Environment

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...

In a surprising turn in her career as a world-renowned climate advocate, Greta Thunberg has joined a protest calling for the demolition of wind turbines in Norway. Lying at the heart of the matter is the claim that the two wind farms in question were built directly on reindeer grazing lands used by the country's Indigenous Sámi people. Thunberg,...

Joe Biden has gone all-in to stop climate change. On his first day in office, he shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline to reduce our production of fossil fuels which sent gas prices through the roof. He then signed an agreement to bring the United States back into the Paris Climate Accords which are heavily tilted against wealthy countries, and...

After investing billions of dollars into the green-energy transition, many of the major players in the energy sector are now shifting their priorities. The global energy shortages of 2022 seem to have woken much of the world up to just how impractical renewable energy can be.

This many whale deaths in this short a time span is "unprecedented" and notes that preconstruction for the Empire Wind project has led to substantially "more ships and vessels in the area, which increase potential ship strikes, and sonar can deafen or disorient whales, leading them into the path of oncoming vessels."