The sheer size of the windmills and the difficulty of disposing of them at recycling stations led the agency to conclude that each new wind farm is a “towering promise of future wreckage.” Amy Joi O'Donoghue Deseret News The dark…
Solar and wind farms also need 100 times the land area of fossil fuel-generated electricity, and these resulting changes in land use can have a devastating effect on biodiversity. The effects of bioenergy on biodiversity are worse, and the increased…
Pollock told me he thinks nothing hurt the land more than the monument designation. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management already managed the area, conducting vegetation treatments, water improvements, and soil erosion projects. The agency cooperated fairly well with locals,…
As consumers, we have an absolute moral and possibly a national security imperative to explore alternatives to cobalt dug up overseas under conditions of unimaginable horror and embedded in our lifestyle...One alternative could be the proposed subsurface Colt Mesa cobalt…
Just in the past year, hundreds of thousands of miles of roads have been closed under the travel management plan (TMP) by the USFS and BLM. They claim from December 15 to April 15, the roads are off limits to…
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change’s recent report, Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels, shows a warmer climate has produced net benefits to human health and welfare, as has the use of coal as an energy source... Kenneth Artz Heartland…
"This is a victory for local communities, advocates for public lands, and proponents for a more responsible and accountable federal government.” July 15, 2019 From a press release issued by the office of United States Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner…
...this turnaround was driven by mining and logging (which went from negative 11 percent job growth in 2016 to positive 7.4 percent in 2018), construction (2.8 percent to 3.5 percent), and manufacturing (negative 0.3 percent to 2.4 percent). Those are…
The irony and illogic of the Guardians’ nuisance lawsuit defied belief. A group ostensibly dedicated to protecting nature was attacking and disabling a company equally dedicated to mitigating mankind’s impact on the Earth; to restoring millions of worn out acres…
The Tribune reported the “crash of the coal mining industry in southern West Virginia has left hundreds of residents in charge of their own small water systems – some of which date to the Civil War.” Michael Bastasch Daily Caller…