News of the Day:
- Setting a record this year . . .for coal!
- How to bypass resistance to renewable energy—pass a law!
- Keeping an eye on the billions, (this time for EV buses).
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Category: ENVIRONMENT
N.Y. Attorney General Goes After Pepsico, Not Just Trump
Yes, Attorney General Letitia James doesn’t just have former president Trump in her sights. Now it’s PepsiCo. Why? According to a survey of waste along the Buffalo River, 17 percent of the plastic waste was packaging from Pepsico products. (These may include packages by PepsiCo’s subsidiaries Frito-Lay and Frito-Lay North America. They too are named…
EVs Need Minerals but Biden Keeps Blocking Mines
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…
An Appalling Dismissal of a Nobel Scientist
The Washington Post disparages a Nobel Prize winner, John Clauser, for saying “there is no climate crisis.” The article by Maxine Joselow reveals two serious examples of inappropriate innuendo in covering a conference on climate change that featured John Clauser. She chides him for taking advantage of his Nobel prize-winning status: “His recent denial 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.”
And more!