FEE: ‘A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed by the Coronavirus.’ CEI: Regulation, not offshore outsourcing, is hindering supply of medical equipment. BBC: As coronavirus goes up, air pollution goes down.
By H. Sterling Burnett I recently wrote about the impossibility of relying on giant storage batteries to enable the nation to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Physics tells us batteries can store only a minuscule amount of the power we would need for backup. A recent Heartland Institute study by Paul Driessen gives us …
A new anti-capitalist movement: ‘Degrowth’. The success and failure of Earth Day 1970, by Steve Hayward. Forest Service returns to quick fire suppression policy due to coronavirus. New GMO rice resists high heat, produces more grain.
Excerpts from Joe Bast’s remembrance of Fred Singer, who died April 6 at the age of 95. On the Heartland Institute website: Fred Singer was a giant in the field of climate science. His careers in government, the academy, and then in think tanks gave him a breadth of knowledge and experience that mere specialists …
By Max Falque. The managing director of ICREI, the International Center for Research on Environmental Issues, Max Falque is based in Aix-en-Provence, France. He tells the story of how he changed from a French bureaucrat to a proponent of environmental protection using private property and markets. From his essay, “Why Did I Become a Free-Market …
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Angela Logomasini of the Competitive Enterprise Institute: As billions of desert locusts swarm through East Africa and into Asia threatening the food supply of millions, environmental activists want to ban and regulate the only effective tools to stop it: pesticides. * * * Activist campaigns to ban pesticides around the world mean the many …
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