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Trump Promotes Energy Abundance and Decries Prophets of Doom at Davos

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Trump Promotes Energy Abundance and Decries Prophets of Doom at Davos

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 01/26/2020

President gave a powerful speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which he challenged the politically correct platitudes and energy-rationing agenda that dominate discussion…

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House Republican Leadership Prepares Package of Climate Bills 

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House Republican Leadership Prepares Package of Climate Bills 

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 01/25/2020

Axios ran an exclusive interview with House Republican leaders planning a package of legislation to address climate change. According to the Axios story, the package will include…

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Trump Administration Rewrites the Rules for the National Environmental Policy Act

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Trump Administration Rewrites the Rules for the National Environmental Policy Act

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 01/13/2020

President Trump on January 9 rolled out new rules to implement the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 (NEPA). NEPA was enacted in 1970, and…

Energy and Environment

UN Climate Conference in Madrid Fails to Set Rules for Carbon Trading Market   

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UN Climate Conference in Madrid Fails to Set Rules for Carbon Trading Market   

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 12/20/2019

The twenty-fifth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-25) was supposed to wrap up one issue remaining from last…

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Free-Market Coalition Opposes Transportation and Climate Initiative

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Free-Market Coalition Opposes Transportation and Climate Initiative

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 12/20/2019

Eleven Northeast states plus the District of Columbia on December 17th released a draft memorandum of understanding this week on how to implement their Transportation and…

Automobiles and Roads

White House Blocks Most Green Energy Tax Credits in Final Spending Bill

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White House Blocks Most Green Energy Tax Credits in Final Spending Bill

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 12/20/2019

The spending packages to fund the federal government through the end of the 2020 fiscal year ending on October 1st, which were passed by the…

Banking and Finance

Congress Racing To Extend and Expand Electric Vehicle, Wind, and Solar Tax Credits

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Congress Racing To Extend and Expand Electric Vehicle, Wind, and Solar Tax Credits

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 12/13/2019

It would be comforting to think that the House’s impeachment proceedings have so poisoned relations between Democrats and Republicans that the Congress won’t be able…

Banking and Finance

Trump Administration Begins Withdrawal from Paris Climate Treaty

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Trump Administration Begins Withdrawal from Paris Climate Treaty

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 11/08/2019

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on November 4th that, “Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Per the terms of…

Climate

California Utility Cuts Power to Avoid Fires Caused by Downed Power Lines   

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California Utility Cuts Power to Avoid Fires Caused by Downed Power Lines   

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 10/11/2019

Pacific Gas and Electric has intentionally turned off electricity to up to two million people in parts of northern California for hours and days at…

Energy

President Trump Signs Executive Orders to Improve Use of Guidance Documents

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President Trump Signs Executive Orders to Improve Use of Guidance Documents

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 10/11/2019

President Donald J. Trump on October 9th signed two executive orders (EOs) intended to improve and limit the use of guidance documents. This is good,…

Regulatory Reform

Industry and Nonprofit Groups Urge Senate Support for ‘Clean’ Energy and Climate Bills

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Industry and Nonprofit Groups Urge Senate Support for ‘Clean’ Energy and Climate Bills

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 10/05/2019

A number of industry trade associations plus some non-profit groups sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on…

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Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

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Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

  • By: Myron Ebell, Steven J. Milloy
  • 09/18/2019

Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due…

Climate

Washington Post Uses Dubious Data on ‘Extreme’ Climate Change

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Washington Post Uses Dubious Data on ‘Extreme’ Climate Change

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 08/24/2019

The Washington Post ran a long, complicated story by four reporters on August 14th headlined “Extreme climate change is here.”…

Energy and Environment

President Trump Promotes Administration’s Environmental Accomplishments   

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President Trump Promotes Administration’s Environmental Accomplishments   

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 07/12/2019

On July 8th President Trump gave a speech on his administration’s environmental accomplishments. I was lucky to be one of a couple hundred people invited to…

Energy and Environment

EPA Releases Final Rule to Replace ‘Clean Power’ Plan

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EPA Releases Final Rule to Replace ‘Clean Power’ Plan

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 06/24/2019

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler on June 19th signed the final rule to replace the so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP). The new rule to regulate greenhouse gas…

Climate

Climate Issues Decide Australian Election  

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Climate Issues Decide Australian Election  

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/24/2019

Australian voters stunned the pollsters and the experts in the general election on May 18th by returning the ruling coalition of conservative parties to office. Votes are…

Climate

CEI Petitions EPA to Correct 2009 Endangerment Finding

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CEI Petitions EPA to Correct 2009 Endangerment Finding

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/17/2019

The Competitive Enterprise Institute on May 13th filed a request for correction under the Information Quality Act (IQA) that asks the Environmental Protection Agency to stop using or…

Climate

House Passes Bill to Keep U.S. in Paris Climate Treaty

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House Passes Bill to Keep U.S. in Paris Climate Treaty

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/03/2019

The House of Representatives on May 2 passed a bill that would prevent President Donald Trump from withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate treaty. Eighteen…

Climate

New York City Enacts Its Own Green New Deal

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New York City Enacts Its Own Green New Deal

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 04/26/2019

New York City’s council passed the Climate Mobilization Act, a set of six bills, by a 45 to 2 vote on 18th April. Mayor Bill de Blasio signed…

Climate

White House Moves to Strengthen Information Quality Act

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White House Moves to Strengthen Information Quality Act

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 04/26/2019

The White House Office of Management and Budget on April 24th sent a memo to heads of departments and agencies updating guidelines for implementing the Information Quality…

Regulatory Reform

Proposed Climate Science Review Continues to Attract Support and Opposition

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Proposed Climate Science Review Continues to Attract Support and Opposition

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 04/12/2019

The proposal by Dr. William Happer of the White House’s National Security Council staff to create an independent panel of experts to do a critical…

Climate

Senate Votes Down Green New Deal, Alternatives Proliferate 

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Senate Votes Down Green New Deal, Alternatives Proliferate 

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 03/29/2019

The Senate voted on March 26th on a variant of the Green New Deal resolution. No Senators voted yes, 57 voted no, and 43 voted present.  The…

Climate

Senate Democratic Sponsors of Green New Deal Heroically Plan to Vote ‘Present’

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Senate Democratic Sponsors of Green New Deal Heroically Plan to Vote ‘Present’

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 03/22/2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has scheduled a floor vote on the Green New Deal resolution for the week of March 24th. Democrats were caught…

Climate

McCarthy Picks Republicans for Select Committee on Climate Crisis

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McCarthy Picks Republicans for Select Committee on Climate Crisis

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 03/01/2019

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on February 28th announced the names of the Republicans he has chosen to serve on the Select Committee on the Climate…

Climate

White House to Create President’s Commission on National Climate Security

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White House to Create President’s Commission on National Climate Security

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/23/2019

The Washington Post obtained leaked Trump administration documents this week that reveal that the White House is preparing an executive order to create a President’s…

Climate

Sen. McConnell Calls for Senate Vote on Green New Deal, Markey Calls ‘Sabotage’

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Sen. McConnell Calls for Senate Vote on Green New Deal, Markey Calls ‘Sabotage’

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/16/2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on February 12th that he planned to schedule a vote on the Green New Deal Resolution in the near future using Rule…

Climate

House Republican Committee Leaders Begin Caving on Climate Science and Policies

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House Republican Committee Leaders Begin Caving on Climate Science and Policies

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/15/2019

Reps. Greg Walden (R-OR) and Frank Lucas (R-OK), the ranking Republican members of the two committees with the most jurisdiction over climate science and energy-rationing…

Climate

Green New Deal Launched with Support from Democratic Presidential Candidates

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Green New Deal Launched with Support from Democratic Presidential Candidates

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 02/11/2019

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) held a press conference outside the Capitol building on February 7th to introduce their House and Senate resolutions for a…

Climate

Green New Deal: 626 Groups Send Congress a Back-to-Dark Ages Manifesto

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Green New Deal: 626 Groups Send Congress a Back-to-Dark Ages Manifesto

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 01/11/2019

Six-hundred twenty-six organizations, some of them major environmental groups, sent a letter to Members of the House of Representatives on January 10th that details their demands for…

Climate

UN Special Report: Turning the World’s Energy Economy upside down Is a Good Idea

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UN Special Report: Turning the World’s Energy Economy upside down Is a Good Idea

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 10/16/2018

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on October 6th released a “Special Report (SR15) on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees C.”  The…

Climate

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