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Riley Wasler, CFACT Driessen Fellow for Illinois State University, recently organized a nature hike for a number of his peers at the Parklands Merwin Preserve. This preserve contains dozens of unique microclimates that were created thousands of years ago by the Wisconsin Glacier retreat. Today it serves as a favorite hiking destination for Illinois residents. Riley Wasler and others posing during their recent nature hike As the students meandered through...

Ohio State University Students were surprised to see an eight-foot-tall tyrannosaurus rex running around campus with an “I Love Fossil Fuels” sign this week. CFACT National Field Coordinator Omarr Peters and Driessen Fellow Chandler Wysocki were the culprits behind this amusing ruse designed to instigate conversations about the importance of fossil fuels to our economy. Speaking with dozens of students about the importance of the oft maligned fossil fuels, The...

Liberty University Driessen Fellow Julia Heath recently provided written testimony to the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) imploring the agency abandon its pursuit of so-called renewable energy and instead support the construction of additional natural gas plants. Julia, writing about Dominion Energy’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), stated that the company would need to build gas powered electrical production facilities as a backup for peak and low production periods.  She also...

CFACT has been traversing the Midwest bringing their message of free market solution for complex problems in energy and environmental public policy as being the best options to students. At a recent visit to Hillsdale College, a private liberal arts school near the Ohio-Michigan border, CFACT National Field Coordinator Omarr Peters met up with the conservative school’s Driessen Fellow, Jacob Fox.  On campus the two partnered with Citizens for Self-Government,...

CFACT’s National Field Coordinator Omarr Peters gave a presentation to college students in Cleveland, Ohio this past weekend. Invited to a training event hosted by the Leadership institute, Omarr taught students from across the Midwest and Northeast how to become more effective campus activists. CFACT National Field Coordinator Omarr Peters speaking to class The Leadership Institute is considered the preeminent conservative youth training organization in America. Their founder, a former...

CFACT held a successful “Hunting is Conservation” at the University of Louisiana. Home to over 15,000 students, this institution is the second largest university in the state and home of Louisiana’s only industrial design degree.  CFACT National Field Director, Greg Neff, interacted with scores of students challenging them to use a toy gun to shoot an inflatable deer. This activism stunt presented the opportunity to showcase the important role hunters...

CFACT’s highly regarded Collegians program kicked off the 2023-2024 school year this past weekend by serving as one of the sponsors of a large student activism conference in Orlando. Hosted by Young Americans for Liberty, the theme of this gathering was called “Revolution 2023” and it drew roughly a thousand student activists and hundreds of state representatives from across the country. CFACT held a highly successful tabling event at the...

Liberty University, the nation’s largest evangelical Christian university, is home to one of CFACT’s many vibrant campus groups. This past semester our campus group there took it upon themselves to put stewardship of the planet into action by cleaning up the beautiful nature preserve at Percival’s Island. This island, located along the James River in eastern Lynchburg, is home to many of North America’s most beloved species including the Bald...

During a recent tour of California, CFACT’s National Field Coordinator, Greg Neff, went by Fresno State University to pass out literature countering the mainstream political narrative and discuss these facts with students. Fresno State is a public university in California with an enrollment of over 25,000 students and home to numerous climate alarmism activists. In recent years community members have participated in events such as a “climate strike” where employees...

CFACT had the distinct honor of speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as part of the Leadership Institute’s Youth Leadership School. The Leadership Institute (LI), founded in the late seventies by former Reagan special advisor Morton Blackwell, has established a reputation as the preeminent grassroots advocacy training organization on the conservative side. Student listening to the training LI is known for bringing in some of the best in grassroots...

UCLA, one of California’s largest universities, nestled in the home of Hollywood found itself confronted with the realities of the horrors of communism this week. National Field Coordinator Greg Neff set up a memorial to the victims of communist atrocities this past May Day, an international communist holiday celebrated every May 1st by marxists around the globe. Setting up 100 red flags, each representing a million people murdered by these...

The campus of George Mason University, a public research university consisting of nearly 40,000 students in Fairfax County Virginia and one of the leading sources of Austrian Theory economics professors in the country. was abuzz leading up to the return of CFACT's very own Gabriella Hoffman. Gabriella had last spoken to a rowdy GMU crowd a year ago and with such a great turnout this was inevitably a school she...

Independent news agency Epoch Times known for their hard hitting stories that other news sources will not touch recently produced a new documentary about ESG and the threats it poses to America called "The Shadow State." ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance score. This new woke system unites governments and corporations in a terrifying way, creating a global neo-fascist regime that chooses winners and losers based upo0n their adherence...

University of Houston-Downtown got seven new trees this week thanks to Dreissen Fellow La'Vonte Holt. This 40 acre urban university, a part of the University of Houston system, boasts a student population of over 15,000 students. In what was thought to be a relatively easy thing to get approved turned into a battle of perseverance but La'Vonte prevailed despite the City of Houston bureaucracy's best attempts to have nothing done...