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• By: Myron Ebell
• 11/17/2006

The Los Angeles Times today has a story by Robert Lee Hotz that reports on a new scientific article reviewing what’s going on with…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/17/2006

There’s a new study on the Arctic and global warming released by NOAA, and the results are, well, mixed. The Los Angeles Times reports:…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/16/2006

Sen. Inhofe continues telling it like it is on the subject of climate change, this time in Nairobi at the (take a deep breath)…

Energy and Environment

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/16/2006

The lede of this Washington Post article [“Loudoun Excluded From Utility Route“] is jarring to me: Dominion Virginia Power has excluded most of Loudoun…

Energy and Environment

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/15/2006

Some may think that; we couldn’t possibly comment.

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 11/15/2006

Today’s Washington Post carries a full-page ad by BP boasting that the company, which calls itself “beyond petroleum,” is “investing up to $8 billion over…

Energy and Environment

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/15/2006

Tony Blair is resisting demands from the environmental pressure groups and, err, the Conservative Party to impose annual targets on greenhouse gas emissions for the…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/10/2006

Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson has a bracing take on the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change today: [Based on the report’s…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/10/2006

Barbara Boxer is slated to replace James Inhofe as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, and she’s got big plans for…

Energy and Environment

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/09/2006

One of the least mentioned election day stories is that California – yes, California – rejected a punitive tax on oil production that would have…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/08/2006

Perhaps the most amusing moment of last night’s election coverage came from Chris Matthews, while he was interviewing congressional has-been Dick Gephardt. Let’s go…

Energy and Environment

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/07/2006

For all the supposed consensus on global warming, every time the Kyoto parties get together, there are disagreement s about what to do. The latest…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/07/2006

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is legendary for telling it like he sees it, rhetorical propriety be damned. He’s now reacting to the Stern report…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/07/2006

The National Climatic Data Center reports that in October, “All regions [were] near to or below normal temperature (first time since February 2003…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/02/2006

The current issue of New Scientist magazine has a truly strange article on the impending release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/02/2006

Our friend Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, has an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal (subscription only) today taking on…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/01/2006

The New York Sun has an editorial on the Stern review on the economics of global warming which includes a mention of our very…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/31/2006

If you haven’t read it already, treat yourself to a radically reasonable op-ed by Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT on why global warming is…

Energy and Environment

• By: Jody Clarke
• 10/30/2006

When a journalist publicly declares he doesn’t believe in balance on a particular issue, you know things are really bad. When I was a journalist,…

Energy and Environment

• By: Iain Murray
• 10/30/2006

Or in a hundred year’s time, for that matter. Today’s Stern Review from the British government has been marketed as saying global warming means…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/30/2006

Judith Burns of Dow Jones’ MarketWatch reports on the latest shareholder activism from our friends Steve Milloy and Tom Borelli over at the…

Energy and Environment

• By: Iain Murray
• 10/30/2006

George Monbiot — the green activist whose perceived wackiness inspired the label “Moonbat” — is at it again. This time he says sport is…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/30/2006

The international media is in a tizz this morning (afternoon in the UK) over the release of the Stern Review on the Economics…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/30/2006

According to The Wall Street Journal this morning, Al Gore and his take on global warming have become all the rage in…Belgium. It’s seems…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/28/2006

We’ve known that Marc Morano was a brave man for some time, but he proved it again last night at the Society of Environmental Journalists’…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/27/2006

As CEI’s presence at the 16th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists continues, I’ve noticed that the event’s blogosphere presence has grown…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/27/2006

Energy companies, both new and old, are crowded into the Society of Environmental Journalists conference here in Burlington, Vermont, all playing up the environmental profile…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/27/2006

The Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this week is in full swing, with panels and exhibits on everything from sustainable forestry to avian flu.

Energy and Environment

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/25/2006

Statist environmentalists’ stern condemnation of what they consider spendthrift consumption is nothing new in the West—but developing countries unaccustomed to such hectoring might be taken…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/25/2006

I’m going to be flying to Vermont tomorrow, and some of my colleagues are also taking airline trips soon, including a few to far off…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/25/2006

In a shocking development, we find out this morning that environmentally fixated, hybrid-loving celebrities don’t necessarily live the green dream that they preach…

Energy and Environment

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 10/24/2006

In a changing world, it seems that at least one thing is certain: If current trends continue, environmentalist predictions about the future will continue to…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/19/2006

We’ve just heard that our friend Marc Morano will be one of the panelists at the upcoming Society of Environmental Journalists conference in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/19/2006

Tokyo rail users will now be expected to not only pay for their own tickets, but also to power the machines that sell them.

Energy and Environment

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/18/2006

Marc Morano over at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is drawing our attention today to an op-ed in L’Express last month…

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