Kansas Collegian Says Cobalt Kills!
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In a cozy corner of Washburn University’s student union this spring, McKrae Masters staged a powerful first strike against one of the most overlooked injustices in today’s energy conversation. Despite no official group status on campus and a less-than-ideal location as a result, McKrae’s first tabling event could have easily gone unnoticed. However, thanks to a compelling visual display and powerful messaging, numerous students stopped by to learn the uncomfortable...
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Sunshine and Saplings: Florida Students Stand Up for Native Species
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Florida has always been home to a remarkably diverse biome. However, in recent decades, the Sunshine State—and the southeastern United States more broadly—has seen the introduction of numerous invasive species. Iguanas, Burmese pythons, Indochinese macaques, kudzu, and dozens of other non-native plants and animals now threaten the delicate balance of Florida’s ecosystems. To raise public awareness about Florida’s native species, CFACT collegians Luciano Di Piazza and Lilly Moran set out...
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Next Generation of Climate Realists Rises at CFACT’s Summer Eco-Summit
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Thanks to decades of climate alarmism, many young Americans today are more anxious than ever about the environment. From professors and news outlets to parents and peers, the message has been relentlessly reinforced: our world is burning—both figuratively and literally. Yet amid this constant barrage of fear-based messaging, a grassroots movement of climate realism is gaining momentum on college campuses nationwide. Like a forest reborn after a cleansing fire, a...
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CFACT’s Eco-Summit: Countering Climate Hysteria and Green New Deal by Investing in Young Leaders
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Several years ago, a young Swedish girl stepped onto the international scene. Greta Thunberg organized a weekly student strike to fight so-called climate change and urge the Swedish government to adopt pro-green policies. Thunberg was soon seen as the face of the new active and youthful environmentalist movement. However, in the subsequent years, it became clear that Thunberg’s climate activism wasn’t benign. It was aggressive and deeply rooted in the...
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Californian Collegians Plant Their Tree of Liberty
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On a bright and hopeful morning this April, students at the College of the Sequoias took another step toward practical environmental stewardship by planting a California Coastal Redwood sapling on campus—an effort designed not just to beautify the grounds, but to strengthen local ecosystems and support indigenous wildlife. The tree planting ceremony, held on April 21, was led by CFACT collegian Ricardo Garcia and members of the campus “Gaming Den”...
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Lights, Camera, Climate Hustle 2
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Typically, when college students gather around a big screen, it’s to watch a horror flick or maybe the big game. But the students pictured above were watching something far more relevant to their daily lives: CFACT’s documentary, Climate Hustle 2. Last week, after wrapping up the regular proceedings of his local Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter meeting, president and CFACT Collegian Jude Abernathy of the University of Tennessee hosted a...
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Students Take Flight: Raising Awareness Through Bird Watching
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This semester CFACT collegians from throughout the country took a break from their studies and hit the trails, binoculars in hand, with one shared mission: appreciating wildlife and sounding the alarm on the dangers posed by so-called "green" energy projects. In Georgia, collegian Bryce McConnell attending Kennesaw University, led an exploratory hike up Kennesaw Mountain on March 25, joined by fellow students — and one enthusiastic dog named Evie. While...
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Making Energy Great Again: Gabby Hoffman at William Paterson University
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In early April, CFACT collegians at William Paterson University in New Jersey hosted CFACT policy analyst Gabriella Hoffman for a rousing discussion on conservation, free-market environmentalism, and the importance of a grid powered by reliable energy sources. Led by their fearless leader campus representative Ariana Alonso, the group spent months planning for her arrival by tabling, passing out flyers, and posting ads on social media. Despite flashflood conditions outside the...
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The Path Forward For Real Environmentalism
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Joining the ranks of many fellow students before him, CFACT Collegian Sam Holmes of the University of Illinois recently took to pen and paper to author a strongly worded argument for nuclear power, an energy source destined to power the American grid for generations to come. Originally published in The Sentinel, you can read Sam's op-ed in full below: "As the country and world grapple with an ongoing pollution crisis...
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Alabama Student Speaks Up for Nuclear Energy
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Despite its obvious advantages when compared with other energy sources, nuclear energy has remained a stigmatized and often taboo topic in the Western world for decades now. However, with growing demands for affordable energy, public and bureaucratic sentiments are shifting in favor of this underutilized power source. Capitalizing on nuclear energy's newfound spotlight, CFACT collegian Connor Taylor of Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama recently penned an excellent op-ed calling for...
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CFACT’s Craig Rucker Joins Texas Students for Hog Hunt
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On Saturday, CFACT president Craig Rucker traveled to Houston to take part in a wild boar hunt with five Collegians from Sam Houston University. The event was designed to showcase how hunting is an important conservation tool utilized by wildlife officials to manage the Lone Star State’s burgeoning feral pig population. Staged at the private hunting grounds near Groveton, TX called “Boars All Day”, Rucker and the students headed out...
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Saving the Whales is All the Rage
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Once a cause championed by the left, the responsibility of protecting endangered species like the North American Right Whale has fallen to young conservatives and libertarians like CFACT collegians. Our students have been hard at work raising awareness throughout the country, steadily shifting the Overton window of public perception surrounding offshore wind and its deadly consequences. In Florida, collegian duo Lilly Moran and Luciano Di Piazza set up shop in...
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The State of Conservative Activism on College Campuses
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Once a haven of free expression and intelligent debate, college campuses are today the target of radical ideologues who impose their will unchecked. Indeed, American universities have been so thoroughly corrupted that they exist now as perverse monuments to ignorance and dogma. Walking in ideological lockstep, professors and administrators actively discriminate against students they deem to have “dangerous” ideas that might infect other students. Politically speaking, it is the Dark Ages...
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GA, D.C. Students Speak Up for Nuclear Power
by Nate Myers|17 March 2025
As this semester flies by, CFACT collegians throughout the country are busy fighting for a nuclear-powered future. Thanks in no small part to the efforts of CFACT, there has been a change of tone on nuclear energy in Washington as of late. Advances in safety protocols and waste disposal, coupled with fluctuating global energy prices, has reminded the powers at be that nuclear energy holds the potential for almost unlimited...
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Petitioning Against C02 Pipelines: CFACT Rallies American Youth
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While left-wing climate youth organizations shut down highways and disrupt peaceful events, CFACT’s campus representatives are hard at work raising awareness about important issues in a calm and civilized manner. Distributing informational flyers, stickers, and petition sheets, our students have engaged with hundreds of others across the nation in recent weeks, informing them about the insidious Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) liquid CO2 pipeline. For those unfamiliar, the pipeline project is...
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