The President’s Oil Drilling Bait-N-Switch

So President Obama says he’s for more offshore oil drilling. Does he really mean it? Would it matter if he did? Addressing the latter question...

Lead Did in Beethoven?

This weekend marks the 235th anniversary of the birth of composer Ludwig van Beethoven. But it’s his death over 178 years ago that made...

The Futility of Hybrid Cars

Could plug-in hybrid cars actually increase greenhouse gas emissions? Is energy efficiency being oversold as a greenhouse gas reduction measure? A new report from...

Ford’s Appeasement Backfires

Environmental activists took a whack this week at Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford in a full-page ad in the New York Times. Bill...

EPA Whips Up Air Pollution Scare

The air pollution scare industry is at it again—in a very timely manner to help the Environmental Protection Agency impose more dubious regulations on...

Capturing Carbon Pipe Dreams

If you enjoy the benefits of affordable and readily available electricity, a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) may spur you...

Organic Milk Industry Reveals Hypocrisy

Farm Aid benefit concerts are supposed to be about raising money to help family farmers. Last week’s Farm Aid event, however, seems to have...

Atlantic Panic Debunked

Climate alarmists gleefully surfed a 2005 Nature study that claimed greenhouse gas emissions would slow Atlantic Ocean circulation and cause a mini ice age...

Students Thrown Climate Life Preserver

Two new books on global warming for kids are out. One is designed to reduce anxiety among children; the other is designed to heighten...

New York City Bans Science

The New York City Board of Health this week banned the use of trans fats by restaurants. The decision is directly traceable back to...

Vaccination-Autism Link Unproven

Radio shock jock Don Imus is on a rampage about the vaccine preservative thimerosal allegedly causing autism. A closer look at the facts, however,...

Weak Energy Week

This has been “Energy Week” for President Bush as he barnstormed around the country in follow-up to his State of the Union message that...

Obama’s Bad Green Deal

President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to combat unemployment by creating 2.5 million public works jobs could only be loved by someone ignoring the economic and...

Enviros Target Target

Target’s ubiquitous red-and-white logo has proved prophetic. The discount retailer has become the bullseye-du-jour for a nationwide protest-attack by an environmental group that equates...

Pickens’ Natural-Gas Nonsense

“Get this one,” says billionaire T. Boone Pickens in his latest TV ad, “Iran is changing its cars to natural gas and we’re not...