EARTH DAY: Three big signs the climate movement is running out of gas

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This Earth Day, the climate movement will once again make their chicken little cries, but the uproar is a far cry from recent years past

By Daniel Turner Fox News

Published April 22, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Former White House chief of staff (and potential 2028 presidential hopeful) Rahm Emanuel is associated with the phrase: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." His point was parlaying voters’ short-term anxiety into long-term political gain.

Yet with a gallon of gasoline averaging more than four dollars in early April, the normal deafening chorus from the environmental movement has fallen to a dull murmur – even in the lead-up to Earth Day, their holiest of high holidays. With the world gripped by an energy crisis, the relative quiet from climate groups is an acknowledgement that their beliefs are no solution.

Consider California Governor Gavin Newsom. Last July, he declared that his state’s, "economic growth comes not in spite of clean energy but because of it." Now, he is including his administration’s role to "responsibly increase oil production" in a press release.

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