Many minerals that are key to building electric vehicles are produced outside the United States. But the Biden administration keeps halting or preventing mining projects. At the Heartland Institute, Miles Pollard and Austin Gae review the current state of mining projects. (Direct quotes follow.) In January, the Environmental Protection Agency blocked development of a proposed…
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Is Renewable Energy in Better Shape Than We Thought?
Offshore wind power is faltering, local resistance to “Big Wind and Big Solar” is mounting, and electric vehicles are clearly struggling. But Ed Ballard of the Wall Street Journal says that policy-makers, including the International Energy Agency, are missing the enormity of the investment in alternative energy. “Last year, more than four-fifths of the world’s…
New Delhi: “As Temperatures Go Down, Pollution Goes Up.”
Did you know that in parts of India the air pollution is so bad in winter that schools close? An amazing story by Vibhuti Agarwal in the Wall Street Journal explains: In New Delhi, as temperatures cool around November trapping filthy air over the Indian capital, parents say their children eagerly await ‘pollution holidays.’ ….
How to Deal with Hog Waste
North Carolina is the second-largest hog producing state in the United States. Thus, disposal of hog waste is a constant concern and contentious issue. In a new paper, Kelly Lester of the John Locke Foundation describes what has failed and what might work. The Failures: “Regulatory Overreach. Government regulations, rather than addressing the root of…
Weekend Links: ‘Carbon Tariff,’ Offshore Wind Fizzles, More Subsidies
- Republican senator Bill Cassidy proposes a “carbon tariff”—a tax on imports of products that emit a lot of carbon dioxide. A step on a slippery slope, says Travis Fisher at Cato.
- Dept of Energy subsidizes utility projects by buying their power—to spur transmission of “clean energy.”
- East coast offshore wind gets more pushback.
- Environmentalists are worried that the East coast pushback is serious—a “moment of reckoning.”
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So Public Power Will Solve Maine’s Problems?
An unusual battle is unfolding in Maine. Voters will decide on Nov. 7 whether the state can buy the state’s two for-profit utilities and turn them into a publicly owned utility, “Pine Tree Power.” (Currently, the for-profits are state-regulated monopolies.) The conflict is extraordinary because it involves many claims of savings, climate success, and eminent…