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2 weeks ago | 
cfact.org | Bonner R. Cohen |Ph. D
Vowing to “counter China’s growing influence over seabed mineral resources,” the Trump administration is opening a new front against America’s chief geopolitical rival. “Vast offshore seabed areas hold critical minerals and energy resources,” an April 24 presidential executive order states. “These resources are key to strengthening our economy, securing our energy future, and reducing dependence on foreign suppliers for critical minerals.”The timing of the executive order is no coincidence.
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1 month ago | 
cfact.org | Bonner R. Cohen |Ph. D
The rapid push toward “renewable” energy—while rooted in good intentions—may be creating new vulnerabilities, including rising costs and a less stable power grid. “That is exactly what we recently saw happen in Spain, when all of a sudden … the electricity went out … it was a wake-up call, because that was a preview of coming attractions,” he says.
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1 month ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Bonner Russell Cohen |Ph. D
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/21/46499/By The Endangered Species Act today serves the anti-capitalist gadflies of the Left far better than it protects wildlife.
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1 month ago | 
cfact.org | Bonner R. Cohen |Ph. D
The Endangered Species Act today serves the anti-capitalist gadflies of the Left far better than it protects wildlife.
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1 month ago | 
cfact.org | Bonner R. Cohen |Ph. D
Putting an end to what Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins calls a “politically motivated witch hunt,” the Trump administration dropped criminal charges against a South Dakota ranching and farming couple whom the Biden-era U.S. Forest Service accused of perpetrating the “theft” of federal land.
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2 months ago | 
cfact.org | Bonner R. Cohen |Ph. D
In a widely expected move, the Trump administration will not defend a Biden-era Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate disclosure rule under challenge by a slew of red-state attorneys general and industry groups. The White House’s hostility to the “Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” rule, and to the broader Biden climate agenda of which it was a part, was never in doubt.
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2 months ago | 
yourtango.com | Robin Stern |Marc Brackett |Ph. D
Merriam-Webster selected “polarization” as its 2024 Word of the Year, and it’s no surprise why. From the left to the right, we’ve been moving along a spectrum of extremes, and it’s not just political. Our emotions have been along for the ride, too. But can we change what happened in the past — whether on a personal level, in the political sphere, or in any life event that left us feeling lost and unmoored? No, we cannot. What we can do is move forward.
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2 months ago | 
cfact.org | Bonner R. Cohen |Ph. D
A green company’s years-long effort to use the power of eminent domain to seize farmland in the Plains States was derailed after Republican South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden signed legislation on March 13 barring the condemnation of private property for the construction of a CO2 pipeline.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
cfact.org | Bonner R. Cohen |Ph. D
Proclaiming ‘the death of the Green New Scam,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has committed his agency to “driving a dagger through climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age.”In a sweeping March 12 announcement, Zeldin called for “reconsidering” (meaning, in most cases, revoking) 31 EPA rules and regulations, most of which were imposed by the Biden and Obama administrations to combat human-caused climate change.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
cfact.org | Bonner R. Cohen |Ph. D
The uncovering of an elaborate money laundering scheme that quietly funneled $20 billion in taxpayer funds to well-connected environmental groups as the curtain fell on the Biden administration provides fresh justification for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to root out widespread waste and corruption in the federal bureaucracy.
