This secrecy must end. Federal agencies working in secret with wind interests, while golden eagles are being killed in large numbers, is not acceptable.
Category: Environment
Heartland Institute Climate Experts Comment on Earth Day
“Earth Day today feels increasingly detached from the kind of environmental problems that gave rise to it in 1970. Back then, the issues were obvious and immediate — urban smog,…
Eco-Friendly’ Energy Slaughtering Wildlife
By Vijay Jayaraj Numerous studies by biologists and ornithologists are unequivocal in expressing rising concern about the slaughter of birds and other creatures by so-called eco-friendly technologies. Many of the…
He Radicalized the Sierra Cub. Now He’s Preaching Markets.
The environmental left spent a generation treating capitalism as the enemy. Meanwhile, capitalism was busy building the clean energy economy they claimed to want.
New York Times Gives Wind Turbines a Free Pass to Slaughter Birds
True stewardship means looking at the data without ideological blinders. It means acknowledging that wind turbines are apex predators of the sky. It means admitting that the push for “Net…
Bald Eagle’s Grizzly Death at Obama‑Funded Wind Project Site Triggers Federal Fine
Until regulators and policymakers confront the reality that these projects are wiping out key predators in the natural food chain, it is dishonest to market this form of power as…
Real Environmental Crisis Is Not Climate Change
The real environmental emergency isn’t the modest warming that has helped humans thrive. It’s land degradation, poisoned water and other forms of pollution that are burying the Global South alive.…
New Lawsuit Claims Ziploc Plastic Bags Dose Food with Microplastics
The case is interesting because of how ubiquitous plastic bags for food storage and preparation are. I suspect the debate over microplastics and consumer safety will continue, despite existing evidence…
Save Okefenokee Swamp from UNESCO Control
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…
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…
Earth Day 2026: “Our Power, Our PlanetTM, Our Propaganda” Redux
One would think that after all these years since 1970 the Earth Day proponents would engage in some soul searching about the fact that their endless apocalyptic assertions about environmental…