by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe The agency that regulates rat poison must now turn to rat poisons Wednesday morning, CBS13 reported that the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters building in downtown Sacramento has been fighting a rat infestation for more than five weeks. Apparently [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel Governments own almost a fourth of the land in the United States, mostly federal, mostly in the West. We often wonder how much is enough, and worry about the constant growth in government ownership. Hundreds of millions are spent every year [...]
by Richard J. Trzupek The Epoch Times On June 18, The Associated Press published a story under the byline of Seth Borenstein and Nicky Forster with the troubling headline “US Air Quality is Slipping After Years of Improvement.” While there are grains of truth in both the headline and the story that follows, there’s also [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe A new rate system charges residential users higher rates between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. On June 1st, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District began charging Sacramento electricity users and ratepayers a new rate system that charges residential users higher [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel The National Wildlife Refuge System began modestly in 1903, but today it is the largest wildlife conservation program in the world. It includes 562 refuges, totaling more than 150 million acres, in all 50 states and numerous islands from the Caribbean [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Financial Post The bottom line is that there is no physics or physical evidence that 5G is anything to worry about Faster 5G wireless networks are here. And that’s going to be great for our communications needs and the economy. [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe California gas tax increases July 1, and next year, and the year after On July 1, just in time for summer road trips, California’s gas tax will go up another 5.6 cents. The increase occurs even as the rest [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe ‘Because issues are too complex for the public to understand’ The Omnibus Resources Trailer Bill for 2019-20, contains various statutory changes “necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2019.” Yet it contains language exempting a commission of the California [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel I often write about where things come from, especially products we use in our daily lives, and what they are made of. No consumer products are made out of thin air. They all require manufacturing from raw materials that are either [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transferred a top official who critics see as a key resistor of President Donald Trump’s agenda, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Christopher Grundler, director of EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, will be moving to another agency division in early August. [...]
