by Jessica Towhey Herald and News The first attempt to turn Green New Deal proposals into legislation would overhaul 1 million public housing units to make them carbon neutral. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont introduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act that would use [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in The Daily Signal Some key House Republicans have chosen to support a Democratic bill called the Scientific Integrity Act. That nearly every House Democrat is a co-sponsor of the bill was apparently insufficient warning. Recently passed out of the House Science, [...]
by David Malakoff Science ...The draft document [of Trump's 'secret science plan], a version of which was leaked to The New York Times this week, supplements a 2018 data transparency proposal from EPA that was harshly criticized by scientific, environmental, and patient groups, prompting the agency to say it would issue a revision. Although EPA [...]
by Jack Dini Canada Free Press A study of the Sierra snow pack confirmed that more than a third of the air pollution affecting California originates in China “One of America’s great but untold environmental success stories is that we have made and continue to make great improvements in our air quality, thanks largely to [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com founder InsideSources.com President Trump is taking a well-deserved victory lap on his “energy dominance” policy. Speaking at the Shale Insight conference last week in Pittsburgh, Trump recounted a number of his energy policy accomplishments that have unleashed the American energy industry. Not only is America [...]
CEI Staff Competitive Enterprise Institute Blog Every fall, the leaves turn colors (in most parts of the country), those leaves (and temperatures) drop, and late October brings a celebration of the scary, the macabre, and the delicious. Kids and the kids-at-heart dress up in costume for Halloween with the goal of scaring a friend or [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer is preparing to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on a plan that would fast-track the elimination of nearly every gas-powered vehicle in the country. The Senate’s top Democrat wants to spend a massive amount of money enticing Americans to exchange their gas-guzzling vehicles [...]
by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com For the first time, The Weather Channel is getting directly involved in a political campaign – and some see it clearly as a move away from its mission. The Weather Channel is planning a special next month that will include recorded interviews with presidential candidates on the topic of "man-made climate [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing on Townhall.com While some have suggested that Mayor Pete Buttigieg “won” this week’s Democrat presidential debate, there is no question who, or rather what, was the loser. CNN and New York Times reporters did not ask any candidate any question about climate change and its offspring, the [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in Breitbart Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s former chief of staff recently revealed that the Green New Deal “wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” That possibly explains the weird similarity between it and the constitution ushered in by [...]
