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Federal Government Rejects Effort to Ban Bear Baiting on Federal Lands in Idaho and Wyoming
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked the U.S. District Court in Idaho to dismiss a lawsuit filed by environmental groups demanding federal authorities ban black bear hunting using bait in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming. -
Animal Welfare and Economics
Opinion -budget-tax-news, environment-climate-news, Editorial -Meat is unlikely to be banned until many more Americans first become vegetarians. -
Trump Administration Proposes Opening Alaskan National Petroleum Reserve to Oil and Gas Production
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration proposed opening most of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil and gas production, reversing an Obama-era plan that closed much of the reserve. -
Nebraska County Puts Hold on Wind Facility Development
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Hamilton County, Nebraska Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to place a six-month hold on all applications for wind turbine projects in the county. -
Climate Science Was Corrupted, Says Award Winning Climate Scientist
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Politics has corrupted climate science, with scientists in the field ignoring evidence a climate crisis is not occurring. -
Partners in Liberty: The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was founded in 1985 to promote a positive, alternative voice on environmental and development issues within the United States and internationally. -
California Cities Embrace ‘Community-Choice Electricity’
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Officials in Irvine, California are inviting four other Orange County municipalities to join their city in a comprehensive government-run electric power management scheme known as a community choice aggregation or community choice energy. -
Wisconsin Conservationists, Counties Fight Wind Energy Transmission Line
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Conservation groups and counties in Wisconsin have filed separate lawsuits to block construction within the state of a proposed multistate transmission line intended to deliver electric power from out-of-state wind farms to utilities in 12 states. -
Wind, Biofuel Win, Solar and Electric Vehicles Lose in Year-End Appropriations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Supporters of extending a slew of tax credits for green energy technologies had to settle for considerably less than they lobbied for in the omnibus appropriations measure passed before Congress adjourned in December. -
High Coal Demand Expected Through at Least 2024, Says International Energy Agency
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The International Energy Agency’s 2019 report on global coal usage says coal demand has risen since 2017 and is expected to remain stable or rise slightly for the next five years. -
New Hampshire Rejects Participation in Transportation Climate Initiative
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire has announced the state will not participate in the Transportation and Climate Initiative, a regional association of state governments pledging to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector. -
Federal Court Rules U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Responsible for Damages from Houston Area Flooding
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A Federal court has ruled in favor of property owners who sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for damages to property resulting from the overflow of reservoirs designed and managed by the Army Corps, located in suburbs west of Houston, Texas. -
Trump Proposes National Environmental Policy Act Reform
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration is proposing sweeping reforms to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act which provides federal regulatory environmental oversight of major infrastructure projects. -
Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Oregon Youths’ Climate Lawsuit
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed a lawsuit brought on behalf of 21 youths in an attempt to force the federal government to impose limits on fossil-fuel use. -
California Solar Home Law Likely to Price Many Out of the Market
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A new building code has taken effect in California requiring all newly constructed homes statewide to be solar-powered. -
Bezos-Backed General Fusion Raises $100 Million in New Financing
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Nuclear fusion startup General Fusion has raised more than $100 million in new funding towards the design and construction of an experimental power plant to demonstrate its fusion power technology. -
Wisconsin Bans Violent Pipeline and Energy Infrastructure Protests
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin signed into law a bipartisan proposal to make it a state felony to trespass on or damage oil or gas pipelines or chemical, renewable fuel, or water infrastructure. -
Partners in Liberty: The American Legislative Exchange Council
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The American Legislative Exchange Council is America’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets, and federalism. -
Partners in Liberty: Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a Michigan-based free-market think which, when considering whether to take up a policy issue in the state, asks, “If not Mackinac, who?” -
Misguided Youth Protesters Have It Wrong — the World Is Actually Getting Better and Better
Opinion -environment-climate-news, budget-tax-news, Editorial -All the good news is likely to depress them beyond recovery. -
Regulators Thwart Ohio Utility’s Price Hike for Proposed Solar Facilities
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio denied American Electric Power permission to charge customers for two solar-energy projects in southwest Ohio, one of which would be the largest renewable-energy facility in the state. -
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Move to Block Governor’s RGGI Plan
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Legislators in Pennsylvania are trying to block Governor Tom Wolf's plan to have the state join the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. -
Federal Science Panel Rejects Stricter Air Particulate Standards
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee determined air quality standards for fine particulate matter are sufficiently protective of the public health and do not need to be tightened further. -
North Carolina Governor Accused of ‘Pay-for-Permit’ Scheme
Opinion -environment-climate-news -North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper improperly used his office to secure $57.8 million for a fund under his control in return for granting construction permits along the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a report requested by the state legislature concludes.
