Environment

"Save the Whales" is now "sacrifice the whales" to East Coast wind turbines, oil & gas drilling, and reporter lackeys for the marine-industrial complex. Sound familiar? More "unintended consequences" from short term government thinking compounded by regulatory capture.

How, for example, can we conceive of an obligatory decrease in economic activity without subjecting any technological innovation to control by an "administrative agency"? The dream EU of environmentalists starts to look like a version of Atlas Shrugged: a dystopian country in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws,...

When our politicians start claiming that an entirely natural cycle that has been going on for centuries is a consequence of irresponsible human behavior, it's time to throw the science book at them. It's not climate change — it's climate sameness. The tides rise and fall, it's cold in the winter and warm in the summer, and lightning strikes dry...

The entire world appears enthralled with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its periodic edicts. The pretension is that this is a "scientific" organization employing scientific methodology to forecast risks of global warming. It isn't.

The "energy transition" continues to receive thunderous applause from all the usual Beltway suspects, an exercise in groupthink fantasy amazing to behold. For those with actual lives to live and thus uninterested in silliness: The "energy transition" is a massive shift, wholly artificial and politicized, from conventional energy inexpensive (Table...

Over the last several decades, "Beijing has held an iron grip on the world's supply chain for rare earth elements" required for green energy technology. "Currently, [China] controls nearly 60 percent of rare earth mining operations, more than 85 percent of processing capacity and more than 90 percent of permanent magnet production, according to the...

Norfolk Southern Railways devoted approximately 5 percent of its 2021 expenditures to ESG climate activism, shorting essential programs like rail safety, a review of Norfolk Southern documents reveals. The revelations that Norfolk Southern prioritized ESG climate activism over rail safety occur at the same time Norfolk Southern refuses to reimburse...