Michael Bastasch The U.S. is increasingly importing crude oil from Canada, supplanting supplies we get from unstable countries and undermining reasons President Barack Obama used to justify killing the Keystone XL pipeline. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data shows Canadian oil imports are increasingly replacing imports from the Middle East and other parts of the world where…
Andrew Follett Scientists and lawmakers are placing the blame for recent wildfires on President Barack Obama’s policies, not global warming. “Our nation’s forests are sick and flammable, but they don’t have to be. Proper management would increase their resilience to wildfires.” said Julia Slingsby, Press Secretary of the House Committee on Natural Resources to the…
Richard Pollock When the Nevada Health Co-op announced in August that it would shut down at the end of the year, it was a huge setback for President Obama’s favorite national union, UNITE HERE, which endorsed him early in the 2008 campaign. UNITE HERE received $66 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to…
Michael Bastasch Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took President Barack Obama’s global warming agenda to task Tuesday night, arguing rules to shut down coal plants in the name of the climate will endanger America’s energy security. “It would be a mistake to shut down the industries in the coal fields,” Paul said during Tuesday night’s…
From our friends at Hypeline.org by Kelsey Petruzzi Ben Carson has had an intense week of media attention after a false Politico article claimed the presidential hopeful fabricated a story about his past. But that wasn’t the only story called into question. Many stories of Dr. Carson’s past are being investigated and most of them can be traced…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Washington Post editor Jackson Diehl slammed President Barack Obama’s dealings with previously shunned regimes in an opinion piece Monday, saying the hug-it-out approach he’s taking will only give them the tools they need to stay in power. “Obama’s olive branches are lifelines for authoritarian regimes,” the headline reads. He’s betting restoration of friendly…
Andrew Follett A new study suggests that President Barack Obama’s oil policy could be responsible for China escalating its rhetoric and squaring off with the U.S. in the South China Sea. The United States can now reduce the global supply of energy, hurting Beijing. This ability stems largely from America’s increased production of oil and natural gas derived from hydraulic fracturing. China, on its end, interprets…
Geoffrey Ingersoll President Barack Obama just rejected plans to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline Friday, arguing the project wouldn’t do much for the economy and would undercut U.S. efforts to fight global warming. “If we want to prevent the worst effects of climate change before it’s too late, the time to act is now.”…
Andrew Follett A civil war has erupted between environmentalists and their Democratic allies, including President Barack Obama himself, over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The full text of TPP noticeably does not directly address global warming and contains only a token mention of “clean energy.” Environmental groups say that the pact lacks environmental protections and will benefit…
Jonah Bennett President Barack Obama and Congress need to line up behind Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new Senate bill to remove marijuana from the list of Schedule I drugs, The New York Times Editorial Board argued Thursday. With the election of the Liberal Party in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to…