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Energy Department Cuts $7.56 Billion in Green Projects
By Family Research Council The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has terminated nearly $8 billion in green energy projects, it announced Thursday, determining “that they did not meet the economic, national security or energy security standards necessary to justify continued investment.” The cancellations delivered on President Trump’s agenda to “protect taxpayer dollars and expand America’s supply of […]
Trump EPA Putting Black Americans Back in Driver’s Seat
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Take a look at the article CFACT’s Donna Jackson posted on Fox News explaining the benefits to America’s Black community of keeping cars affordable. Donna reports that “EPA has proposed the repeal of new tailpipe standards that would have tacked on an agency-estimated $2,100 to the already-rising sticker prices for new gasoline-powered vehicles.” As […]
Why Our Systems Collapse
By Victor Davis Hanson Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes When merit is replaced with ideology, fires rage unchecked, killers walk free, and fragile systems collapse—leaving lives and cities in ruin. America has a lot of built-in safety backups and redundancies. But every once in a while, when tradition, science, time-tested protocols, and common sense are […]
TRANSCRIPT: Trump’s Epic UN Climate and Energy Takedown
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow President Trump shocked the UN General Assembly on Tuesday with a speech that presented the raw, unvarnished facts about climate and energy policy. CFACT’s Marc Morano said, “President Trump delivered to the UN a speech that will go down in history as the most powerful, honest, and accurate climate […]
Kennedy vs. Big Food: Who Is Funding The Fight Against MAHA?
By Tiffany Gabbay Estimated Reading Time: 20 minutes Editors’ Note: We usually would not run an article of this length. But given the recent grandstanding we saw when RFK, Jr. was before the Senate, we thought a deeper dive was a necessity, so we hope you take the time. It is a complex tale of […]
Trump flushes climate movement ‘down the toilet’, NYT admits it’s ‘a uniquely bleak time’—Europe sees ‘Tide Turning Decisively Against Net Zero’
By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Morano on Fox talking 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – Activists keep blaming every bad weather event on ‘climate change’ Watch: Morano on Fox: ‘EPA’s Lee Zeldin has become the most consequential EPA chief in the history of the agency, going back to its creation under Richard Nixon’ […]
Gas Prices Hit 5-Year Low on Labor Day Weekend
By The Geller Report More news the enemedia wont’t cover. The national average was $3.15 per gallon. California remains the big loser in this contest with the highest gas prices in the nation at $4.45 per gallon (EIA). Trump’s Energy Agenda Pays Off: Labor Day Gas Prices Hit 5-Year Low Sarah Arnold This Labor Day, […]
Thoughts On Pima County From A Stupid Masochist
By Craig J. Cantoni Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The county’s quick approval of a data center is the latest example of treating residents like a saguaro cactus I moved to metro Tucson seven years ago, and, specifically, to the suburban area known as the Foothills, which is just north of the city limit of […]
What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy?
By Victor Davis Hanson Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes The Democrat Party abandoned the middle class for elites and identity politics—trading broad appeal for globalism, DEI dogma, and political self-destruction The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” […]
The Odd Enemies Of Nuclear Energy
By The Editors of Capital Research Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s silly & hypocritical enough that lefty climate nonprofits oppose carbon free nuclear power. But why are religious and civil rights groups joining them? Anti-nuclear advocacy is a booming business. There are more than 300 anti-nuclear nonprofits in America, including powerhouses such as the Sierra Club, Rocky Mountain […]
Regulating C02 Has Lead To Global Imbalances
By Duggan Flanakin The global push to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, based on the questionable premise that increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere threaten to trigger a global climate catastrophe, has wreaked havoc on energy and economic development in the United States, Europe, and Africa while giving so-called “emerging” nations like China and India […]
Trump’s “Unleashing American Energy”: America Is Fast Returning as an Energy Superpower
By The Geller Report He saved this country. Trump vows US ban on wind and solar projects as energy bills soar: ‘Days of stupidity are over’ In 2022, The American Energy Alliance began keeping a tally of all the actions Biden and the Democrats had taken to make it harder to produce oil and gas. […]
Record Electricity Demand Signals the Need for New Reliable Power
By Paige Lambermont Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes In July, two separate records for hourly power demand were set for the Lower-48 states. Amid summer heat on July 28th, demand hit 758,000 megawatts (MW) for the hour between 6 PM and 7 PM. The next day, demand climbed even higher, breaking the record at 759,180 MW. The […]
Scientists Lying About Science II
By John Droz, Jr. This is a follow-up to Part 1 of this important discussion. The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) was originally set up by Abraham Lincoln in 1863! The initial intentions were excellent: to provide objective, Science-based assistance to Americans. This came about as all indications were that increasingly technical matters were beyond the understanding of most citizens, so […]
Center for Security Policy Commends Senator Rick Scott for “PROTECT the Grid” Act
By Center For Security Policy Center for Security Policy President & CEO, Lt. Col. Tommy Waller (USMC Ret.) joined four-time Emmy Award winning investigator Grant Stinchfield to commend Florida Senator Rick Scott’s recent filing of the “PROTECT the Grid” Act. The interview begins at 16:39. As Waller explains, the Preventing Remote Operations by Threatening Entities on […]
“Climate Science is Baaaack!”
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow by Judith Curry Climate science is baaaack Energy Secretary Chris Wright has commissioned a new climate assessment report: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate From the Secretary’s Foreword: What I’ve found is that media coverage often distorts the science. Many people—even well-meaning […]
Democrat accusses Trump of doing ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ by dismantling climate agenda!
By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Morano on Fox: EPA Chief: ‘Lee Zeldin is the most consequential EPA Chief in the history of the agency’ – ‘He is dismantling the climate agenda.” MUST Watch: British TV show’s dead-on take on ‘climate change’ – The most accurate & funny way of explaining why politicians get involved […]
The Future Of Nuclear Might Be Small
By Duggan Flanikin Written by Duggan Flanikin Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes As the news gets around that two Chinese companies have developed commercially viable miniature nuclear-powered batteries with potential to operate for up to a century to power everything from pacemakers to remote sensors to multiple uses in outer space, other companies from China […]
On The Markets: How To Play The Revival In Nuclear Power
By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel After the events of Three Mile Island and the subsequent misleading movie The China Syndrome, nuclear power was all but dead by 1980. While nuclear power was moribund in the private sector, that was not true, ironically, for the public sector. The biggest users of small nuclear reactors […]
EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow INDIANAPOLIS — At an auto dealership in Indiana, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris Administration’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. If finalized, the proposal would […]
Proposed Rule: Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards
By Editors of CFACT Written by Editors of CFACT Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: While tariffs have gotten most of the headlines, the Trump Administration’s effort to deregulate the US economy has continued apace. This latest modification in EPA rules regarding so-called “greenhouse gases” could be among the most essential reforms ever enacted. […]
The New Industrial Policy of AI and Data Centers
By Craig J. Cantoni Written by Craig J. Cantoni Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The week of July 20 was quite a week for Tucson and the nation. Central planners, mercantilists, and crony capitalists were as excited about building data centers needed to power artificial intelligence as termites were about building wood-frame houses in Tucson. […]
The Prescott Plaza Downtown Hotel Controversy Looms Large
By David (Cowboy Dave) Segall Written by David (Cowboy Dave) Segall Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Many concerns still plague the proposed Prescott Plaza Hotel, currently under consideration for construction in downtown Prescott, in the heart of Whiskey Row. On Tuesday, July 22, 2025, the Historic Preservation Committee once again voted to recommend to the Prescott City […]
Prescott’s Development Dilemma
By Suzanne Cook Catlin Written by Suzanne Cook Catlin Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Ronald Reagan once commented on how the values of the Democratic Party had shifted when he said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” Prescott, Arizona, conservatives could easily apply that to Prescott. “I didn’t leave Prescott’s […]
The End Of The Green Panic
By Jeff Reynolds Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s implausible, impractical, and the opposite of urgent. The theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) has proven to hold little importance for the citizens of the world, and now that Donald Trump has reascended to the White House and targeted green energy boondoggles for elimination, the world […]
This Land Is Your Land
By Tony Francois Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Senator Lee should introduce the New Frontier Homestead Act of 2026 Should the federal government auction less than one percent of non-conservation status public lands to alleviate housing shortages and reduce the federal debt? This is how Utah Senator Mike Lee tried to frame the question when […]
Trump’s EPA chief clears the air on chemtrails and geoengineering, in the interest of ‘total transparency’
By Leo Hohmann After an exhaustive investigation published on EPA websites, Director Lee Zeldin says Americans now know everything he knows about those mysterious ‘streaks in the sky’, which apparently isn’t much! There have long been claims about the exhaust trails from commercial and military jets traveling over the United States. You’ve all seen them. […]
Gas Crisis Looms Over California As Dems Continue To Impose Crippling Regs
By Audrey Streb Written by Audrey Streb Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: You may think the craziness in California is only a cultural phenomenon. Gruesome Newsom is looking for you. It could potentially hit your pocketbook soon unless something is done quickly to free us from the policies of Commiefornia. Arizona, particularly the […]
This 7% of the Earth’s Surface Burns More Fossel Fuel Than Anywhere Else
By Royal A. Brown III This article rightfully points out that the main polluters of environment in the world only occupy 7% of world’s surface yet contain more than 50% of world population as follows: Draw a circle with a 2,485-mile radius around the southern Chinese city of Yuxi. British geographer Alasdair Rae did just […]
Obey … or be Punished
By Karen Schoen “Science can be described as a process of discovering things. It’s a systematic and organized way of acquiring knowledge about the natural world through observation, experimentation, and analysis.” Did you know there are multiple ways to reach the same conclusion, Just like there are multiple roads to get you to the same […]