Activists for renewables are horrified that rural America isn’t eager to have wind turbines or solar panels as part of its landscape. They’re blaming fossil-fuel industry “Astro-turf” groups for stirring up rural resistance. In December, in a (paywalled) New Yorker piece, “From Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution,” Bill McKibben describes the work to be done…
Author: Jane Shaw Stroup
On Recycling, Don Boudreaux Makes No Concessions
Writing on Cafe Hayek, Don Boudreaux exchanges words with an eager college student who thinks everyone should recycle as much as possible. First, says Boudreaux, he himself does recycle: “As I write to you I’m wearing clothing that I’ve worn before; I recycled my jeans and underwear in the recycling machines at my home known as…
How NEPA Is Strangling Our Economy
Noah Smith lays it all out on his Substack blog. His roundup of links to recent articles on the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) is massive. Here’s one link, to Jerusalem Demsas in the Atlantic. She points out that delays from environmental reviews under NEPA aren’t limited to power plants or highways: “NEPA and similar…
A Carbon Tax? Not So Fast
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, usually considered skeptical about taking action on climate change, has issued a paper called “It Pollutes, So Tax it: Need We Say More about Carbon Dioxide?” That would seem to recommend a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and to an extent it does. But the paper by Peter Hartley of…
Millions Here and Millions There, Federal Money for Green Interests Starts to Add Up
Special (green) interests can range from renewable energy to recycling. The money is flowing to companies, municipalities, airports, you name it. In October, the Biden administration gave school districts $913 million to buy new buses (mostly electric). In addition, it put $27 million into electrifying buses and equipment at airports. (This after awarding $300 million…
Ron DeSantis, Conservationist
In addition to being known for successful state management, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has a good environmental record, writes James B. Meigs in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. His article is titled “Ron DeSantis, Conservationist.” Although not a free market environmentalist, DeSantis has withstood special interests, especially sugar growers; increased state funding for dealing with fertilizer…