Green Economy

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VIDEO August 12

'The Five' blasts Biden for surging gas prices

'The Five' panel discusses U.S. oil crisis.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez May 5

Move over Marine Corps, AOC's pushing for 1.5M-strong 'Climate Corps'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive lawmakers are calling for the creation of a 1.5 million-strong group of civilians to work on federally funded projects addressing climate change as part of their sweeping Green New Deal legislation. 

OPINION August 28, 2019

Chuck DeVore: 'Green New Deal' preview? Texas town's lofty environmentalism leaves residents with a nightmare

A small city's big problems trying to run on 100 percent renewable energy show why we need affordable, reliable and efficient fossil fuels.

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VIDEO December 9, 2018

Are Paris gas tax riots a blow to climate change movement?

What the French president and other world leaders are learning from the public reaction to anti-fossil fuel policies.

UNITED NATIONS July 26, 2016

As UN pushes radical Sustainable Development Goals, scientists are trying to make sense of them

EXCLUSIVE: Less than a year after the United Nations embraced the all-encompassing, socialist-oriented agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals, scientists are just beginning to try to figure out what the new goals may entail, how they can even be measured, and where the high-flown objectives contradict or impede themselves.

Presidential Primaries April 26, 2016

UN special adviser leaves Sanders advisory role after months of attacks on Hillary Clinton

World-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, who plays a high-powered role as special adviser to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and director of a number of U.N.-sponsored enterprises, abruptly resigned last week from one of his other part-time jobs: foreign policy adviser for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Climate Change December 9, 2015

Compromise breaks deadlock at UN climate talks

Developed countries and fast-growing economies reached a last-minute compromise Saturday to avert a breakdown of U.N. climate talks in Warsaw.

Green Economy December 9, 2015

Exclusive: UN ignores science council warnings in creating vast Sustainable Development Goals

When the United Nations approved a massive agenda of sustainable development goals last week, it over-rode pointed warnings by two international science councils that the program is in many ways uncoordinated, unmeasurable and unrealistically ambitious.  

Sustainable Development December 7, 2015

John Podesta, key player in administration’s regulation drive, also helped UN develop radical new global agenda

John Podesta, the former Clinton Administration chief of staff who is spearheading President Barack Obama’s aggressive strategy of government- by -regulation, has also been helping United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with an even more ambitious job: setting the stage to radically transform the world’s economic, environmental and social agenda.