Energy and Environment on Townhall

Will Forecast of Rising Gas Price Affect Presidential Race? Sat Oct 6

Elisabeth Meinecke
Crony Capitalism Gone Wild: Duke Energy CEO Backs President Obama Tue Oct 2

Tom Borelli

Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers sets a new standard for crony capitalism. While the vast majority of crony capitalists are pragmatic businessmen who pursue a partnership with President Obama for purely financial reasons, Rogers is a different breed. ... more
Get A Grip: Americans Must Demand Better Government in November and Beyond Sun Sep 30

Austin Hill

Barack Obama is beating Mitt Romney. Wait- Romney and Obama are tied in Pennsylvania. And how about all those bungled calls from the NFL fill-in refs? ... more
Hollywood Transfers Hypocrisy From Global Warming to Fracking Fri Sep 28

Katie Pavlich
Obama's Abandoned Power Plants Fri Sep 28

Ken Blackwell

If voters knew how America's economy would look after two terms of President Barack Obama's administration, Mitt Romney would win in a landslide. ... more
Letters That Need Never Be Sent Sun Sep 23

Derek Hunter

Today, we explore the question: What will they think about us 50 years from now? What will they think of how we’ve tried to govern the country? What will they think of the arguments we’re having now? ... more
Tragedy of Rising Energy Prices Fri Sep 21

Tim Phillips

There is pain associated with $4.00 a gallon gasoline. It’s not the kind you see on the news every night but it is just as tragic. ... more
"Weirding" Our Sanity and Democracy Sat Sep 15

Paul Driessen

Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the “consensus” view. Climatology is no exception. ... more
Che and the EPA Sat Sep 15

Phil Kerpen

On September 13, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent an internal email to its staff under the subject line "Hispanic Heritage Month." ... more
Obama's Sneaky, Deadly, Costly Car Tax Wed Aug 29

Michelle Malkin

While all eyes were on the Republican National Convention in Tampa and Hurricane Isaac on the Gulf Coast, the White House was quietly jacking up the price of automobiles and putting future drivers at risk. ... more
Hundreds of Coal Miners Attend Romney Rally in Ohio Mon Aug 20

Katie Pavlich
Voters Want a Champion Sun Aug 19

Salena Zito

Seventy-plus men walked out of the ground, overalls and hardhats covered in coal dust, and onto the risers of a stage built for a Mitt Romney speech. ... more
Out Of Touch President Obama Fiddles While Tombstone Burns Thu Aug 16

Ralph Benko

Welcome to the Wild West, 2012 style. The Feds to Tombstone: “If you want to fix your water line, better lawyer up and talk to President Obama.” ... more
Hungry for Fuel Thu Aug 16

Rich Tucker

Ethanol, because it’s popular in corn-growing states such as Iowa and Nebraska, was once thought to be politically untouchable. But at the end of last year lawmakers finally scrapped a tax subsidy that paid refiners to blend ethanol into gasoline. The subsidy had cost Americans some $20 billion over three decades. “Fiscal conservatives joined liberal environmentalists to kill it, with help from a diverse coalition of outside groups,” The New York Times explained. And, as politicians must have noted by now, the world didn’t end. ... more
A Clear Contrast on Wind Subsidies Sun Aug 5

Phil Kerpen

President Obama and Governor Romney are worlds apart on energy, with Obama favoring severe restrictions on fossil fuel development and a "doubling down" (Obama is fond of this gambling terminology) on failed solar and wind subsidies. ... more
Beat GSA! Sat Aug 4

Paul Driessen

If America had a “Spend Like a Drunken Sailor Award,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus would win hands-down, for blowing $12 million on biofuel for Navy ships. ... more
Palin Fires Back at Dick Cheney Wed Aug 1

Katie Pavlich
Voting for Wildlife Extermination Sat Jul 28

Paul Driessen

The latest justification for extending the industrial wind electricity production tax credit (PTC) is that we need an “all of the above” energy policy. The slogan falls flat, even when it’s expanded to “all of the above and below” – which is rarely the case with radical environmentalists and “progressive” politicians, who steadfastly oppose “any of the below” (ie, hydrocarbons). ... more
Getting What We Need from Washington Sun Jul 22

Rich Tucker

For about 15 minutes, ObamaCare had been ruled unconstitutional. At least, that’s what those watching CNN on June 28 were being told. Then, on further review, the network changed its mind. ObamaCare lived, albeit in a Supreme Court-edited form. ... more
Questions To Ask Democrats As They Abandon Barack Sun Jul 22

Austin Hill

Last week Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi instructed Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to not attend this September’s Democratic National Convention. ... more
Obama's Interior Department Still Going Rogue Fri Jul 13

Michelle Malkin

The Obama administration's loathsome cowboy, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, won't take no for an answer. He's been smacked down repeatedly by federal courts for imposing a draconian, junk science-based moratorium on the oil and gas industry. Yet, the job-killing zealot and his boss just introduced another ruinous offshore drilling ban two weeks ago. ... more
Caught in a Green Crossfire Thu Jul 12

Paul Driessen

President Obama has waged war on fossil fuels for three and a half years – and American consumers and families are caught in the green energy crossfire. ... more
Energy Wars Discourage the Poor! Mon Jul 9

Harry R. Jackson, Jr.

Summer is coming and everyone expects to pay a little more to keep the temperature in the house bearable. But do you expect to pay eight times as much as you have in previous years? Unfortunately, that is exactly what will happen to consumers in some parts of the country unless Congress stands up to the insane regulations on coal put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ... more
Notes From the Unpowered Tue Jul 3

Mona Charen

This column is being written in the midst of a power outage that has reduced many parts of the mid-Atlantic to primitive conditions. I have no right to complain. ... more
Nice Try: Obama Released Restrictive New Energy Plan Under Cover of SCOTUS, Holder Contempt Mon Jul 2

Kate Hicks
Constructive Sustainability Sun Jul 1

David Rothbard

With “dangerous manmade climate change” essentially gone as a public concern, the United Nations and its environmentalist coterie hoped to use the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference to restore momentum for their radical green agenda. ... more