It’s Hot Out. Why Don’t Europeans Have Air Conditioners?
Writing for the Goodman Institute Health Blog, Devon Herrick observes that 90 percent of American homes have air conditioning, compared to 10 percent of European homes. “Why have Europeans shunned air conditioning? There are many reasons, some practical, some due to cost, some due to architecture while some is due to geography. Culture is also…
Wind and Solar Won Big, Says Robert Bryce. Here’s How Big.
“Big Wind and Big Solar won’t have to stop feeding at the federal trough for decades to come,” writes Robert Bryce in Forbes. In the gigantic bill just signed by the president: “[T]he tax credits for solar and wind are the most expensive energy-related provisions in the tax code. Between 2021 and 2031, the tax…
Climate Change Bonanza in New Law? Not Really
The “Inflation Reduction Act” is a political win on climate change for the Democrats, says James E. Hanley, but “on the actual policy level, the gains appear to be much more marginal than revolutionary.” Writing for the American Institute for Economic Research, the policy analyst says: “[M]any of these policies are continuations of old policies, rather…
An Arkansas City Dumped Recyclables into a Landfill—and Pretended It Didn’t
A judge has ordered the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to pay nearly $750,000 in citizen restitution for dumping into a landfill 95 percent of the materials that residents thought would be recycled. The city deceived its residents, the decision said, by continuing to accept waste from recycling bins, using trucks that advertised themselves as…