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Ringside: The Case for Carbon Sequestration via Natural Gas Power Plants

August 14, 2025 2:45 amAugust 14, 2025 2:46 am

In the case Massachusetts v. EPA in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate greenhouse gases because they qualify as air pollutants. And ever since, electric power plants using “thermal” fuels have faced escalating regulatory pressure. How...

Californians Choosing Between Gas or Groceries, Utility Bills or Rent

August 11, 2025 7:53 amAugust 12, 2025 6:26 am

How is it possible that in California, hard-working families must choose between gas or groceries, utility bills or rent? The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. today is $3.138. California’s cost for that same gallon...

Ringside: The Case for Carbon Sequestration via Forestry and Mass Timber

August 7, 2025 3:05 amAugust 7, 2025 3:06 am

There are at least two massive opportunities to engage in cost-effective carbon sequestration. Neither would require subsidies and both could be performed exclusively by the private sector. They are controversial, but for different reasons. This week, building on last week’s...

Asian Forests Victims of Intolerable ‘Green’ Lie

August 4, 2025 3:00 pmAugust 4, 2025 3:01 pm

In the modern climate debate, emotion and partisan allegiance replace critical thinking to smear carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant. Well-crafted green advocacies steal the spotlight, while reason languishes in the shadows of medieval-style witch hunts. The reality, however,...

The Politics of Weather in Beautiful California

July 31, 2025 2:31 pmAugust 2, 2025 7:47 am

California is enjoying a beautiful summer – particularly Northern California. Our usual July temperatures are hot – 90 to 100+ degrees. July 2025 has been glorious – high 70’s, and 80 to 85 degrees. It hit 90 degrees Monday and...

Ringside: Logging Saves Species and Increases Our Water Supply

July 31, 2025 2:55 amJuly 31, 2025 2:56 am

There are obvious benefits to logging, grazing, prescribed burns, and mechanical thinning of California’s forests. When you suppress wildfires for what is now over a century, then overregulate and suppress any other means to thin the forest, you get overcrowded...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Making Heads Explode by Repealing Obama Era Climate Policy

July 30, 2025 7:12 amJuly 31, 2025 7:37 am

Global warming. Global cooling. Climate change. Clean air regulations. CO2. Climate regulations. Global climate fight. Most people just call it weather – atmospheric conditions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is proposing the largest...