by Sarah Zhang
The Atlantic
“As turbines proliferate across the country, understanding their effect on wildlife is more important than ever. In the early days of turbines, scientists had focused on the danger they posed to eagles and other raptors—but it turns out those big bird carcasses were simply the easiest for humans to spot,” according to The Atlantic.
“Are Wind Turbines a Danger to Wildlife? Ask the Dogs.” Read Full Article »
by Zach Budryk
The Hill
“The researchers found that 25 cities accounted for 52 percent of the sample’s emissions. All but three of the 25 — Moscow, Istanbul and Tokyo — were located in China, including major cities such as Shanghai and Beijing,” according to The Hill.
by Kimberly A. Strassel
The Wall Street Journal
“Presidents are generally entitled to personnel picks. An exception might be a nominee who ran with eco-terrorists—who collaborated with Earth First! saboteurs, known for spiking trees to halt timber sales, and who misled senators about the nature of her involvement,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
by David Wojick
CFACT
“The things it makes illegal are already illegal. The things the greens want to make illegal it does not touch. It appears that the authors have been blinded by their green zealotry. Their draft law does not say what they think it does,” according to CFACT.
“Proposed Green ecocide law does not work” Read Full Article »
by John Solomon
Just the News
“The reason? The other political appointees in the EPA office of general counsel (OGC) already have conflicts of interests that forced recusals, leaving the agency without someone to provide legal advice to the administration, according to new government memos unearthed by the citizen watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust,” say Just the News.
by Ian Morse
Science
Environmental extremists claim to like electricity-powered cars now, but the massive pollution problems their batteries will create may cause them to turn against what is now their professed transportation preference.
“Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?” Read Full Article »
by Andrew Kerr
Daily Caller
According to Daily Caller, “Stone-Manning told a local news outlet in 1993 that she could have faced conspiracy charges had she not struck an immunity deal with a federal prosecutor in return for her testimony.”
by Rachel Frazin
The Hill
“But the Trump administration argued that its decision would increase rural economic opportunity and decrease federal regulation. It also argued that it would only cause a “modest difference” in environmental impacts” according to The Hill.
by Jason Johnston
Washington Examiner
“In its assault on fossil fuels, the Biden administration’s EPA has moved rapidly to make sure that the scientific basis for EPA regulations is no longer subject to independent review and outside verification,” according to the Washington Examiner.
by Jonathan Wood and Holly Fretwell
Washington Examiner
“Expanding opportunities for states and private parties to collaborate on forest restoration, increased flexibility for the Forest Service to tailor solutions to the needs of individual forests and communities, and reductions in red tape are necessary to move federal forests from a tinderbox to resilient, productive forests,” according to the Washington Examiner.
by Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart
“A new Gallup poll reveals that water pollution is the top environmental concern for Americans — not climate change, which is the ‘crisis’ that is currently driving policy across a broad range of departments in the Biden administration,” according to Joel Pollak of Breitbart.
by Alex Stevens and Dr. David Kreutzer
The American Spectator
As Alex Stevens and Dr. David Kreutzer itemize for The American Spectator, Obama’s green jobs program of 12 years ago was a complete failure by any measure. Biden’s new program promises more of the same.
“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try ‘Green Jobs’ Again” Read Full Article »
“Now, as the poor have gotten richer and the spread of affordable technology has allowed warning systems and protective measures to be put in place, we no longer hear about disasters killing hundreds of thousands of people – simply because that horrific destruction rarely happens,” according to Human Progress.
“Natural Disasters Claim Fewer Lives Thanks to Human Progress” Read Full Article »
by Joel Kotkin
MSN News
In an extraordinary article for a conventional news outlet, Joel Kotkin points out an “eternal truth.”
“Environmentalism Is the New War on the Working Class” Read Full Article »
by Editorial Board of Issues and Insights
Issues & Insights
“The order also seems harmless enough, going by the seemingly innocent title ‘Modernizing Regulatory Review’. Except this order isn’t about modernizing regulations. It’s about unleashing the regulatory state with a ferocity never before seen in this country,” according to Issues and Insights.
“Biden’s Worst Executive Order Went Almost Entirely Unnoticed” Read Full Article »
by Abby Smith
Washington Examiner
Outgoing EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler says, ““There isn’t anything that would need to be repealed, regardless of what their position is. If they want to take a different direction, they can build off of it,” according to the Washington Examiner.
“Outgoing EPA chief says Biden can ‘build off’ Trump actions” Read Full Article »
by Rachel Sharp
Daily Mail
Bill Gates makes offer for company that flys over 1.6 million private jet flights per year while lecturing the rest of us on the supposed danger of climate change.
by Abby Smith
Washington Examiner
“The Environmental Protection Agency has released a rule setting a new threshold for the agency to meet before it regulates greenhouse gas emissions from an industry, a last-ditch effort to protect businesses from strict climate mandates,” according to the Washington Examiner.
by Andrew Wheeler
The Wall Street Journal
“. . . the work of the Environmental Protection Agency—to protect human health and the environment—shouldn’t be exempt from public scrutiny. This is why we are promulgating a rule to make the agency’s scientific processes more transparent,” according to the EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler.
“Why We’re Ending the EPA’s Reliance on Secret Science” Read Full Article »
Tohoku University
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is not due to climate change. Temperature changes are due to geothermal activity.
“Newly Discovered Greenland Plume Drives Thermal Activities in the Arctic” Read Full Article »