Articles By Author H. Sterling Burnett
Articles by H. Sterling Burnett
02/25/2010 12:00 AM
Bipartisan groups of legislators in both the U.S. House and Senate are attempting to pass legislation to halt the Environmental Protection Agency’s ...(read more)
02/25/2010 12:00 AM
In challenging EPA’s proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congressional leaders are following the lead of several states that have mounted ...(read more)
01/18/2010 12:00 AM
A series of e-mails between scientists who serve as gatekeepers for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change leaked from the ...(read more)
11/01/2009 12:00 AM
Kittitas County, Washington is experiencing sticker shock as the true cost of solar power is coming in at more than three times the promised price.In less ...(read more)
10/01/2009 12:00 AM
Dozens of very productive new wells near North Dakota’s Bakken oil field have state officials believing another massive new oil find may be at hand.A ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
The Waxman-Markey bill to restrict carbon dioxide emissions would cost $846 billion in the next decade alone, in the form of required payments for emissions ...(read more)
05/01/2009 12:00 AM
In a surprising blow to environmental activists and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union, Los Angeles voters rejected a ballot initiative ...(read more)
01/01/2009 12:00 AM
One of the most effective, widely used herbicides in the United States—known as 2, 4-D—has a serious drawback: It devastates grapes. That makes ...(read more)
11/01/2008 12:00 AM
Recent polls show the citizens of California and Florida, where opening the Outer Continental Shelf to offshore oil and natural gas exploration has historically ...(read more)
09/16/2008 12:00 AM
Futile actions ought not be required by law. Since no actions contemplated by the EPA would, in fact, have any measureable impact on overall greenhouse ...(read more)
07/01/2008 12:00 AM
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have each released new reports showing global warming legislation would ...(read more)
03/01/2008 12:00 AM
After years of trying to get wind farm operators to act voluntarily to reduce bird deaths at the Altamont Pass, California wind farm, environmental groups ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
Residents of Kittitas County, Washington are expressing their outrage at Gov. Christine Gregoire's (D) September 18 decision to overrule county officials ...(read more)
09/01/2007 12:00 AM
Carbon dioxide (CO2) trading is being championed by nearly a dozen proposals floating around Congress during the summer recess, but the failure of Europe's ...(read more)
07/01/2007 12:00 AM
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) plan to build two new hydroelectric dams has foundered, at least temporarily, as the California Senate on April ...(read more)
04/01/2007 12:00 AM
Several state climatologists--researchers officially charged with gathering, analyzing, and disseminating climate and weather information for the states--are ...(read more)
04/01/2007 12:00 AM
In an ironic twist to the ongoing persecution of state climatologists who doubt global warming alarmism, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform ...(read more)
03/01/2007 12:00 AM
Despite healthy polar bear populations upwards of 20,000 bears worldwide, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced on December 27 the Bush ...(read more)
03/01/2007 12:00 AM
Sir Nicholas Stern, author of a controversial October 2006 report alleging global warming will wreak havoc on the global economy, on December 11 resigned ...(read more)
08/01/2006 12:00 AM
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the "Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2005" with a substantial bipartisan majority in November 2005. The ...(read more)
07/01/2006 12:00 AM
In May, Minnesota and New Hampshire enacted legislation imposing stricter controls than existing federal proposals to limit the emission of mercury from ...(read more)
06/08/2006 12:00 AM
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A new study by Dr. David Legates, Delaware's State Climatologist and director of the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research, throws cold ...(read more)
04/01/2006 12:00 AM
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D) on January 30 called on Congress to draft legislation forcing oil companies to "give consumers a refund," shortly after he ...(read more)
