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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Sackett vs. EPA: Why Does It Matter?
In May, the Supreme Court told the Environmental Protection Agency it couldn’t regulate lands distant from navigable waters as “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Given recent history, this was a momentous decision. Ryan M. Yonk and Ethan Yang, writing for Law & Liberty, have analyzed the subject more deeply. Until…
Was the Court’s EPA Decision 9-0 or 5-4? Here’s the Answer
In a Twitter feed, Jonathan Wood of PERC untangles the confusion over the Supreme Court’s May 25 decision regarding the definition of the “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). The entire Supreme Court reined in the EPA. A majority (5) did so more boldly than the rest (4). From Wood’s Twitter thread: “So why was…
Friday Links: Getting $400 Billion out the Door, Fast-Rising Wind Turbine Prices, and More
- Energy Department in a hurry to lend $400 billion by the 2024 election.
- Tired of your slow-moving dishwasher? It’s going to get worse, for a lot of appliances.
- Wind turbine prices are up 38 percent over the past two years.
- There is no such thing as a “green” energy transition. Renewables can’t do what fossil fuels do, engineer says.
- And there’s more.
How Concerned Should We Be about “Forever” Chemicals?
Industries such as food packaging are nervously trying to get rid of PSAS or “forever chemicals,” as the EPA takes its first step in regulating them. April Reese writes in Waste Dive: “PFAS—a group of thousands of synthetic chemicals once prized for their resistance to oil, grease, water and heat—have been used in hundreds of…
Are Wetlands Navigable Water? The Conflict Continues
A Texas district court has rejected, for the time being, the EPA’s definition of the waters of the United States (“WOTUS”). The EPA’s latest definition went into force nationally on March 20 but the announcement explicitly excluded Texas and Idaho. Idaho was omitted because the Supreme Court is considering the case of Michael and Chantelle…