Around 30 percent of locations in North America have witnessed a 30 percent drop or more in available hub-height wind power. Sites in Europe were worse, where about 40 percent experienced a similar decline. Jason Hopkins Daily Caller News Foundation…
The order also calls on federal officials to streamline regulations and permitting processes to allow the harvest of at least 3.8 billion board feet from U.S. Forest Service lands and 600 million board feet from Bureau of Land Management lands.…
He said that in the past he has approached U.S. Forest Service (USFS) officials a number of times about the potential of his product for addressing the trend of hot, massive, deadly wildfires that have blackened the West in recent…
If approved, Twentymile could mine an estimated 4.7 million tons of coal from the Wolf Creek South seam, according to the BLM. The additional coal would produce about $13 million in royalties, which would be split between the state and…
As in past disputes between state and federal riverbed ownership, the key issue is the river’s “navigability.” Alaska was given title to lands below “navigable waters” under the Statehood Act of 1958 and through a 1953 law called the Submerged…
“Every year we go through this. We’re going to have safe forests and that’s happening as we speak,” Trump said in response to the reporter’s global warming question. Michael Bastasch Daily Caller TRUMP PROMISES ‘SAFE FORESTS’ AS HE SURVEYS CALIFORNIA…
In short, to blame the fires in California on the source of a fire’s ignition are attempts by politicians and bureaucrats to mislead the public’s attention away from their culpability for their errant policies that have created the conditions…
The bill also required the CPUC to work with utilities to mitigate wildfire risks, including putting transmission lines underground if necessary. The bill passed through both state legislative chambers, but Brown vetoed the bill in September 2016. Michael Bastasch Daily Caller AS CALIFORNIA…
Indeed, the latest National Climate Assessment special report found there’s only a “low to medium confidence for a detectable human climate change contribution in the western United States based on existing studies.” Michael Bastasch Daily Caller IT’S ‘NOT CORRECT’ TO…