Written by Institute for Energy Research

While the Obama Administration is lollygagging regarding opening federal lands to oil and gas development, its Interior Department has been active in approving renewable projects on federal lands. As part of President Obama’s alleged “all-of-the-above” energy strategy, the U.S. Interior Department ... Read more: Obama Administration Fast Tracks Renewables, Slows Oil and Gas
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Written by Alan Caruba

What is it with the “warmists”, Al Gore and his clones who keep insisting the Earth is warming, that too much carbon dioxide (CO2) will be the death of us, and that we have to immediately stop burning “fossil fuels” if we are to save the planet? They are the most relentless liars on the face of the ...
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Written by David R. Legates

Rational thought underlies conservative Christian views on climate change and the environment Read more: Using Earth’s Blessings to Better Mankind and Planet
Although he has rarely been willing to discuss or debate energy or environmental issues with those who do not share his views, environmentalist David Suzuki frequently challenges them on other ...
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Written by Marita Noon

And subsidy-dependent wind energy supporters are running scared Read more: The Wheels are Coming Off the Wind Energy Gravy Train
The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the last twenty years is coming to an end, and those promoting the industry are panicking. Perhaps this current wave ...
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Written by IER

After oil prices reached new highs in 2008, the Bush administration and Congress moved to open almost all of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas exploration and development. But in November 2011, the Obama administration released an offshore drilling plan that closes much of the offshore ...
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Written by Right Side News

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) just released another study on a Clean Energy Standard proposed by Senator Bingaman,[i] the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The result is the same as before—a “Clean Energy Standard” drives up the cost of electricity.[ii]A ... Read more: EIA Releases Study on Proposed Clean Air Standard
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Written by Paul Driessen

– and protect environmental values, endangered species, jobs and human welfare
Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough.
Informed and inspired by a loosebut ...
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Written by Senator Inhofe

Inhofe Floor Speech Read more: President Obama's War on Domestic Energy Production: "Crucify Them"
Mr. President, I rise today to address several questionable actions recently taken by the Obama Environmental Protection Agency to stop domestic energy production - particularly regarding hydraulic fracturing - and my intention is to explain to America what's really going on over ...
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Written by John C.K. Daly
The process of hydraulic fracturing is a mining technique which uses injected fluid to propagate fractures in a rock layer to release hydrocarbon deposits that would otherwise be uncommercial. Developed in the U.S. and first used in 1947 for stimulating of oil and natural gas wells, the use of ... Read more: UK Government: Fracking Causes Earthquakes, but It's Worth the Risk
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