.. Over the past eight decades, Congress has gradually relinquished its lawmaking role and left it to the administrative state, said a conservative senator at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday. “Many Americans now feel that they are not in control of their own government,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said during an event hosted at the … Continue reading These three bills would permanently Drain The Swamp
Category: Environment
One of the trickiest set of issues for defenders of free enterprise is environmental concerns, especially large-scale ones like climate change. What makes more sophisticated environmentalist arguments so challenging and so interesting is that they often use ideas and terms that are frequently used to describe economic systems. For example, both natural and social systems … Continue reading Why Environmentalism Flunks Basic Economics
There’s been a small gaggle of news stories about a new paper by Iselin Medhaug and colleagues in the May 4 issue of Nature that concludes that climate models are just fine and their sensitivity to carbon dioxide is spot-on. If one adjusts the data observed during the balance of the “hiatus” in warming, by filling in hot … Continue reading How climate activists fake science, in three graphs
.. President Donald Trump has promised to make a “big decision” in the next two weeks on the Paris climate accord after promising to “cancel” the agreement during the campaign last year. Fundamentally, the Paris Agreement is a costly and ineffective approach to addressing global warming. There are compelling economic, environmental, and legal reasons for … Continue reading Time for Trump to Fulfill Promise and Withdraw From Paris Climate Agreement
.. On April 22, 2016, the United States and 170 other countries signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which seeks “to combat climate change and adapt to its effects.” This international measure commits signatories to shift their energy industries away from fossil fuels that cause “greenhouse gas” emissions, and toward renewal resources like wind … Continue reading Why Trump Can and Should Pull Out of Paris Climate Change Agreement
What is done by executive power can be undone by executive power. Former President Barack Obama began to learn that lesson this Wednesday when President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to conduct a review of all Antiquities Act designations larger than 100,000 acres over the past 30 years. Specifically, … Continue reading The First Step in Revoking Obama’s Land Grab
In another move to free up domestic energy supplies, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at lifting the Obama administration’s offshore drilling restrictions. For decades, bad policies have blocked access to America’s abundance of domestic resources, yet America has still managed to be a global energy leader. Trump’s executive order, “Implementing an … Continue reading Trump Opens Doors on Oil Exploration, but Deeper Reforms Still Needed
HELP AMERICANS FOR A BETTER ECONOMY DEFEAT THE LIBERAL GREEN AGENDA! SIGN YOUR PETITION TO CONGRESS! TELL THEM TO PASS THE REINS ACT NOW! EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - REVIEW OF DESIGNATIONS UNDER THE ANTIQUITIES ACT By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of … Continue reading FULL TEXT: Trump Executive Order on the Antiquities Act
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trump administration officials will likely meet in May to reach a final decision on whether the United States should stay in the Paris climate deal, after holding an initial meeting on Thursday at the White House, an administration source said. The group of advisers, which includes Secretary of State … Continue reading Trump advisers likely to meet in days on Paris climate pact
Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom. Let’s take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today’s environmentalists’ predictions. In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived, the late George Wald, a Nobel laureate biology professor at Harvard University, predicted, “Civilization will end within 15 … Continue reading Here’s How Wrong Past Environmental Predictions Have Been
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