H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute.
“Elections have consequences,” former President Barack Obama once rightly said, and we are in an election cycle. In choosing whom to vote for, I always consider how closely a current officeholder has adhered to his or her constitutional oath while in office—has he or she voted as often as possible to limit the federal government to its constitutionally enumerated role?
States are requiring that producers of gasoline include “biofuels” in their product mix—fuels like ethanol, made from corn or other food crops. A new report from North Carolina’s John Locke Foundation says those rules are costing consumers by raising food prices. And it calls out the states that demand the most biofuels (one of them…
It’s an issue in Minnesota. Farmers are torn over whether to give up agricultural land in favor of solar power, writes Jeff Beach in InForum.com. He covered a panel on rural issues in Redwood Falls, Minn. “Siting large solar arrays, in particular, has become a hot issue in some greater Minnesota counties. “’We’re not talking…