Americans for Tax Reform had these factoids ready for release when today’s Census news about state Congressional reapportionment hit: An updated study by Americans for Tax Reform compared states gaining[...]
The Wolverine State received the worst, but not unexpected, news from the Census data released earlier this week. From the New York Times: While every other state in the nation[...]
Or I guess you could say her French fans are victims, which in keeping with how the media likes to report these things, makes it more catastrophic and therefore more newsworthy.
Economics · Environment/Energy
Following up on a Chris Horner blog post this morning about rent-seeker efforts to save their government cash cows, the carbon offset companies — after the shutdown of voluntary emissions trading[...]
Clearly there is an organized effort by the Left to discredit Fox News’ “hard news” reporting credibility — most recently on global warming. Last week Media Matters and others criticized[...]
The UN Frame-Up Convention on Climate Confabbery in Cancun concluded last week, with an agreement to talk more in South Africa next year about how hopeless it is to write[...]
Environment/Energy · Regulation
Well, fracking, well — environmentalists have suffered an embarrassing loss. Rather than extracting blood, water, and a couple of limbs from Texas-based Cabot Oil & Gas over contaminated water supplies[...]
Environment/Energy · Regulation
Here’s yet another example of nanny-state government know-it-alls who unnecessarily coerce an industry into behaviors simply because they can. This time it’s in the name of energy efficiency, which the[...]
Earlier this year in posts for Heartland’s FreedomPub blog and elsewhere, I tracked how the politically- and presidentially-loved community lender ShoreBank received favorable treatment from regulators that other similar institutions[...]
The Toronto Globe and Mail yesterday reported how vast discoveries of new North American energy sources could “reflect the beginning of the end for U.S. dependence on Mideast oil.” According[...]
While delegates at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change mingled and planned the redistribution of the world’s wealth, my friends at Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow — last year’s[...]
Economics · Environment/Energy · Politics
As House Republicans have planned to assume control in January, the biggest debate about chairmanships has been over who will manage the Energy and Commerce Committee, with Rep. Fred Upton[...]
The Washington Times today delivers all the wailing from the Left over House Republicans’ decision to eliminate the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which Democrat leaders launched in[...]
Cap-and-trade is said to be dead, and the general belief I’m hearing out of D.C. is that a national Renewable Electricity Standard (introduced in a bill co-sponsored by Democrat Sen.[...]
That’s what Eric Carlson, president of Carbonfund, said last week. I explain in a post for the National Legal and Policy Center how he not-so-politely asked the U.S. (an “800-pound[...]
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