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The Wall Street Journal

The Senate Cedes Its Authority on Climate

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/27/2018

Washington’s environmental establishment determined that no future agreement would be acknowledged as a treaty.

Climate

The Federalist

7 Attorney General Offices are Running Private Investigations for a Billionaire

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/18/2018

This is the second scheme we have found of donors and elected officials using nonprofits as ‘cutouts’ to provide staff, consultant, PR and legal support…

Climate

USA Today

Don’t Hype Draft Climate Studies

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/15/2017

Another week of the Trump presidency, another bout of fevered reporting on claims promoted by the career (and holdover) federal employee “resistance.” But particularly when…

Climate

The Washington Times

Obama’s Paris Climate Scheme Revelation

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 07/26/2017

The New York Times on Aug. 24, 2014, broke a major news story: “Obama pushing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty.” It’s a clumsy headline…

Climate

The Washington Times

Signaling Political Virtue via the Paris Accord

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 07/05/2017

The latest in political virtue signaling is the “We Are Still In” movement, a self-described group of “mayors, governors, college and university leaders, businesses, and…

Climate

The Daily Caller

Energy Week Is About America’s Energy Future

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/29/2017

The Trump Administration has proclaimed this week as “Energy Week” – a time to focus on pro-energy initiatives that can actually boost our economy, promote…

Climate

Washington Examiner

Send the Paris Climate Deal to Die in the Senate

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/24/2017

President Trump will attend the G7 Summit in Italy on Friday. This meeting of foreign leaders reportedly will pressure Trump to reverse his decision to…

Climate

The Wall Street Journal

We’ll Always Have Paris if U.S. Doesn’t Act

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, Myron Ebell
  • 05/16/2017

Regarding Rep. Kevin Cramer’s “Remake the Paris Deal to Promote U.S. Energy” (op-ed, May 8): The agreement contains no provision for renegotiation. Indeed, Paris’s…

Energy and Environment

USA Today

Quit Paris Climate Treaty: Opposing View

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/20/2017

President Trump’s advisers are debating recommendations on the Paris climate treaty. Reported arguments for staying in it appear to be no more than rationalizations to…

Energy and Environment

The Washington Times

Nixing the Paris climate pact

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/07/2017

Recent media reports suggest a conflict within the Trump White House over whether to keep the president’s campaign promise “to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement,”…

Energy and Environment

National Review

Who is ‘Richard Windsor’?

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/17/2016

In The Liberal War on on Transparency, published by Threshold Editions last month, I revealed the existence of a series of black, or “alias” email…

Energy

Fox News

Persecuting climate skeptics: The cover-up continues

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 06/29/2016

Seventeen attorneys general got more than they bargained for when they held a March 29, 2016 “publicity stunt” press conference to announce, with former…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Email bombshell: Attorneys General worked with Green groups to punish political opponents

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/18/2016

Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and those…

Energy and Environment

Washington Times

The global warming industry’s RICO gambit

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/29/2016

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a law adopted to fight organized crime. Yet, in recent months, a chorus has emerged calling…

Energy and Environment

The Daily Caller

A Paris Climate Conference Dispatch

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/07/2015

A hearty and collective Bonjour! from Paris, if I may speak for 10,000 functionaries of various governments, 7,000 NGO representatives (you might know them as…

Energy and Environment

Investor's Business Daily

None Dare Call It Conspiracy: Obama’s Coordinated Climate Campaign

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/22/2015

Chris Horner in Investor's Business Daily on the coordinated campaign to promote the White House's climate agenda:  Hypocrisy, thy name is Barack…

Energy and Environment

Washington Times

The Coming Climate Court

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/08/2015

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recently circulated an email breathlessly titled, “Governments on Track to Reaching Paris 2015 Universal Climate Agreement…

Energy and Environment

The Washington Examiner

EPA’s Gina McCarthy Broke the Law by Destroying Official Text Messages and Should Resign

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/05/2014

Text messages sent on a private telephone between Maureen McDonnell, wife of Bob McDonnell, and businessman Johnnie Williams are key evidence in the corruption trial…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Treasury evasions on carbon tax email mock Obama’s ‘most transparent administration ever’ claim

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/25/2013

A Washington, D.C., federal court this week ordered briefs to be filed in the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s struggle to obtain Treasury Department “carbon tax” emails.

Energy and Environment

Wall Street Journal

Letter to the Editor: Ron Binz Doesn’t Seem to Like Most Power Producers

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, William Yeatman
  • 08/22/2013

It should come as no surprise that industry insiders, lobbyists and special-interest groups support Ron Binz, President Obama's choice to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

EPA administrators invent excuses to avoid transparency

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/25/2012

The Environmental Protection Agency is the latest Obama bureaucracy exposed for embarrassing efforts to avert transparency. Its administrator, Lisa Jackson, has been using the email…

Energy

Washington Examiner

GM is alive, Patriot Coal is dead

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/15/2012

President Obama's supporters have made a bumper sticker — literally — out of the talking point "Bin Laden's Dead. General Motors is Alive." This is…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

The Collusion of the Climate Crowd

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 07/07/2012

Not long ago, the American Tradition Institute initiated a transparency campaign using federal and state freedom of information laws to learn more about how taxpayer-funded…

Climate

The American Spectator

FakeGate: Just Another Day at Team Green

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/22/2012

As I follow FakeGate's trajectory, on its way to being another instructive crash-n-burn for the global warming industry's zealots, I see a pretense…

Climate

The American Spectator

“Climate” and the Campaign

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/12/2012

So it seems that Al Gore is lamenting that "the climate crisis" is not an issue in the nascent 2012 campaign for the White House.

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Most Secretive Ever? Seeing Through ‘Transparent’ Obama’s Tricks

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/03/2011

  Recently, the Obama administration asserted a new policy of allowing the federal government to lie outright to citizens about the existence of records sought…

Law and Litigation

Breitbart

Obama Admin Hides Official IPCC Correspondence from FOIA Using Former Romney Adviser John Holdren

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/17/2011

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has learned of a UN plan recently put in place to hide official correspondence on non-governmental communication accounts, which a…

Climate

Wall Street Journal

Law of the Sea Treaty May Deliver More Than Expected

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/11/2011

  I agree with Edwin Williamson that the Law of the Sea Treaty "should not be blindly ratified" ("Law of the Sea Treaty is…

Breitbart

As Perry Picks An Energy-Environment Fight with Romney, We All Win

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/10/2011

  This Rick Perry video — which is really all about Mitt Romney — has caught some attention on the heels of a…

Climate

Breitbart

Breathless: FDA Bans Asthma Medication

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/22/2011

Remember when Barack Obama – with the dignity and off-prompter grace, evincing deep understanding of the issues and the eloquence for which he is fawned…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Solyndra’s All-Too-Predictable Collapse

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/01/2011

On Tuesday evening, ABC News reported that in his upcoming “jobs speech,” President Obama will call for more “green jobs stimulus” — though this…

Energy

Breitbart

WaPo Gets its Pinocchio on for Dishonest ‘Warming’ Attack on Perry

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/19/2011

“I do believe that the issue of global warming has been politicized. I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated…

Climate

Breitbart

Senate to Vote on EPA’s Power Grab: Does the Rule of Law Still Matter?

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/05/2011

The Senate will, one presumes, finally vote either this week or next to block EPA from imposing President Obama’s ‘other way to skin the cat’…

Energy and Environment

The American Spectator

The Truth About Krugman: More Inconvenient Than Ever

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/04/2011

Such a peach, today’s column – “The Truth, Still Inconvenient” – by Paul Krugman, economist and former consultant to the company that created the…

Energy and Environment

Breitbart

The Truth About Obama and Nuclear Power

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/18/2011

We have established that Obama’s war on coal assumed a massive, crash program of 100 new nuclear reactors — for optics purposes, keeping the cost of…

Energy

New York Times

The Problem With Mandates

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/17/2011

Why can't Senator Rand Paul and others be more like Europeans, so much better — we're told — at accepting '"encouragement" from the state? But…

Energy and Environment

PJ Media

Why Is NASA Hiding James Hansen’s Ethics Records?

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/16/2011

In this “Sunshine Week” — amid revelations that the vow of transparency was not, as George Stephanopoulos famously said about Bill Clinton’s truthiness, one of the…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

The Wages of Green Spin

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 03/07/2011

  Former Bush administration chief of the Council on Environmental Quality James Connaughton is now the government affairs head for an electric utility, Constellation…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Greens, Reds and Cheeseheads

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/26/2011

There is not much mystery in the fact that Big Labor and Big Green are both hard-left. The labor and green political coalitions are called…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Green Investment Bank Should Make Taxpayers See Red

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, William Yeatman
  • 02/17/2011

The White House and congressional Democrats are talking up a “green investment bank.” The House did the right thing by striking the notion from the continuing resolution.

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Obama, Climate Crank

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 02/14/2011

Politico’s “Morning Energy” update includes the following: TAKING IT TO THE STREETS –– The Nation is calling on the Climate Hawk-crowd to “name and shame” climate skeptics (which…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

On energy policy, Obama talks down to Americans

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/25/2011

“Now, clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what they’re selling. So tonight,…

Climate

Daily Caller

Cancun Climate Talks Fizzle, But U.S. Agrees to Expensive New Program

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/03/2011

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Jobs, Joblessness and Obamanomics

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/30/2010

While watching one of the news shows I had recorded over the weekend, a particular panelist’s comment stood out for its rare feat of actually…

Regulatory Reform

The Sacramento Bee

Never Ready for Prime Time

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, William Yeatman
  • 11/29/2010

Appeared…

Climate

The Sacramento Bee

The Oversight Begins: CEI Suing NASA Over its Own ClimateGate

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/05/2010

  On Wednesday night the Competitive Enterprise Institute, through its outside counsel Gibson Dunn, filed its brief arguing against NASA’s rather scattershot and contradictory…

The Sacramento Bee

Zoi Leaves ‘Green’ Post at Department of Energy: Avoiding Her Conflicts of Interest?

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/14/2010

Former Alliance for Climate Protection (ACP) CEO Cathy Zoi — ACP being the environmental advocacy group founded by Al Gore — has been kicked…

Energy and Environment

The Sacramento Bee

Obama’s Accidental Emissions-Reduction Plan

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/07/2010

President Obama’s imminent proposal to allow businesses to expense capital equipment through the end of next year is something my colleagues at CEI —…

Business and Government

The Sacramento Bee

What They’re Up Against

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/23/2010

Here is a website put up by one of the millions of citizen-activists crated by the Obama administration’s radical agenda, as put into practice…

Energy and Environment

The Sacramento Bee

China, Economic Growth, and “Green Jobs”

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 08/17/2010

The news about China overtaking Japan as the world’s second-largest economy is actually quite relevant to the US climate and energy policy debate, which…

Energy

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