H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is the director of The Heartland Institute's Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issuing a stay on a district court order requiring the Dakota Access pipeline to be shut down and drained by August 6, allows the pipeline to continue operating during the appeals process.
The United States Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing most oil and gas pipeline projects approved under expedited procedures by the Trump administration to proceed.
Dominion Energy and Duke Energy, two of the largest utilities in the United States, announced they were cancelling the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project that had been in various stages of development for six years.
Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” To verify a hypothesis, there must be a test by which it can be proved false.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued ExxonMobil Corp., Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute, claiming they deceived consumers for decades about the causes and consequences of supposed human caused climate change.
The Trump Administration finalized regulations to allow liquefied natural gas to be shipped across country by rail for the first time ever without the need for special permits.
In another in a string of defeats in lawsuits in which youth plaintiffs are attempting to force governments to take action to fight climate change, Florida circuit court Judge Kevin Carroll dismissed a lawsuit brought eight Florida youths against Gov. Ron DeSantis and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal appeals court ruling that held the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) lacked the authority to allow a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to cross...
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is the director of The Heartland Institute's Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News.