Opinion
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Federal Court Dismisses New York City’s Climate Lawsuit
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge dismissed New York City’s (NYC) lawsuit against five major oil companies to force them to help pay the city’s costs of dealing with climate change. -
California Voters Recall State Senator Over Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In a recall election, California voters removed a state senator who voted to raise the state’s gas tax last year. -
Coal Leasing Program Does Not Need Climate Review, Federal Court Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal appeals court rejected environmentalists’ arguments the U.S. Department of Interior must evaluate potential climate change impact when leasing federal land for coal mining. -
Texas Supreme Court Strikes Down Plastic Bag Ban
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Texas Supreme Court struck down the City of Laredo’s ban on plastic bags, in a decision likely to overturn similar ordinances in nearly a dozen other Texas municipalities. -
Idaho Gains Control of Its Water Pollution Program
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached an agreement with the government of Idaho allowing the state to manage its own water pollution program. -
Manufacturing and Trump’s Deregulation Agenda
Opinion -Editorial -During Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, he made advancing American manufacturing a foundation of his economic platform and promised to reduce the sector’s federal regulatory burden. -
Luxembourg and EU-US Trade Relations
Opinion -Editorial -It was amusing, yesterday, to see the President of the United States with his counter-part from the EU, a Luxembourgian. -
Climate Alarmists 0 for 2 in Court—Time to End the Lawsuit Charade
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #293 -
What You Need to Know About EPA’s New Boss Andrew Wheeler
Opinion -Editorial -Former Administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marked the end of a productive but tumultuous period for the agency. -
Will Teacher Unions Imitate Southern Segregationists?
Opinion -Editorial -The Supreme Court’s Janus ruling is bringing out the worst from the defeated Left. -
Pruitt Out, Wheeler in at EPA
Opinion -environment-climate-news -After months of increasing scrutiny, and under mounting pressure from Capitol Hill, Scott Pruitt resigned his position as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
Delaware Assembly Passes Offshore Oil Ban
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Delaware’s General Assembly passed two bills seeking to restrict or ban offshore drilling in the state’s territorial waters and in federal waters off its coast. -
The Next Ice Age
Opinion -Editorial -While most people still worry about global warming, I am more concerned about the next Ice Age. -
FDA’s Anti-Smoking Strategy Puts Lives At Risk
Opinion -Editorial -The agency unveiled a two-pronged approach to reduce smoking. -
NASA: Sometimes A Little Government – Saves Us All A Whole Lot Of Government
Opinion -Editorial -I’m incessantly harangued by pin heads – about everything. -
U.S. House Passes Resolution Opposing Carbon Dioxide Tax
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution “expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy,” by vote of 229 to 180. -
Judge Rejects Challenge to Missouri Amendment Convention Resolution
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Cole County, Missouri Circuit Court Judge Jon Beetem dismissed a lawsuit challenging the General Assembly’s May 2017 approval of a resolution calling on Congress to convene an convention drafting an amendment to impose federal fiscal restraints. -
Oklahoma Becomes First State to Manage Coal Ash Disposal
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Oklahoma became the first state in the nation to receive approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to manage its program to dispose of coal ash. -
Carbon Tax: The Push is On… and its Coming from Republicans
Opinion -Editorial -On Friday (7/20/18), a Congressional Resolution introduced by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and West Virginia Rep. David McKinley condemning a carbon tax passed, mainly on a party line vote of 229 – 180. -
Some Confusions of Language in Economic Thought
Opinion -Editorial -Fifty years ago, in 1968, Austrian (and Austrian school) economist Friedrich A. Hayek published a monograph called The Confusion of Language in Political Thought. -
The Hidden War: Trump’s Battle Against Regulation
Opinion -Editorial -Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, once said “the chief business of the American people is business.” -
Streamlining the Future: Reducing Resistance to Broadband Everywhere
Opinion -Editorial -Next week, the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to move forward on the ''STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act." -
Luddite Eco-imperialists Claim to be Virtuous
Opinion -Editorial -Uber-organic campaign enshrines primitive agriculture and malnutrition as human rights. -
Heartland Weekly: Anti-Carbon Tax Resolution Passed
Opinion -Editorial -Week of July 16, 2018