Two months ago, it had been mandatory in my local grocery to use only shopping bags brought from home. Plastic bags were illegal by local ordinance. Then the virus hit. Suddenly the opposite was true. It was illegal to bring bags from home because they could spread disease. Plastic bags were mandatory. As a huge…
With gasoline prices in California eclipsing $4/gallon, Americans have taken to nervously glancing at their gas gauges. Oil prices appear to only be going in one direction (up), with dramatic disruptions such as a drone attack on Saudi refineries disrupting fuel supplies. But things may soon get far worse if the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a…
Chris White Republicans, conservatives and even some environmentalists are criticizing the final version of New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal as not yet ready for prime time. One major Democratic lawmaker even downplayed the idea’s importance going forward. The resolution calls for “10-year national mobilizations” toward a series of goals aimed at fighting global…
By Micah J. Fleck Hillary Clinton was recently asked by a supporter at a campaigning event if she would agree to not take any special interest money from fossil fuels groups – because she herself had campaigned on a pro-green energy platform. Regardless of what one may personally think about the green energy initiative, it’s…
Andrew Follett Environmentalists have warned global warming would mean more people being killed by natural disasters, but new United Nations data shows deaths from natural disasters declined by 70 percent in 2015 relative to the average number of deaths of the previous 10 years. “The U.N. reports that environmental disasters affected fewer people last year than…
Michael Bastasch President Barack Obama has just proposed a $10 tax on every barrel of oil produced in the U.S., but it was just five years ago the president warned making fuel more expensive harms poor people the most. Obama told Georgetown University students in a 2011 speech that “rising prices at the pump affect…
Michael Bastasch The White House’s global warming claims are now being contradicted by the Obama administration’s own scientists. President Barack Obama’s administration has repeated the talking point over the year that man-made global warming has increased the incidence of heavy rainfalls across the U.S., but a new study casts doubt on this assertion. National Oceanic…
Andrew Follett An environmentalist and animal rights blogger is “heartbroken” that global warming crusader Sen. Bernie Sanders is not vegan. “I love Bernie Sanders, and I’ve become personally invested in his presidential campaign. What totally destroys me, however, is that my beloved Bern-in-ator eats a ton of meat and shows no signs of going vegan,”…
Andrew Follett The United Nations global warming deal could make another five million people homeless in the world’s poorest countries, for the express purpose of setting forest land aside to slow global warming through conservation. Millions who live in and depend on forests for their livelihoods could be evicted from their wooded homes, according to new…
Ethan Barton A definitive explanation for what caused the Gold King Mine disaster may never be known if the Environmental Protection Agency is not investigated just as a private company responsible for the calamitous spill would be, according to a former enforcement agent. The EPA accepted blame for the Aug. 5, 2015, leak that poisoned…