pollution
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Traffic lights are never really “green.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Electric Cars Are Not “Zero-Emission Vehicles”
by James Agresti September 7, 2022In reality, electric cars emit substantial amounts of pollutants and may be more harmful to the environment than conventional cars.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Correct or Cancel Mom’s Grocery Bag Misinformation
by Paul Driessen May 1, 2022Misleading claims on organic food grocery bags deceive shoppers on bees and pesticides.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
A Tax on Methane May Appeal to Some – But Won’t Actually Reduce Emissions
by Bud Weinstein February 8, 2022The proposed methane tax is a solution in search of a problem. Let’s put an end to the idea once and for all.
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Trillions of pieces of plastic are creating huge garbage patches in the world’s oceans. One company’s efforts to do something about this problem can lead us to rethink some perceived economic wisdom.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyPolitics
Another Answer to Rep. Mike Levin’s Attack on Kevin Dayaratna at Congressional Hearing
by Freedom Pub Editors February 13, 2019The proposed “solutions” for greenhouse gas emissions have very little in common with the solutions for tackling water and air pollution.
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Environment/Energy
Cloning California Car Mandates Will Cost Coloradans Dearly
by Tim Benson and Sen. Kevin Lundberg August 9, 2018In June, Colorado’s term-limited Democrat governor, John Hickenlooper, signed an executive order directing his bureaucrats in the state’s public health department to adopt California’s low-emissions vehicles (LEV) standards
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Here’s Why Congress and Think Tanks Think a Carbon Tax Would be Disastrous
by H. Sterling Burnett June 6, 2018House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., recently introduced a resolution that explains why a carbon tax would harm the economy and why it should not be enacted
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
The Truth About EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s ‘Scandals’
by Justin Haskins March 1, 2017Scott Pruitt told CPAC on Saturday that he wants to roll back suffocating Obama-era environmental regulations and return the agency to environmental sanity.
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Federal air quality rules must be based on science – not used to stifle energy and industry.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Refuting Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Fact Free Video on Pollution
by Isaac Orr November 29, 2016This blog post is a rebuttal to an alarmingly fact-free video made by Professor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yes, he is one—I can’t make this stuff up. I’d suggest you watch the…
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Trump supports this proven and safe technology to develop America’s enormous oil and natural gas deposits, create millions of jobs and generate billions in revenues. However, his stance on local veto power is the same as Hillary Clinton’s, though she would also try to regulate fracking into oblivion.
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The recent release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 600-page methane rule was the latest skirmish in the war on methane, but the next battle will be felt at your supermarket. According to EPA, the oil and gas industry is the top methane offender, but livestock — especially cattle — is a close number-two, making ranchers and their cattle radical environmentalists’ next targets.