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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) called Senate Banking Committee members to reject Jared Bernstein’s bid to be the next chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). 

A coalition of 11 Democrat attorneys general asked federal regulators to crack down on natural gas-powered stoves, citing health risks.

Jared Bernstein, President Joe Biden’s nomination to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has supported the Green New Deal, higher gas taxes, a wealth tax, and tying Federal Reserve policy to the black unemployment rate. 

A world with fewer people means a changed climate and better outcomes for the remaining population – human and otherwise – of the planet, an essay in Scientific American magazine claims.

Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck proposed a plan for up to 80 per cent of industrial energy costs to be subsidised amid green agenda failures.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) used industry officials to “help” craft legislation that “would cut red tape for farmers who grow hemp,” according to Politico.

What was supposed to be a fun day at the beach ended in tragedy when a dune collapsed and buried a 17-year-old under several feet of sand at a national park in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Energy executives behind the nation’s largest offshore wind development project have reportedly sent tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign fund of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).

The Old Bridge township’s department of works deployed two workers to clear out the cooked pasta dumped along the New Jersey creek, as reported by local outlets.

ROME — Climate activists poured black liquid into the waters of Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome’s Piazza Navona on Saturday before being dragged away by police.

A coyote slipped through the doggy door of a Los Angeles home last Friday around 4 A.M.

Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) bipartisan rail safety legislation — introduced in the aftermath of the devastating train derailment and “controlled” chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio — picked up a significant endorsement on Friday.

The Biden administration’s “climate envoy,” former senator and failed presidential candidate John Kerry, said on Wednesday that China invited him to visit “in the near term” for talks on climate change.

A search and rescue for an Australian fisherman was called off after authorities found human remains in two crocodiles spotted upstream from were he was last seen.

New York State became the first state in the nation on Tuesday to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in new buildings, mandating a shift to renewable energy and electricity as the state’s power grid runs short of capacity.

Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ (R) announced on Wednesday that the Sooner State is blacklisting 13 financial institutions deemed to be boycotting the energy industry within the state.

The United Nations warned Wednesday hot weather will be dominating the months ahead, driving “higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records.”

Companies in Switzerland are trying to train children to eat insects to build up a future customer base for the Great Reset-style protein.

Plan would see thousands of farms shut down to comply with EU climate goals, and farmers banned from ever working again to get a cash payout.

President Joe Biden’s administration is making the cost of air conditioning more expensive via new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules, which are making the cost of refrigerants far more expensive as Americans head into the summer months.

Major gulf between a willingness to eat in-season fruit and veg, and drastic civilisational change like not having children, research finds.

Marine Corps veteran Curtis Sollars and his wife Connie have been living out of a suitcase in a motel for six months in Mannford, Oklahoma — a rural town along the Arkansas River Basin — because their home was destroyed in the 2019 Arkansas River Floods.

New York is set to ban gas stoves in new constructions, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) pointed out Monday, noting that the left’s desire to ban gas stoves was not a “right-wing conspiracy” after all.

Allegedly “green” biodiesel being shipped into Europe from China is likely fake, various climate orgs have discovered.

Diesel big rigs form the backbone of the U.S. commercial road transportation industry and their days are now numbered – at least in California. On Friday state regulators banned the sale of new diesel big rigs by 2036 and also

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has enacted new regulations that will require “zero emissions” trains to be introduced after 2030, focusing on a sector often seen as a “green” alternative to cars and trucks.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is asking the California Supreme Court to allow the University of California Berkeley to build student housing and homeless housing on People’s Park, a historic legacy of the 1960s.

Just a third of Londoners think Khan is doing well, but any challenger will have a struggle to unseat him in the left-leaning city.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued that “there is no issue more important” than combatting climate change, stated that we will have to move away from fossil fuels, and said that “You’ve got to

The director of the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Liz Klein, did not answer directly during a hearing on Wednesday when asked if offshore wind turbines planned for installation in the Northeast could survive Category 2 or 3 hurricanes.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week his government is “very serious” about reviving nuclear power, specifically because it might cripple Canada’s oil and natural gas industry.

The mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election and slammed President Joe Biden for never having visited the town in the wake of the February 3 train derailment disaster.

Granholm testified that she supported requiring the United States military to move to an all-electric non-vehicle fleet by 2030.

Support for Germany’s ruling green party has reportedly collapsed amid ongoing nuclear and home heating scandals plaguing the country.

The ongoing return of California’s Tulare Lake threatens to inundate the city of Corcoran and the state prison nearby, as residents fret that a nearby levee may fail to hold back the rising waters in the spring thaw.

California is about to begin the “big melt” — the thawing of trillions of gallons of frozen water, currently sitting atop the Sierra Nevada mountains and about to make its way down into the Central Valley floodplain.