By Vijay Jayaraj In April 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave America’s coal and gas plants an ultimatum: capture most of your carbon dioxide emissions or close. On September 14, the agency withdrew the order. The repeal corrects one of the most reckless regulatory actions of the past decade. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin… Continue Reading
by Vijay Jayaraj Politicians in and around Washington, D.C., posture as guardians of the planet while standing by seemingly unconcerned for weeks as raw sewage from their backyard spills into the Potomac River flowing through the nation’s capital and into the Chesapeake Bay’s fishery. The spill started January 19 with the failure of a 60-million-gallon-a-day… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj For 20 years, an alliance of partisan ideologues hungry for power and the profits of lobbying and grifting, along with crisis-obsessed media and certain academic elites, dictated what many politicians would back, what faculty would publish and what journalists dared to report about climate change. Activists leveraged the narrative of a false… Continue Reading