Energy & Environment

Black Lives Matter and the Green Movement are Incompatible

Recent fatal encounters between African Americans and police officers have focused new attention on the recurring issue of institutional racism affecting Black communities. Among the inequalities that have been brought into question, “environmental injustice” has been at the forefront. It has compelled environmental advocacy groups to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement; however,...

July 14, 2020

Energy & Environment

What to expect when you’re expecting the climate apocalypse

It was an evening like any other. While relaxing on the couch with my husband, feeling my 33-week-old son bumping around in my belly, I absent-mindedly tapped on a new message in my inbox and read “Climate Change Can Pose Pregnancy Risks, Study Finds.” As if pregnancy isn’t already fraught with enough anxiety. Despite the...

July 3, 2020

Energy & Environment

Church Climate Initiatives Fly In The Face Of The Gospel

Blessed are the virtue signalers, for they shall inherit political favor. The Methodist Church’s British financial arm recently announced it had sold its shares in three major oil producers, worth over £17 million, and is considering divesting itself of additional fossil fuel holdings. While progressive Christians and the secular Left hail the slowly growing coalition of...

July 1, 2020

Energy & Environment

Surviving the Coronavirus? Thank Fossil Fuels.

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States, some electric companies may ask high-skilled workers to temporarily live on-site. Facing the real prospect of staffing shortages, power plants desperately need to keep their employees healthy and keep the lights on for the rest of the country. The alternative — losing access to the electricity we...

April 1, 2020

Energy & Environment

Fact-free fearmongering: Don’t believe new trumped-up fossil fuel ‘death’ statistics

A recent study in the Cardiovascular Research journal trumpeted a staggering claim: According to new calculations, more than 3.6 million people died in 2015 as a result of air pollution from fossil fuels. The problem? It’s blatantly untrue. The scientists and media outlets perpetuating this 3.6 million myth aren’t the first to fall for the anti-fossil fuel movement’s statistical shell...

March 22, 2020

Energy & Environment

A Better Word of the Year for 2019: Energy Poverty

It’s that time of year. As New Year’s Eve approaches, we look back on 2019 seeking nuggets of wisdom from twelve more months of the human experience. Unfortunately, the Word of the Year selections from two top dictionaries reveal just how misplaced this year’s priorities were. The Oxford English Dictionary selected “climate crisis” as the...

December 20, 2019

Energy & Environment

The Debilitating Pessimism Of Climate Change Alarmists

“Save the Planet, Eat the Children,” reads a T-shirt at a congresswoman’s townhall. Meanwhile, a teenager skipping school and in obvious emotional distress makes the Nobel Peace Prize shortlist for berating world leaders about a supposedly looming mass extinction. The most privileged generation in human history — enjoying the longest, healthiest, wealthiest, and most comfortable...

October 8, 2019

Energy & Environment

Expensive climate change programs hurt the poor most

A new study confirms what conservatives have long suspected: Expensive climate change programs, such as the Green New Deal, would hurt the poor the most. Researchers from the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change estimate that if every country participating in the Paris climate accord actually fulfilled its greenhouse gas emission reduction pledges, more than 3 million...

August 13, 2019

Energy & Environment

Battling climate change does not empower women around the world — electricity does

When the much-ballyhooed Green New Deal came before the Senate — shortly before its anticlimactic demise — Democratic Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono waxed poetic about climate change as an agent of women’s oppression. “While the negative impacts of climate change often impact women the most, they too often don’t have a seat at the table when it comes...

May 19, 2019

Energy & Environment

Is climate change racist?

According to some politicians, climate change hurts minorities the most. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez writes in her Green New Deal that “climate change, pollution, and environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices.” She’s got it backward. In reality, expensive and regressive policies that drive up the cost of energy — and...

May 14, 2019