Michael Bastasch

TEXAS - Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke warned global warming “could, at its worst, lead to extinction” during his first campaign stop at a coffee shop in Keokuk, Iowa, on Thursday. O’Rourke praised the Green New…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvbU9xuDyC8 WASHINGTON - Greenpeace is distancing itself from Green New Deal critic and ecologist Patrick Moore, dubiously claiming the former activist is not one of its co-founders. “Patrick Moore…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIXdeAmE6M NEW YORK - Immigration activists see their campaign to get banks to divest from private prison companies as a backdoor way to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by taking…

WASHINGTON - A rhetorical brawl over climate change broke out on the Senate floor as Democrats chided Republicans for criticizing the Green New Deal without proposing an alternative plan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and…

Utah Rep. Rob Bishop recently joined members of the Western Caucus at a public forum on the Green New Deal where he ate a hamburger in defiance of the sweeping proposal that’s backed by Democratic presidential candidates.Photo: House…

Amy Oliver Cooke, director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at the free-market Independence Institute during an interview on energy policy with Jon Caldara of Devil’s Advocate in 2014. Credit: Colorado Public Television,…

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s bid to run for president in 2020 as a moderate pragmatist may not play well in a Democratic field that’s sprinted left, especially on energy issues. “The fact that he seems moderate tells you…

LEE COUNTY - At least 23 people were killed after two powerful tornadoes ripped through communities in southeast Alabama Sunday afternoon, and officials said the death toll could rise as search efforts resume. “I cannot recall, at…

Cato Institute climate scientist Patrick Michaels at the Heritage Foundation on discussing climate change and the social cost of carbon in 2015. Michaels criticized alarmists on climate change with panelists during this year’s Conservative…