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Biden’s kamikaze climate plan for the US economy
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in The Hill
This year’s United Nations Climate Week was more revelatory than the usual. Beyond its prosaic handwringing about supposed planetary doom, four distinct disclosures related to China should cause concern.
What the world really needs
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
America is heavily populated by “experts” who want to tell everyone “what this country needs,” or even “what the world needs.” We are surrounded, indeed inundated, by experts at every turn, people who know what others should be doing, and who seek to decide nearly every aspect of our lives, because they are the ones who know.
Gavinomics: CA’s Electricity Prices More than 2X National Average – Going Up 13% Again
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe
The California Utilities Commission just granted Pacific Gas and Electric a 13% rate hike – ostensibly to pay for under grounding power lines. Because Gov. Gavin Newsom appoints the commissioners to the CPUC, this is “Gavinomics.” Expect the other utilities to hike the rates as well.
Researchers reveal EV industry can still be linked to child labor-fueled mines
by Thomas Catenacci, Fox News
Minerals produced from artisanal African mines that may employ child labor continue to be used in base components of batteries, including those potentially used in electric vehicles (EVs), according to a new report shared with Fox News Digital. The American Energy Institute (AEI), the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate jointly assembled the report, which draws from existing studies and establishes that child labor likely continues to fuel EV production worldwide.
Protecting valuable resources, again and again
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
When Americans hear about a crisis, their instinct is to spring into action, to do something right away. Do whatever it takes, as Mayor Shinn in “The Music Man” says, “to prevent this dire happening from… uhm… happening.” What they don’t do first, as a rule, is pause to ask exactly what the crisis is, what caused it and what will happen if action is not taken. There will be time to sort all these details out later, they reason. But for now, we must act because this is a crisis! Now!
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