Environment

Since 2020, the Rocky Mountain Institute has been hyping bogus claims about the alleged danger of natural gas stoves.  read more »

Scientific American blames the Los Angeles fires on climate change. A Yale University publication agrees.  read more »

Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate.  read more »

Our planet has numerous resources, but they are NOT unlimited resources. What’s the future of humanity 100 to 500 years from now, after humans have extracted the oil, coal, lithium, and cobalt resources from the 4.5-billion-year-old Earth?  read more »

In 2005, Scientific American published an article saying that the hockey stick graph published a few years earlier by Michael Mann, an academic who now works at the University of Pennsylvania  read more »

Los Angeles authorities’ poor preparation for and lamentable response to the wildfires now devastating the city capture a broader problem – namely, the failure of governance  read more »

Somewhere, Chief James Bigheart must be doing a victory dance.

On Wednesday, the Osage Nation prevailed again in federal court in Tulsa, winning a decisive ruling in the longest-running legal battle over wind energy in American history.  read more »

The International Energy Agency has been consistent — and consistently wrong — about global coal demand.

In 2015, the Paris-based agency declared, "The golden age of coal in China seems to be over." That year, it predicted global coal demand would fall to 5.5 billion tons by 2020.  read more »

It is the global climate-change conference that no one cares about. The latest United Nations (UN) ‘conference of the parties’, otherwise known as COP29, is currently being hosted in oil-rich, authoritarian Azerbaijan.  read more »

Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental  read more »