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Another Obama-Funded Energy Firm Makes Its Final Emission

Michigan’s Alpena Biorefinery announced that it is taking a “sabbatical,” after drinking $22 million of taxpayers’ stimulus cash and after consuming unknown amounts of additional and indirect taxpayer funding—all just to show it could convert wood chips into pure alcohol.

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Study Counts 3 Trillion Trees on Earth

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 3 trillion trees now grow on Earth, seven times more than scientists previously thought. But it’s also trillions fewer than there used to be, a new study concludes.

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Bear’s And Barack’s Great Arctic Distraction

President Obama has been joking from the White House’s Instagram account about his encounter in the Alaskan wilderness with survivalist Bear Grylls. You’ll never guess what he said. “Glad this was the only Bear I met in the park.” Yes.

U.S. President Barack Obama walks towards the Marine One prior to his departure from the White House August 31, 2015 in Washington, DC. President Obama is travelling to Anchorage, Alaska to address the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER) Conference. (Photo by

What’s Really Melting: Obama’s Alaskan Lies

The hike is supposed to be the high point of this week’s trip to Alaska, undertaken for the purpose of dramatizing global warming. The media pitch is that Exit Glacier has been rapidly retreating for decades because of global warming. Sadly for Obama’s play acting, though, the National Park Service previously reported that Exit Glacier has been exiting since at least the early 1800s — before the Industrial Revolution even got underway.

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Obama Makes Waves by Renaming Mount McKinley

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shrinking glaciers, Arctic temperatures and a mix of messy energy politics await President Barack Obama on his historic trip to Alaska. Even before he departed, Obama was making waves with a decision to rename Alaska’s famed Mount McKinley despite a backlash from Ohio politicians.

President Barack Obama arrives at Andrews Air Force Base on August 27, 2015 in Maryland. Obama traveled to New Orleans to survey progress 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read

Obama Cites Climate Change, Predicts Doom

During his visit to New Orleans to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Obama warned that more extreme weather events would continue to happen if Americans failed to act. “[W]e’re going to see more extreme weather events as the result of climate change — deeper droughts, deadlier wildfires, stronger storms,” he said during his speech. He is determined to make climate change one of the highlights of his second term, especially after announcing his expansive carbon emissions rules that would dramatically raise the cost of electricity.

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Los Angeles Slashes Water Use

In July, Los Angeles residents reduced their water use by 21%, meeting the standard that state regulators implemented and avoiding fines and penalties imposed by the state.