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CFACT’s 2023 Impact Report

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow 2023 was one of CFACT’s best years yet! Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, CFACT was able to impact the public-interest debate as never before, both in the United States and around the world. I’m therefore so pleased to present you our brand new 2023 Impact Report!  From […]

Biden’s New Rule on Auto Emissions Will Accelerate Death Spiral for Auto Manufacturers

By Ronald Stein For one of the wealthier countries on this planet, America, with 330 million that represents about 4% of the world’s 8 billion on this planet, President Biden is speeding ahead with EV mandates to ditch most new gas cars by 2030. Biden may not be cognizant that 80 percent of the 8 […]

DAVID BLACKMON: New EPA Auto Emission Rules Reflect The Madness Of King Biden

By The Daily Caller In a move that is certain to be challenged in the courts, the Biden Environmental Protection Agency enacted a de facto ban on many gas-powered cars this week in the form of a final regulation on allowable tailpipe emissions. The regulation is designed to force two-thirds of new light-duty cars and 46% of […]

Biden’s New Zero Agenda Spells Trouble Down On The Farm And Supermarket

By Bonner Cohen Feeling the heat from farmers dumping manure in front of government buildings across the Continent, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is pumping the brakes on a pillar of the European Union’s Net-Zero climate policy and withdrawing an EU-wide bill that would force farmers to reduce the use of chemical pesticides […]

EXCLUSIVE: Firm Tied To China’s Military Industrial Complex Plans To Roll Out Massive Battery Chemical Plants In U.S.

By The Daily Caller The Chinese manufacturer of chemicals for electric vehicle batteries planning to build two U.S. factories has long-standing ties to China’s military industrial complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Capchem Technology USA, the wholly-owned subsidiary of China-based Shenzhen Capchem Technology (Capchem), plans to build factories in both Ohio and Louisiana that would […]

DAVID BLACKMON: The Energy Transition Has Become A Big Green Hot Mess

By The Daily Caller We spend a lot of time talking and writing about the green energy subsidies contained in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. That’s appropriate given that bill’s content of a raft of incentives and subsidies the CBO estimated would amount to $369 billion over 10 years, a number that some analysts have […]

A Tale Of Two Johns As SPEC [A John Kerry Tale]

By Duggan Flanakin Leave it to Joe Biden. When the 80-year-old plutocrat John Forbes Kerry steps down as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC), he chose 75-year-old John David Podesta, Jr., to finish out the year. The two climate czars could not have come from more different beginnings. For his self-important mission to “save the […]

How I ‘Made Sea Level Rise Go Away’!

By John Droz, Jr. A short story behind the story Some readers may be surprised that I’m more than a pretty face. Through persistence, invaluable help from allies, and dumb luck, I’ve had some influence on a wide variety of issues, on local, state, and national levels. A reward for this is that I’ve been […]

A Lesson for America: Green Policies Crush German Economy

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Alexander Frei Germany’s gross domestic product has been falling since the third quarter of 2022, causing fears of the first 2-yearlong recession since the early 2000s. German farmers are openly protesting new climate regulations that would raise the price of diesel fuel, vital for tractors and farm machinery. This discontent is mirrored by the […]

ROOKE: Leaked Docs Reveal The Trans Cult Is Going Even Further Than We Ever Knew

By Mary Rooke An environmental group released leaked documents from the world’s top organization of doctors determining the correct course on youth and adult transgender healthcare late Monday. The findings inside the WPATH Files published by Environmental Progress expose the sinister reality of this pseudoscience that has captured American children and goes far beyond anything we could have imagined. […]

It’s Climate Fact Check Time

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Another month, another load of unvetted climate exaggerations and misrepresentations that climate campaigners set bouncing about the media echo chamber. Fortunately, CFACT and our partners are on the job correcting the record. Each month we work together to publish a scholarly climate “fact check” that debunks Green propaganda with […]

One of Saturn’s Moons has More Oil and Natural Gas than Earth. Why?

By Dr. Rich Swier Greenies, a.k.a. the Biden regime, are bent on ending the use of all fossil fuels. They argue that fossil fuels cause climate change. It that true? If the Greenies get their way and end all use of fossil fuels, then what will happen to mankind? Here’s an interesting take on fossil […]

State Universities Are Teaching Students To Blow Up Oil Pipelines, Records Show

By Luke Rosiak ‘How to Blow Up A Pipeline’ author wants to send message to ‘capitalists’ that ‘their properties will be trashed’ At least sixteen universities are promoting the book “How to Blow Up A Pipeline,” which outlines for readers how to commit eco-terrorism — oftentimes making it required reading, a Daily Wire investigation found. […]

VIDEO: Amazon Streaming Eco-Terrorism film ‘How to blow up a pipeline’!

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow A young girl in a hoodie draws a knife, kneels beside an SUV, and slashes two of its tires.  She slaps a paper on the windshield — “Why I sabotaged your property.” This is the opening scene of a movie you can stream right now on Hulu, or rent from Amazon, […]

‘Another Day, Another Regulation’: DOE Continues War On Appliances, Locks In Regs For Clothes Washers And Dryers

By The Daily Caller The Biden administration finalized regulations for residential clothes washers and dryers on Thursday. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is locking in the “energy efficiency” regulations for residential clothes washers and dryers, marking the latest development in the Biden administration’s wide effort to shape markets to decidedly favor more energy efficient […]

Foreign Billionaire-Backed Climate Org Pressuring Broadcasters To Censor Ads Critical Of Biden’s EV Mandate

By Nick Pope A green nonprofit that is indirectly funded by a foreign billionaire is pressuring broadcasters to drop advertisements that criticize the Biden administration’s massive electric vehicle (EV) agenda. Climate Power wrote to numerous broadcasters this week demanding that they stop airing American Fuel and Petrochemicals Manufacturers (AFPM)-funded advertisements in swing state markets that […]

Are Policymakers Oblivious to the Importance of Crude Oil, or Are They Intentionally Sending Us Back to the 18th Century?

By Ronald Stein The elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss is that crude oil is the foundation of our materialistic society as it is the basis of all products and fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet. World leaders are not cognizant enough to know that wind turbines and solar panels only […]

Bill Allowing Cheaper Blends Of Gasoline Passes Arizona Senate

By Cameron Arcand Editors Note: If you travel much by car, you likely have noticed that gasoline is often cheaper in rural communities, in New Mexico, and Colorado.  That is because “special blends” are required for urban areas in Arizona. This is strange because Denver is a large metropolitan area situated in a bowl surrounded […]

EU Blamed Muslim Jihadis’ Genocide of Nigerian Christians on Climate Change

By Catherine Salgado The European Union (EU) Parliament finally acknowledged the horror of the genocide against Nigerian Christians—but blamed the fake climate crisis instead of the very real Islamic terrorists. Islamic scriptures approve and encourage the killing of non-Muslims and militants in Nigeria have zealously carried out a decades-long genocide against Christians that has left […]

Bogus ‘ESG’ Group Rates China’s Slave-Fueled Energy Firms Better Than U.S. Oil And Gas Companies

By Chuck Devore Editors’ Note: Either by accident or design (your choice), the environmental movement and its subsidiary the ESG movement, always seems to tilt the scales towards benefiting China and hurting the US. Whether making us dependent on Chinese-dominated solar panels and windmills, weakening our electrical grid, willfully overlooking the massive use of coal […]

Mercedes-Benz Walks Back On Huge Electric Vehicle Commitment Amid Slowing Demand

By The Daily Caller Mercedes-Benz on Thursday walked back plans to have an all-electric line-up by 2030 as consumers decline to adopt electric vehicles (EV) at the rate automakers expected. The company has changed its expectations to have only 50% of its sales be EVs by 2030, announcing that it will be updating its current line-up featuring […]

Mr. Bean Was Right About EVs And So Was Toyota

By Duggan Flanakin When auto (even EV driving) enthusiast Rowan Atkinson – Mr. Bean to his fans – last June wrote in The Guardian that there are “sound environmental reasons” why “keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV,” he was vilified as an eco-traitor. Atkinson had added, “We’re realizing that a wider […]

Read The Lie Filled Letter I Got From Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

By Dr. Rich Swier I received a letter, below, from Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. in response to my concern about the rising cost of energy in America. After reading his letter I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry. It was so filled with myths, lies and propaganda. Here are some of the lies […]

Woke Investment Managers Pull $15.7 Trillion from Climate Activism Pact

By Family Research Council BlackRock and other U.S.-based investment management conglomerates have chosen to withdraw from a controversial initiative, Climate Action 100+ (CA100+), that pressured companies to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions” to “net-zero emissions by 2050 [or] sooner,” in pursuit of “limiting global average temperature increase” to 1.5 degrees above “pre-industrial levels.” The withdrawals follow financial and legal pressure […]

The Four Corners of Environmental Opinion

By Neland Nobel After the experience of Covid lockdowns, the manipulation of Federal Agencies and online platforms, the invasion of privacy, the suppression of free speech and assembly, and then the wild spending and debt burden undertaken to address problems caused by the government itself many Americans are left wondering if we could see a […]

Understanding Solar Flares and What They Can Do To Us

By Amil Imani The sun, our life-giving star, is a dynamic ball of constantly changing plasma.  Among the most spectacular phenomena it produces are solar flares, intense bursts of light, and energetic radiation that erupt from its surface.  While these events capture our imagination, they also raise concerns. Solar flares originate in the sun’s atmosphere, specifically in […]

Big Climate Tries to Censor Opponents — Block TV Ads Opposing Biden’s EV Mandate.

By The Geller Report The objective of the climate complex is to remove as much of our freedom as possible. JP Morgan Chase, BlackRock and State Street have confirmed they are exiting the world’s largest climate alliance which seeks to push investors away from funding the fossil fuel sector. It’s a hoax. So the truth […]

Bill Gates’ Dark Dream of Blocking Sunlight from the Earth is About to be Realized

By Leo Hohmann “And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the Earth.” -Rev. 11:18 Bill Gates, ever the demented snake oil salesman, has long argued in favor of a bizarre plan to fight global warming by […]

Kill Them All — O’Biden/Globalist Net Zero Agenda

By Karen Schoen Let’s start out with a little humor. Remember this: Humor  What a week this was I hardly know where to start. One thing we should have learned is that when we call our legislators and conduct oversight it works. Because of our efforts the non-border border bill was killed. But fear […]

CONSERVATION NATION VIDEO: The Biden Threat to Alaskan Mining

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow We just released a new episode of our “wildly” popular original video series, Conservation Nation. Please watch our Conservation Nation videos.  In this latest program, host Gabriella Hoffman (who also serves as a CFACT senior policy analyst) journeys to Alaska to look into how mining operations are carried out […]