We all care about the quality of the air we breathe, but can we trust the government to correctly assess the science our health depends upon? At the moment, the answer is no, but reform is underway. Last week, in a rare occurrence, the EPA’s Clean Air Advisory Committee (CASAC) voted 4 to 2 against tightening...
When President Trump spoke before a group of energy workers in Louisiana recently, he pointed out the role energy plays in our robust economy. “In Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and states all across our land, workers like you are lighting up our homes, powering our factories, and reducing energy costs...
Is anyone else saturated by the media’s coverage of Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed energy revolution? Perhaps more appropriately called an energy experiment, the heralded Green New Deal assumes that the renewable energy generated by wind turbines and solar panels can completely replace fossil fuels by 2030. Yet the viability of a policy to power...
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey are championing legislation known as the Green New Deal (GND). Scratch the surface a little and this now-vague plan can be seen as a sweeping, exorbitant, infeasible and coercive scheme. The draft plan may be introduced as legislation this week, but the details remain uncertain. The original draft...
Good news, everyone: More than a billion human beings no longer suffer the miseries of “extreme poverty” — a level below sustenance for necessities such as food and shelter. “Poverty around the world is plummeting; half the world is now middle class; and illiteracy, disease and deadly violence are receding,” according to Wall Street Journal...
The most predictable thing about the climate these days is the sensationalism we see in the headlines. “The weather of Washington’s future: Hellish heat and high water,” The Washington Post wrote after the National Climate Assessment was released. “New U.S. climate assessment forecasts dire effects on economy, health,” said NPR. And not to be outdone,...
The warnings are dire; a new World Health Organization report says that more than one in four deaths of children under 5 is due to environmental risk – mostly air pollution. “The evidence is clear: air pollution has a devastating impact on children’s health,” the report says. “…Globally, 93 percent of all children live in...
The shale revolution in the Permian Basin of far west Texas is breaking record after record for oil and gas output. The Permian’s energy breakthrough in shale is right now transforming global energy markets and fueling economic growth in the United States. Perhaps even more importantly, it’s beginning to lessen the dependence of not just...
The story of the shale revolution is not just the scuttled claims that we’re running out of energy resources. It is also an important lesson about American exceptionalism and the conditions that made this breakthrough possible. The shale revolution likely could not have emerged and resiliently endured in any country other than the U.S. The...
Testimony before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Special Water Districts Committee on HB 3028 continued by Kathleen Hartnett White
Kathleen Hartnett White testimony before the Senate Agriculture, Water, and Rural Affairs Committee on SB 225
"Permian oil is leaving Texas ports in route to our allies in Europe now dependent on oil and natural gas from Russia and the Middle East."