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Climate ChangeEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedGovernmentPolitics
Your life under the Green New Deal
by Paul Driessen October 5, 2020Your lives, living standards and world would suffer dramatically under a Biden-AOC-Harris GND
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Governor Newsom Doubling Down to Dismantle the California Economy
by Ronald Stein December 19, 2019Governor Newsom just doubled down to increase inflation with actions to further reduce oil production and putting more electrical loads on a state that cannot generate enough electricity to meet its own needs.
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It’s targeting conservatives. Already, a few score congressional Republicans have fallen for it.
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Environment/Energy
Let’s Get Rid of the Ethanol Mandate, Not Reform It
by Bud Weinstein June 28, 2018In recent months, a number of proposals have been put forward to reduce the cost and complexity of complying with the RFS that requires American oil refiners and importers to blend biofuels, mainly corn ethanol, into gasoline and diesel fuel.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank (ep134) – Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Line Item Veto, CAFE Standards
by Donald Kendal April 6, 2018John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #134 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Illinois Policy Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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Environment/Energy
Tesla Battery, Subsidy and Sustainability Fantasies
by Paul Driessen July 26, 2017More subsidies from exhausted California taxpayers cannot compensate for hard realities
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Environment/Energy
OPEC Agrees to a Production Decrease, Prices Increase—But Could Be Just Right
by Marita Noon October 11, 2016At the end of September, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) surprised the markets by agreeing to a production cut.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Few, the Loud, the Anti-Fossil Fuel Crowd
by Marita Noon August 15, 2016Earlier this year, the usual group of suspects, led by well-known anti-fracking activist Bill McKibben, planned a “global wave of resistance” called BreakFree2016—scheduled to take place from May 3-15—on six continents.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kathleen Hartnett White: Exposing the Mad War on Energy
by H. Sterling Burnett August 8, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Kathleen Hartnett White, Director at the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Texas Public Policy Foundation. White joins the show to talk about the new book she co-authored with Stephen Moore titled Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy!
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Renewable Fuel Standard: “Set Up for Fraud”
by Marita Noon August 2, 2016Researcher Christine Lakatos and I, together, have produced the single largest body of work on green-energy crony-corruption. Our years of collaboration have revealed that those with special access and influence have cashed in on the various green-energy programs and benefitted from the mandates, rules, and regulations that accompany the huge scheme.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Why Waste Food to Replace Something We Already Have Too Much Of?
by Marita Noon May 23, 2016The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—also known as the ethanol mandate—was passed by Congress in 2005 and expanded in 2007. Regardless of market conditions, it required ever-increasing quantities of biofuel be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply—though the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does have the flexibility to make some adjustments based on conditions, such as availability and infrastructure.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Earth Day’s Anti-Fossil Fuel Focus Could Plunge Millions Into Green Energy Poverty
by Marita Noon April 19, 2016Friday, April 22, will mark the 47th Earth Day. You may think it is all about planting trees and cleaning up neighborhoods. But this year’s anniversary will be closer to its radical roots than, perhaps, any other since its founding in 1970. Considered the birth of the environmental movement, the first Earth Day took place during the height of America’s counterculture era. According to EarthDay.org, it gave voice to an “emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns on the front page.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Developing World Wants Natural Gas and Electricity, Hillary Clinton Sends Cookstoves
by Marita Noon March 30, 2016Hillary Clinton’s “trustworthiness” problem is fed by a long history of “varying credibility,” as a recent Politico story delineated, including cattle-futures trading, law firm billing records, muddled sniper fire recollections and e-mail use.