Latest UN Climate Report Stokes Fears, Ignores Reality, Empowers Elites
Bonner Cohen, Ph.D., senior fellow at the National Center, has issued this response to the UN's latest climate report: The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims in its latest report that the world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years, pushing ...
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Schemes to Suck CO2 From the Air Will Reduce Global Food Supply
The obsession of global elites – in and out of government – with saving the planet from what they insist is a “climate crisis” includes a slew of policies that enrich politically favored purveyors of green energy while disregarding the interests of ordinary people. But neither Wall Street brokerage firms ...
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Pointless Climate Disclosures Threaten Corporations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), led by Gary Gensler, is finalizing a rule that will -- unless defeated in court -- require companies to make onerous carbon-emissions disclosures. These disclosures are unlikely either to help the environment or to inform investors about company bottom lines. Worse, if the ...
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Scott Shepard: If Carbon Emissions Are ‘Material Disclosures,’ So Is Everything Else
Recent reports suggest that Gary Gensler, the hard-left Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), has realized that his proposed carbon-disclosure rule is so sweeping and costly as to guarantee that the courts will strike it down. He is now mulling revisions that would keep some smaller companies from having to ...
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Project 21 to Testify Before House Energy and Commerce Committee in First Hearing of 118th Congress
Biden Energy Policies Threaten Minority Families and Businesses Washington, D.C. - Donna Jackson - the Director of Membership Development for Project 21, the black leadership network of the National Center for Public Policy Research - will testify today before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce for ...
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Conservative Activists Offer Exxon a Stellar, Sensible Board Nominee
Europe’s headed for a long, cold winter – the fault for which lies squarely at the feet of climate-catastrophist politicians and business executives. Neither of those groups appear to have learned the necessary lessons. National electorates are providing some salutary correction to the former; the latter might require legislation to ...
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If Global Warming Is ‘Existential,’ Will Larry Fink Ration?
If carbon emissions are a world-historical crisis, if they threaten the end of modern civilization, and if the only way to respond is to end those emissions, then we must all sacrifice, equally, the liberties and comforts that carbon emissions afford us – most especially those most loudly and aggressively demonizing carbon ...
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It’s Time To Turn The Tables On Our Would-Be Climate Overlords
American consumers are already reaping the whirlwind from the Biden administration’s deliberate sacrifice of American energy independence on the altar of green energy’s false promises. Whether at the pump or at the supermarket, Americans are seeing their disposable incomes eaten away by higher prices driven by the soaring cost of energy ...
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Court Stops Bureaucrats from Becoming “De Facto Lawmakers”
In the U.S. Supreme Court’s significant ruling in the case of West Virginia v. EPA, the justices pushed back hard against the unelected bureaucrats who have been trying to implement large-scale change regarding the nation’s energy policy, says National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. The Court pointed out that these ...
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Biden Orders Carbon Neutrality, But “No Executive Order Can Override the Laws of Physics”
President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at making the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050. Of course, just because he has demanded this pipe-dream goal doesn't mean it's feasible. "No executive order can override the laws of physics," responded National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen. "By seeking to make the federal ...
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Giving In to the Greens Only Got Exxon More Grief
ExxonMobil, a major target of the environmentalist lobby, is now supporting carbon taxes and adherence to the Paris climate accord. But this about-face on policy has not earned it any respect from the greens. This doesn’t surprise National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. In a RealClearEnergy report by Kevin ...
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Regulations Could Ruin Pennsylvania’s Energy Industry
Why would Pennsylvania’s leadership shoot itself in the foot? In a victory for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, a “climate change” zealot, the state’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted to approve proposed regulations that could impose cap-and-trade fees on energy producers. This an important milestone in state-level climate policy because the ...
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Biden’s “Social Cost” Climate Analysis Flawed
Black Activist Advocates Instead for Analysis of Regulatory Impact on Minorities Washington, D.C. - Noting that “[i]f the predictions of the environmental ‘experts’ and their models over the course of my life were true, I’d already be dead,” Derrick Hollie of the Project 21 black leadership network asked the Biden ...
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“Expert” Predictions No Substitute for Regulatory Safeguards Today
“If the predictions of the environmental ‘experts’ and their models over the course of my life were true, I’d already be dead.” In a Townhall commentary, Project 21 member Derrick Hollie makes a compelling case against the Biden Administration’s interest in an alleged long-term assessment of the “social cost” of ...
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Goldman Sachs CEO Accused of “Ignoring Fiduciary Duty” for Insisting on “Meaningless” and “Deeply Damaging” Climate Policies
Washington, D.C. – Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon made no apologies today for imposing restrictive carbon policies upon other American corporations, claiming these efforts best serve his clients. The Free Enterprise Project (FEP) disagreed, telling Solomon that these policies are in fact “ill-considered and deeply damaging.” At Goldman Sachs’s annual ...
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New Wind Energy Blowing Up Cybersecurity Threats
With the Biden Administration announcing its intention to increase the dependence of the American energy grid on renewable sources such as wind, it may also be increasing the threat of cyberattacks on infrastructure by random hackers and hostile governments such as Communist China. In a commentary for The Epoch Times, ...
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“Equity” a New Spin on Old, Unfair Politics
“Equity” is the new buzzword in the Biden Administration. But the notion of an equal outcome by any means necessary is just “another term” for more bad policies that will actually have very disparate results for those affected. Project 21 member Christopher Arps, appearing on the Newsmax morning program “Wake ...
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To Beat Biden, Trump Must Send UN Climate Treaty to Senate
While President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from the United Nations’s Paris Climate Agreement, there’s a distinct likelihood that Joe Biden will try to reinstate it as soon as he possibly can. That means it’s imperative for President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to use the ...
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Biden’s Paris Pledge Provides Chinese Advantage Over America
While the United States formally left the Paris Agreement on climate change on November 4, a victory for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would lead to a quick reversal. This is just what the Chinese government wants. And it would be getting this victory on the cheap. Abiding by the demands ...
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A Biden Win Benefits China
As the votes are counted in the United States, the Chinese government is undoubtedly hoping for a Biden victory to assist in the rehabilitation of its international reputation. Damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic which originated there, the Chinese are now focusing on the prospect of partnering with a Biden Administration ...
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