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Issues Forum: Environment & Energy

Environment & Energy

Environment & Energy

The Case For Liberating Oil Exports

September 2, 2015

Imagine this: US iron miners, thanks to revolutionary technology that can extract iron from once-useless rock, double their production in 5 years, creating hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth, contributing to steel production for billions of people around the world, and making America a world leader in iron once again. The production explosion is […]

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Environment & Energy

Environment & Energy

Hurricanes, Katrina, and Facts

August 31, 2015

It was as predictable as sunrise that climate advocates would use the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina for propaganda purposes. And true to form, they did, including President Obama, even though he was asked by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal not to do so. Climate advocates use sea surface temperature increases to claim that hurricane activity […]

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Environment & Energy

Environment & Energy

5 questions every presidential candidate should answer: Global warming and energy policy edition

July 30, 2015

On May 24, 2015, Pope Francis issued his second encyclical, “On care for our common home,” addressing environmental issues and climate change. He called for a “revolution” in the international approach and argued that the situation is “now reaching a breaking point.” The United Nations for its part has declared, “Climate change is not a […]

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Environment & Energy

Environment & Energy

The Real Clinton Climate Plan

July 30, 2015

Hillary Clinton has a real climate change plan and a fake climate change plan. She released the fake plan earlier this week to predictably rapturous media applause for its “far-reaching” and “comprehensive” agenda. It features “ambitious” goals to increase renewable energy use in the United States and outlines other platform planks still to come on […]

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Environment & Energy

Environment & Energy

Hillary’s Solar Scheme Is Central Planning at its Worst

July 28, 2015

n a YouTube video released over the weekend, the leading Democratic candidate for president, Hillary Clinton, announced that “on day one as president,” she would set “two ambitious national goals that will test our capacities.” Said Clinton, “First, I will ensure we hit a target of having more than half a billion solar panels installed across the country […]

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