Release: Immediate March 25, 2026 CO2 Coalition Names Angela Wheeler Executive Director FAIRFAX, Va. – Angela Wheeler has been named Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition, a prominent voice in a global climate realism movement that is reversing policies harmful to economies and people and of no environmental value. Wheeler succeeds Gregory Wrightstone, who…
3.23.2026
Unsettled: Climate Change’s Real Story premiers on Sunday, March 29 at 9:00 PM on Newsmax!
Unsettled: Climate Change’s Real Story premiers on Sunday, March 29 at 9:00 PM on Newsmax! Featuring Steve Koonin, Chris Wright, John Clauser, Will Happer and Gregory Wrightstone This trailer was made and produced by Newsmax.
Release: Immediate March 20, 2026 CO2 Coalition Seeks to Defend Repeal of EPA Rule FAIRFAX, Va. – The CO2 Coalition is requesting to join a federal D.C. Court of Appeals case to support the EPA’s repeal of a 2009 rule that classified carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles as a dangerous pollutant. The Coalition’s March 20th…
Statement of Gregory Wrightstone Executive Director, CO2 Coalition Re: Repeal of Endangerment Finding 2/12/26 The repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Endangerment Finding by Administrator Lee Zeldin is cause for celebration. The basis of this wrongheaded climate regulation put ideology ahead of science. The rule has been an impediment to economic growth, a cause of…
Railroad Commission of Texas Oil and Gas Division Technical Permitting P.O. Box 12967 Austin, Texas 78711-2967 E-mail: SIP@rrc.texas.gov January 15, 2026 Re: Comment on Project No. 57803 (ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions Onshore Storage, LLC, 22777 Springwoods Village Parkway, Spring, TX 77389) Dear Members of the Railroad Commission of Texas: Whenever permits involving the use of…
Job Announcement POSITION: Executive Director REPORTS TO: Board of Directors LOCATION: Fairfax, Virginia About the Coalition The CO2 Coalition is a rapidly growing 501(c)(3) established in 2015 to educate thought leaders, policymakers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy. The Coalition seeks to engage in…
FAIRFAX, Va. – Gregory Wrightstone will assume the position of Senior Fellow at the CO2 Coalition after leading the organization through a period of extraordinary growth. Wrightstone will continue to serve as Executive Director until a replacement is found. Since assuming the role of Executive Director five years ago, Wrightstone has overseen a sixfold increase…
By Steve Goreham A nuclear energy resurgence is underway, driven by the artificial intelligence revolution and the Trump administration. Nuclear plants that were shut down are being restarted. Dozens of small reactors are being deployed. But nuclear power still faces major cost, startup time, and regulatory obstacles. The first commercial nuclear plant started operation at…
Bill Gates Photo Credit: © European Union, 2025, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons From Epoch Times’ Kevin Stocklin: Written as a message to attendees of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Brazil, which begins on Nov. 10, Gates’s op-ed states that the biggest problems the world faces are poverty and disease, not rising…
by Wallace Manheimer For at least a decade, the CO2 Coalition, and many other organizations and individuals, have argued, and presented solid scientific evidence debunking the claims of a rapidly encroaching climate crisis due to excess CO2 in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuel. Also, they have presented solid arguments that windmills,…
Hiroshi L. Tanaka Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba International Environment and Economy Institute (IEEI) October 17, 2025 Global warming is a hoax In his presentation at the General Assembly of United Nations on September 23, 2025, President Trump stated, “Global warming is a hoax ” and that climate change policy is “The greatest con job…
From Delaware Valley Journal: “As far as the governor’s ‘get stuff done’ marketing goes, we’ve seen no improvement in the speed of approvals for permit applications or renewals,” says Jim Panaro, executive vice president of Robindale Energy.” Read the full article here: https://delawarevalleyjournal.com/tomb-has-governor-shapiro-reformed-permitting-business-leaders-say-no/
September 27, 2025 Governor Gavin Newsom 1021 O Street, Suite 9000, Sacramento, CA 95814 Chair Liane Randolph lauren.sanchez@arb.ca.gov Incoming Chair Lauren Sanchez Executive Director Steven S. Cliff, PhD California Air Resources Board (CARB) 1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: CO2 Coalition Challenges Governor Newsom on the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding Dear Governor Newsom and…
From Politico E&E News: More than a quarter of the candidates for an expert and influential EPA panel were pushed by the executive director of a nonprofit group that downplays the dangers of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. Should agency Administrator Lee Zeldin choose any of the active nominees advanced by the CO2 Coalition to serve on…
From Mark W. Henderickson, published in Faith & Freedom on July 16, 2025: With rapidly evolving technologies such as artificial intelligence, ever-larger data centers, cloud computing, quantum computing, etc., causing our society’s demand for electricity to increase at an accelerating rate, it is imperative that we find ways to ramp up the supply of energy…
Yoshihiro Muronaka International Environment and Economy Institute (IEEI) July 22, 2025 Introduction The report titled ‘Physics Demonstrates That Increasing Greenhouse Gases Cannot Cause Dangerous Warming, Extreme Weather or Any Harm’ (June 7, 2025), authored by Professor Emeritus Richard Lindzen of MIT and Professor Emeritus William Happer of Princeton University, questions the scientific basis and economic consequences…
7.16.2025
Researchers Say National Climate Assessment Full of Flaws, Ask Trump to Reassess Past Versions
Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) and the CO2 Coalition are asking the Trump administration to fix flaws they say are in the previous assessments. This would bring the influential reports in line with Trump’s “Restoring Gold Standard Science” executive order. From Kevin Killough, originally published at Just the News on June 24, 2025: A government watchdog…
From Steve Goreham, originally published by MasterResource: From New York to California, state renewable electrical power dreams are collapsing. Power demands soar, while the federal government cuts funding and support for wind, solar, and grid batteries. Renewables cannot provide enough power to support the artificial intelligence revolution. The Net Zero electricity transition is failing in…
From Kevin Mooney, originally published by Daily Caller: Donald Trump’s abrupt shift back toward an “America First” energy policy has predictably caused heads to explode as climate policies gradually give way to the free market. Do an internet search on “Trump and endangerment finding” or “EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and endangerment finding,” or some combination of…
From Kevin Mooney, originally published by Daily Caller: Donald Trump’s abrupt shift back toward an “America First” energy policy has predictably caused heads to explode as climate policies gradually give way to the free market. Do an internet search on “Trump and endangerment finding” or “EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and endangerment finding,” or some combination…
By Steve Goreham, originally published at RealClearEnergy: Trump Administration actions to scale back renewable energy capture headlines, but citizens are also pushing back. Efforts to deploy wind and solar systems face a rising tide of opposition in towns, counties, and states. Mandates for electric vehicles and electric home appliances are being challenged. The combination of…
By John Droz Jr., originally published on his Substack: Dr. Roger Pielke, jr is a well-known person in the climate arena, although his Science credentials are a bit wanting (e.g., his PhD is in political science). I worked with his dad (Dr. Roger Pielke, sr) for many years and he was a bona-fide climate scientist,…
2.25.2025
Controlling Ways to Generate Electricity Through Subsidies is a Terrible Plan for the Planet
By Ronald Stein and Dr. Cleveland Jones The few wealthy countries of Germany, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, other EU countries, and the USA, representing less than one of the eight billion on Planet Earth, are mandating social changes to achieve net zero emissions in their small worlds within this planet. The wealthier countries are…
From Gordon Tomb, originally published by The Daily Signal: It’s no secret that energy prices are on the rise. High demand for electricity and tight supplies—exacerbated by early retirements of coal-fired power plants—strain grid capacity nationwide. But rather than take accountability for destructive policies that produced these conditions, Democrat governors play the blame game. In October, electric…