Environment

Weekend Tornadoes Wreak Havoc

Over 50 tornadoes ripped through the Midwest this weekend, killing 15 people and reducing homes and buildings across the states to piles of...

Raven Clabough June 7, 2010

CEI Sues NASA to Disclose Global-warming Info

Thomas R. Eddlem May 31, 2010

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is suing NASA to release information explaining why the agency revised its global-warming data upward in 2007, after having...

European Public Turns Against Climate-change Theory

James Heiser May 26, 2010

Public opinion about climate change is slipping away from the grasp of the Fourth Estate, to the chagrin of advocates of the theory...

Earth Is Cooling, Sea Levels Not Rising, Scientists Say

William F. Jasper May 20, 2010

As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider enormously expensive cap-and-trade legislation, supposedly aimed at curbing alleged global warming caused by man-made emissions, scientists...

What’s the Problem with the Gulf Oil Leak?

Rebecca Terrell May 14, 2010

Industry and government officials continue their desperate efforts to contain an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that began on April 20...

Gulf Oil-leak Efforts Continue

Rebecca Terrell May 11, 2010

Three weeks after the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, the response team is still working to contain three leaks spewing oil into the...

Gulf Oil Spill Opportunists

Rebecca Terrell May 7, 2010

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to parlay the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion and ongoing leak into a significant increase...

EPA Offers Cash for Propaganda

Alex Newman April 28, 2010

The Environmental Protection Agency is offering thousands of taxpayer dollars and free publicity to whoever produces the most compelling pro-government-regulation propaganda, it announced...

Vatican Supports Adult Stem-cell Research

Mary McHugh April 26, 2010

The Vatican will help fund a research study into the potential use of adult stem cells to treat intestinal and possibly other diseases,...

The CFL Bulb Is Not Environmentally Friendly

William F. Jasper April 24, 2010

For millions of environmental activists the Compact Fuorescent Light bulb (CFL) has become a popular mascot rivaling the World Wildlife Fund's panda bear...

Have You Hugged Your Planet Today?

James Heiser April 22, 2010

Be nice to the tree huggers today: It has been a rough year for the jolly green juggernaut since the last Earth...

International Conference of Scientists to Challenge Global-warming Alarmism

William F. Jasper April 9, 2010

The Heartland Institute's fourth International Conference on Climate Change is scheduled to take place in Chicago May 16-18 and will feature more than...

EPA Increases Automobile Costs While Seizing Legislative Power

James Heiser April 9, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson attracted international attention when, having apparently become bored waiting for the messy process of representative government to...