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Readers of Skeptic magazine should exercise skepticism themselves regarding the magazine’s biased and flawed reporting on global warming, a well-known global warming expert observes in a newly published paper by the Science and Public Policy Institute. “Be skeptical, be very skeptical,” Lord Christopher Monckton, Viscount of Brenchly ...

The American Bird Conservancy has filed suit in federal court accusing the U.S. government of “flagrantly violating” the Freedom of Information Act by failing to appropriately respond to its FOIA requests for correspondence between the federal government and wind power companies. The Conservancy is seeking information about bird ...

“We’ll invest $15 billion a year over the next decade in renewable energy, creating five million new green jobs that pay well, can’t be outsourced, and help end our dependence on foreign oil,” candidate Barack Obama pledged in a November 1, 2008 radio address. Three years and eight months later, as unemployment has exceeded ...

Private donors are stepping up to help California keep its state parks open, allowing state officials to forego plans to close 70 of California's 278 state parks. Low Attendance, Revenues The Parks and Recreation Department had targeted the 70 state parks for closure due to low attendance and low revenues. Parks and Recreation ...

In this news story from Greenwire, Nick Juliano of the Energy and Evironment Daily reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gave a speech in Las Vegas detailing his hopes to tax carbon emissions to combat climate change. ...

An abundance of domestic energy will enable the United States to cut in half its reliance on oil from the Middle East by the end of the decade, and could end any reliance at all by 2035, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). New Technologies Boost Outlook America’s bright energy outlook is due to ...

A coalition of conservative and free-market policy groups has sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson urging her to defer to Alaska state officials regarding a proposed mining operation on state land. The proposed mine promises to be one of the most lucrative in the world, and the Pebble ...

Environmental activists delayed the launch of an environmentally friendly oil shale project in southeastern Utah’s Unita Valley, pending the outcome of more study of the project’s expected effect on groundwater near the site. State Approved Project Earlier this year the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining awarded an oil shale ...

In this story for Think Progress, Stephen Lacey reports on a speech by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) who wants to pass a carbon emissions tax. The speech includes a lengthy section of his speech related to climate change and global warming. ...

Carbon taxes have regained traction with several prominent Republican lawmakers and political leaders publicly voicing support for a “revenue-neutral” carbon tax in exchange for tax cuts on capital or investments. Most notably, a new political interest campaign led by former Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC), the Energy & Enterprise ...

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu has introduced legislation that would require building owners who are required to have water drinking fountains to provide bottled water refill stations as well. Reducing Use of Plastic The legislation offered June 26 is designed to enable people to keep using, or recycling ...

Review of Silent Spring at 50: Reflections on an Environmental Classic , by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss (PERC, 2012), 32 pages I have been writing about Rachel Carson’s infamous book Silent Spring for much of the 50 years since its publication. With ten years of environmental education behind me when the book was ...