Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens’ plan to move the nation’s vehicle fleet to natural gas is creating excitement in the White House. President Obama has already unveiled a tax break for commercial trucks that run on natural gas.  And this is just the beginning of his plan; he hopes that other tax breaks and subsidies will result in natural gas [...]

By Rebekah Rast — In response to President Obama’s Executive Order “Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes,” which he put into order on July 19, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson said: “Protecting our oceans, coasts and Great Lakes is critical to the health of our communities, vibrancy of our economy and overall security [...]

By Adam Bitely — If a Republican defeats Obama in 2012, the electorate will be expecting ObamaCare to be repealed within moments of that person taking the oath of office. Many have concerns that Mitt Romney would not repeal ObamaCare, and those concerns are based on the fact that in Massachusetts, Romney created a system that Obama says was the [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Despite an adverse court ruling out of Ecuador, Chevron continues to remain on the offensive against trial lawyers who are suing the company over environmental allegations that have been hotly disputed.  An Ecuadorian appeals court in Lago Agrio  upheld a ruling earlier this month ordering the company to pay $18 billion in damages to plaintiffs who [...]

By Adam Bitely — Last week (I know this will be hard to believe) three green energy stimulus recipients either filed for bankruptcy or had to significantly reduce their labor force! Three! Talk about green energy job creation. Talk about the sector that according to Obama and Biden is the future of the country! From last Friday: Earlier this week, [...]

Another green company on the government dole, Ener1, has gone bankrupt. ALG President Bill Wilson responded to the bankruptcy of Ener1 stating, “As early as 2008, an investment advisory firm Citron Research had issued dire warnings about Ener1, saying the company was ‘just a corporate shell company with a long history of failed businesses based on exaggerated promises’, citing the [...]

By John Vinci — Once again the Obama Administration is issuing waivers from its controversial Obamacare law in order to make it more politically palatable.  With high Catholic populations in key swing states, the Obama Administration announced last Friday that it will give 1-year waivers to Catholic and other religious organizations conscientiously opposed to a new regulation that requires employers [...]

By Howard Rich — Contrary to the rhetoric of our leaders, U.S. taxpayers are still subsidizing an ongoing bailout of the flailing Eurozone. This expansive financial commitment — components of which have been cleverly disguised as currency swaps — comes at a time when our country can least afford it. Entering 2012, the federal government’s debt stood at roughly $15.2 [...]

By Adam Bitely — In the past week, Barack Obama and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell found something they can agree on–they both support banning Uranium mining. As was reported earlier this week, “Last week, without much media attention, President Obama, this time via Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, put the nix on certain uranium mining on federal lands in northern [...]

By Paul Driessen — “[G]leaming white wind turbines generating carbon-free electricity carpet chaparral-covered ridges and march down into valleys of Joshua trees.” This is “the future” of American energy — not “the oil rigs planted helter-skelter in [nearby] citrus groves,” nor the “smoggy San Joaquin Valley” a few miles away. The Forbes article’s poetic paean to Aeolian energy nevertheless voiced [...]