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

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

Electric Vehicle Shock Treatment

By Duggan Flanakin

Joe Biden, his fellow Democrats, and apparently big U.S. automakers, have joined the rush to transform America’s transportation to 100 ...

December 10, 2020

Government Transparency Should Not be Controversial

By Duggan Flanakin

Ballot harvesting, behind-the-curtains ballot counting and other hijinks have made transparency a critical issue this election year.Meanwhile, as the U.S. ...

November 17, 2020

Coddling China: Will It Ever End?

By Duggan Flanakin

What is it about Communist China that makes the world’s most populous nation such a favorite of the international globalist, ...

October 26, 2020

What is The Antidote to ‘Wokeness’?

By Duggan Flanakin

Political comedian Evan Sayet says he has long dedicated himself to conserving and promoting the American values that have given ...

October 15, 2020

Wind Turbines Generate Mountains of Waste

By Duggan Flanakin

Environmentalists and wind energy opportunists (entrepreneurs who take advantage of overly generous tax credits and multiple other subsidies) want you ...

September 25, 2020

Solar Panels Generate Mountains of Waste

By Duggan Flanakin

The problem of solar panel waste is now becoming evident. As environmental journalist Emily Folk admits in Renewable Energy Magazine, ...

September 17, 2020

Remembering EPA’s Gold King Mine Blowout – Part 2

By Duggan Flanakin

On August 5, five years to the day after suffering from a 3-million-gallon spill of heavy-metal-laden toxic wastewater from Colorado’s ...

September 05, 2020

Remembering the Gold King Mine Blowout

By Duggan Flanakin

On the fifth anniversary of the notorious spill of 3 million gallons of heavily contaminated acid mine water from the ...

September 04, 2020

The Racism of Climate Change Alarmists

By Duggan Flanakin

Climate alarmists now proclaim that climate change is racist. What hypocrisy. By this theory, the sun, our galaxy, and their ...

August 25, 2020

The Cancun Climate Con

By Duggan Flanakin

As conference delegates shivered in Cancun during its coldest weather in 100 years, power-hungry elitists labored behind the scenes to ...

December 26, 2010