Duggan Flanakin: Biography and Latest Articles

Biography

Duggan Flanakin is director of policy research for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and a former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Arkansas Public Policy Foundation. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Regent University, for many years published a popular trade newsletter on environmental regulation in Texas, and previously was the lead science editor for the now-defunct U.S. Bureau of Mines.

Articles

Biden and Boris: The Bad News Bears

By Duggan Flanakin

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is comfortable working with Joe Biden on climate change. Johnson recently praised Biden’s ...

October 01, 2021

Afghanistan Asunder - The Afghan Hounds Renew Their War on Women

By Duggan Flanakin

President Joe Biden is about to do what President Donald Trump had proposed to do a year earlier – end ...

July 19, 2021

New Opportunities for a Rural American Renaissance

By Duggan Flanakin

Many argue rural America has been in steady decline for decades. It was particularly hard hit by the “Great Recession ...

July 03, 2021

Bankers, Insurers and Activists Assault Our Freedoms

By Duggan Flanakin

Oil giant ExxonMobil’s 12-member board of directors reportedly has two new members who are climate activists backed by investor “Engine ...

June 10, 2021

A Viable Alternative to Chinese Minerals Hegemony

By Duggan Flanakin

Prompted by a worldwide chip shortage already impacting automobile production, President Biden in February signed an executive order directing a ...

May 26, 2021

When 'A Little Corruption' in Mexico Goes Too Far

By Duggan Flanakin

“Corruption is not a disagreeable characteristic of the Mexican political system,” Gabriel Zaid observed in La economia presidencial. “It is ...

May 06, 2021

China’s Strange Endorsement of ‘Net Zero’

By Duggan Flanakin

You have to hand it to Xi Jinping. The Chinese “president for life” schmoozed United Nations royalty last September with ...

April 22, 2021

Africans Deflect Biden’s Demand to End Fossil Fuel Use

By Duggan Flanakin

As the merger of climate change and COVID panic materializes before us, “global leaders” have found developing world voices to ...

April 16, 2021

India Ignores Media Preaching on ‘Net Zero Carbon’

By Duggan Flanakin

India is just one of an increasing number of “developing” nation which have recognized that the mad rush toward a ...

April 09, 2021

EPA’s Totalitarian Frontal Assault on America

By Duggan Flanakin

Biden-Harris Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan is clearly on a mission. He has “bold aspirations, and a long to-do ...

April 01, 2021

The Myth And Phony Math of ‘Green’ Jobs

By Duggan Flanakin

“Fool me once,” Stephen King wrote, “shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame ...

February 20, 2021

Rare Earths First? Or Last?

By Duggan Flanakin

As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take the reins of government and launch their program to “transition” America away from ...

January 19, 2021

Americans Supposedly Just Voted for Only Electric Vehicles

By Duggan Flanakin

The election of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and their ultra-progressive cabinet will hasten the death of the internal combustion engine ...

January 13, 2021

China Recolonizes Africa

By Duggan Flanakin

Joe Biden has pledged that one of his first acts as President will be rejoining the Paris climate treaty – ...

December 23, 2020

Nuking the Anti-Nuke Crowd

By Duggan Flanakin

How has the Trump Administration fared in meeting the multiple challenges that have slowed the growth of nuclear energy in ...

December 18, 2020