
CA Water Board Could Relax Drought Restrictions
California water regulators could relax statewide conservation rules even as the state enters a likely fifth year of record drought.

California water regulators could relax statewide conservation rules even as the state enters a likely fifth year of record drought.

The decades-old legislation that prevented American producers from exporting oil is officially overturned despite previous presidential threats to veto a bill to lift the oil export ban. That’s good policy. However, to get the support of “reluctant Democrats,” The Economist

The web of potential conflicts of interest associated with Jerry Brown widened with news that the California governor’s sister is a paid board member of America’s largest natural gas utility–which is leaking 500,000 metric tons of CO2 a month.

California’s record drought and the state’s inability to manage it has created shantytowns reminiscent of Great Depression-era “Hoovervilles” in once-vibrant agricultural communities across the Golden State.

Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell was among a handful of demonstrators who were arrested for blocking an upstate New York power plant construction site on Friday.

The Paris COP21 climate summit has gone better than any of us could have hoped. Which is to say so incredibly badly that the disappointed greenies have begun to turn on one another in bitterness and recrimination and Hunger-Games-like kill-or-be-killed

In his remarks to Sen. Ted Cruz’s Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness hearing concerning ongoing attempts to silence dissenters to climate change dogma, Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts—one of the greatest enemies of free speech in government today—made an analogy between the threat of communism and climate change.

The California State Water Resources Control Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to back away from a controversial plan that would have held water back from cities and farmers in order to save an endangered species of salmon.

Sometimes I wonder how the left can remain so woefully ill-informed on the subject of climate change. Then I read articles like this piece of complete Chait that one of America’s leading liberal commentators has just produced for New York magazine and all becomes clear: because ‘progressive’ journalists who write about the environment don’t do research or due diligence — only fluffy sentiment and green propaganda

Recently, the Sierra Club announced an effort “to prevent the extraction of fossil fuels right from the start,” a campaign known as “Keep it in the ground.” The plan seeks to “shut down coal mines, and crack down on hydraulic fracturing, along with stopping the transportation of fossil fuels in oil trains, pipelines and coal export terminals.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti endorsed a plan Monday that would raise water rates in the city by 4.7 percent annually over the next five years.

CARLSBAD, CA — On Monday, the door of America’s new largest seawater desalination plant opened to journalists, elected officials and the public with the lofty promise of helping to solve California’s drought distress.
Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio argued that the Paris climate accord is “going to hurt economic growth,” won’t be followed by China and India, and could lead to taxpayers sending money to China on Monday’s “Hannity” on

Both Congress and private businesses can stop President Barack Obama’s climate non-treaty that Secretary John Kerry emptily announced from Paris this week.

Casual observers sometimes treat the Black Lives Matter movement as just another series of semi-random, anti-cop protests that happen in cities from time to time.

The COP21 Paris climate talks were a total waste of time. No binding commitments have been made; all the countries in the world (apart from Britain) are free to emit as much carbon dioxide as they choose.

House Republicans from California lashed out at Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Friday for blocking drought legislation language from a larger government funding spending bill.

The UN climate change deal reached last week between nearly 200 countries is a direct attack on U.S. sovereignty. It was crafted explicitly to evade the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that treaties must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Senate to take effect.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has hailed a new global climate change agreement, signed by nearly 200 countries at a United Nations conference in Paris late last week.

After nearly two weeks of talks, President Barack Obama praised the completion of the Paris climate agreement Saturday, calling it “a turning point for the world.” The agreement, which the United States and nearly 200 other countries agreed to, commits the

A new study warns that two thirds of Tesla Model S cars will need to have their entire drivetrains replaced before they reach 60,000 miles.

Sometime round about now the negotiators at the Paris COP21 climate conference will be thrashing out the final details agreement which will make no measurable difference to “climate change” but will definitely cost all of us a great deal of money.

U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-MA, has long labored in the shadows of the Bay State statesmen who preceded him, but Tuesday the Congressional lifer managed something few solons from Massachusetts or anywhere else have ever accomplished.

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — High-stakes climate talks outside Paris are dragging into an extra day as diplomats try to overcome disagreements over how – or even whether – to share the costs of fighting climate change and shift to clean energy on a global scale.

How can you have a debate about climate, when the topic of the debate is out of bounds of polite conversation? At lunch I noted to colleagues that most (but not all) journalists seemed to disappear from the scientific session, and the zombies had wandered off to seek other brains to devour. Science seemed not to be the topic of interest, even when science was the actual topic.