Climate alarmists’ response when the facts don’t fit the narrative they’ve been pushing for two decades is to suppress the facts by killing the messengers. Today you kill bearers of inconvenient truths not with an ax to the back of the neck but by de-platforming them. Climate alarmists are the true science deniers, promoting model…
Wisconsin Could Teach California about (the Negatives of) Recycling Food Waste
Yesterday I posted an item about California’s effort to recycle food scraps. Now, here’s a post about food composting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the city of Madison. In sum: it’s very challenging. Charlie Hildebrand and Riley Sumner write in Wisconsin Watch: “Before it was ultimately forced to shut down, UW-Madison’s composting program went…
Families Are Saving Food Scraps in California. Why?
California is gearing up to carry out its 2016 organics recycling law. Under that law, families must separate not just recyclables from trash, but food waste from recyclables—so it can be composted. They will be fined if they don’t do it by 2024. Some of the compost is sold to farmers. However, according to Gosia…
Opponents of Manchin’s EPA Review Bill May Have Hurt Themselves
Environmental activists recently knocked down Senator Joe Manchin’s effort to relax permitting rules for major energy projects. That will slow down fossil fuel projects, but renewable energy projects—their darlings—face long delays, too. “The demise of permitting reform reveals that many people within the environmentalist movement are undermining the nation’s emissions goals in the name of…
Why People Aren’t Using Their Dishwashers Much Anymore
The simple answer, says Christian Britschgi at Reason, is dishwashers take too long to wash dishes—nearly two-and-a-half hours, reported one survey in 2018. And that’s due to federal energy standards that President Trump tried to relax. The Biden administration went back to the previous rules. Says Britschgi, those regulations “limit the amount of water and…
Growing Backlash against Solar and Wind Limits Renewables Expansion
From Robert Bryce in RealClearEnergy: “The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least eight Ohio counties have implemented…