In Episode 21 of Conservation Country, host @GabriellaHoffman investigates a Biden-era policy to designate Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage…
Category: Environment
Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning
Land-based wind turbines kill golden eagles, so every turbine requires an Eagle Protection Act permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to kill them.
UN Plastics Treaty Collapses
This is great news for the global economy, as radical proposals sought to place taxes and controls on every phase of plastic production and use.
NOAA petitioned to stop offshore wind killing whales
Three environmental groups have formally petitioned NOAA to revoke its prior marine mammal harassment authorizations citing new science that harassment can be deadly. The specific target of the petition is…
Reclaiming ‘Environmentalism’ From the Climate Extremists
One of the major environmentalist movements of the 1960s was fronted by then-First Lady “Lady Bird” Johnson, who initiated a campaign to “Keep America Beautiful.” Johnson explained that her passion…
UN’s ‘plastics treaty’ sports a junk science wrapper
Ultimately, the marketplace of ideas—not the offices of policy NGOs—will deliver the solutions we need. It’s time to break the wave of junk science—not ride it.
Burning Trash for Energy, People and Planet
Metro areas and states should apply pragmatism, reality and these benefits when reconsidering climate and “renewable” energy ideologies that have dominated public policies for far too long.
CFACT report: Feds fail to “offset” wind turbine eagle kills
At a minimum, FWS should issue no new wind power eagle-kill permits until the glaring issues uncovered in this study are resolved. Accurate electrocution death rates must be determined. Given…
Augusta Chronicle’s Climate Myth: Invasive Species in Georgia Not Driven by Warming
So, since neither temperature, precipitation, drought, nor hurricane trends have changed much in Georgia, contrary to the Augusta Chronicle’s slant a “changing climate” can’t be behind any perceived or observed increase…
An Earth Day Addendum: Environmental Justice and the Poor
Accordingly, the “environmental justice” issue is little more than the observation, or complaint, that the poor consume less environmental quality than others, that is, that they choose to allocate their…
Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences
Compensatory mitigation looks like a legal loophole designed to help the wind power industry avoid the Eagle Protection Act. The wind power facilities are just buying the indulgence of killing…
The Blade Stops Here: France Holds Wind Industry Accountable at Last
France’s court system has done what most governments have failed to do: impose real accountability on an industry that’s been operating with impunity. The Bernagues decision should serve as a…
Two new studies imply the Golden Eagle cannot survive more wind turbines
The threat to Golden Eagles from wind is potentially enormous. Wind power generating capacity today is about 160,000 MW. The queue of new wind interconnection applications is around an incredible…
Gila Monsters Are Threatened by Development Not Warming, Science News
The Gila monster migration data presented by the study authors, although interesting, was unfortunately informed by flawed climate models and the extreme modelling scenarios they chose to use to forecast…
Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl
“Until conservation charities disentangle themselves from government funding and corporate influence, they risk becoming complicit in the very destruction they were created to prevent.” – Kelly Jones (Carbon8 Fund) below
Lift the veil on wind power killing eagles
In addition to the allowable kill numbers the eagle death reports should be made public. People need to know that wind projects in their county or state are killing eagles,…
Ending the fallacy of Environmental Racism
The debate over environmental justice has been overtaken by the term “environmental racism” — the claim that minority communities suffer disproportionately from pollution because of systemic racism. While it is…
My 41 wind-threatens-whales articles track federal deception
A New Years’s retrospective. Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years. All have been carefully…
Another eXcellent Post from Chris Martz
Based on land requirements alone, if climate activists were serious environmentalists, they would support deployment of more nuclear power. Some of them do, but most I have interacted with don’t…
Rural and coastal residents delay, block green energy projects
Environmentalists insist that they love the “little guys” — until they get in their way, ask inconvenient questions or try to block renewable energy projects intended to save the planet…
BOEM Finally Acknowledges the Harm Caused by Offshore Wind Farms
In a surprising yet overdue move, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released its Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the New York Bight. This document, despite…
Supposed Guardians of Rhode Island’s Waters Sell Out to Big Wind
Once considered Rhode Island’s most esteemed environmental Non-Profit, Save the Bay Rhode Island is now failing to operate in accordance with its mission. With the nation’s first offshore turbine farms,…
Feel-Good Environmental Regulations Won’t Save the Planet, But They Do Harm Consumers
Countless other feel-good attempts at environmental regulation by policymakers intent on fighting climate change exist and many exact a similar toll on consumers, whether they be water-saving faucet requirements that reduce flow…
