Geller Report VOTER SUPPRESSION: Biden’s permanent ban on offshore drilling is an attempt to deny Trump his mandate. Make no mistake it will take 2-4 years for the courts to decide whether Biden’s decisions are final. Regardless Biden will have won – suppressing the will of the voters. America voted for more energy […]

The True Cost of Wind Energy — Wind energy is one of our MOST EXPENSIVE energy options!

By John Droz, Jr. When I wrote the original version of this last year, some attentive readers said that although my list of ten costs were spot-on, I should have added more. My original list was intended to be a summary, not all inclusive. That said I believe that se veral of their suggested additions are not trivial, […]