This year’s Earth Day theme, “Our Power, Our Planet,” comes with a lofty ambition: tripling global installed renewable energy capacity by 2030, demanding a staggering 16.6% annual growth rate. On the surface,…
Category: climate change
EPA Cracks Down on Geo-Engineering Companies
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set its sights on geo-engineering companies engaging in controversial practices to manipulate Earth’s climate. Specifically, the EPA is targeting startups like Make Sunsets, a Northern…
USDA Funding Shift: A Practical Move for Farmers
The Trump administration’s decision to redirect USDA funding away from climate-smart and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs and into has sparked debate, but it’s a move grounded in pragmatism. Farmers are…
Solar Farms: A Fundamentally Flawed Vision of “Clean Energy”
The push for renewable energy has been sold as a moral imperative to save the planet, but the reality of solar arrays—sprawling fields of panels blanketing natural landscapes—raises serious questions about their…
The Absurdity of Regulating CO2 as a Pollutant
In 2009, the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an “Endangerment Finding” that classified carbon dioxide (CO2) as a pollutant under the 1970 Clean Air Act. Yes, you read that right—CO2,…
Lawmakers in Multiple US States Push to Ban Weather Modification Amid Controversy
A wave of legislative efforts is sweeping across the United States as lawmakers in Florida, Kentucky, Iowa, Arizona, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota seek to outlaw weather modification and geoengineering practices….
EPA Slams the Brakes on Biden’s Emissions Rules: A Win for Farmers’ Bottom Line
On March 12, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency dropped a bombshell that’s got folks across rural America breathing a sigh of relief. Under the new Trump administration, the EPA announced it’s rolling…
Precision Agriculture: Boosting Profits Through Smarter Farming
What Is Precision Agriculture? Precision agriculture (PA) is a farming approach that uses technology to optimize crop production and resource use on a field-by-field, or even plant-by-plant, basis. Think of it as…
USDA’s New Dawn: Brooke Rollins Shifts Focus from Green Dreams to Farmers’ Realities
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has taken a sharp turn under its new Secretary, Brooke Rollins, marking a significant departure from the climate-centric policies that defined the Biden administration’s agricultural agenda….
Shifting Gears: Why Biofuels, Not Electric Vehicles, Could Drive American Agriculture Forward
For years, the U.S. government has poured significant financial resources into promoting electric vehicles (EVs), a technology that, despite the hype, remains impractical for many Americans and unpopular relative to its ambitious…