This is one example of why the Founders created ‘checks and balances’. ========== Earlier this year the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule redefining the “waters of the United States” that are subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act. The two agencies recently finished collecting public comments on their draft rule and are deciding how to... Read more
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Watch Out for That Puddle
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Environment, US ConstitutionClimate Science Is Not Settled
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming“Its scientifically proven…” Ever heard that? ========== The idea that “Climate science is settled” runs through today’s popular and policy discussions. Unfortunately, that claim is misguided. It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse-gas emissions and the environment. But it also has inhibited the scientific and policy discussions that we need to have... Read more
Spontaneous Solar Combustion
August 24 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, The Left321? It would be funny if not so sad. =============== The sprawling Ivanpah solar power station in the Mojave Desert probably never would have been built without environmental activists and the subsidies and mandates they created, so there’s more than a little irony that BrightSource Energy, Google GOOGL +0.02% and another clean-tech utility are now getting an education in the... Read more
Australia Repeals Carbon Tax
July 17 | Posted by mrossol | EnvironmentWow. I did not expect this move. =========== CANBERRA, Australia—After almost a decade of heated political debate, Australia has become the world’s first developed nation to repeal carbon laws that put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions. In a vote that could highlight the difficulty in implementing additional measures to reduce carbon emissions ahead of global climate talks next year in Paris, Australia’s Senate... Read more
A Climate Activist Bags Himself
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingFor my friends on the left – the right is not the only ‘camp’ with ‘duds’. ============= In “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” a Hemingway story, a man goes big game hunting who should have stayed home. Tom Steyer maybe should have stayed home. The hedge-fund king has sought to propel himself to the top circle of Democratic money men and... Read more
Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingI commend Mr Rossiter for speaking up. ======== “Western policies seem more interested in carbon-dioxide levels than in life expectancy.” Every year environmental groups celebrate a night when institutions in developed countries (including my own university) turn off their lights as a protest against fossil fuels. They say their goal is to get America and Europe to look from space like Africa: dark,... Read more
