Paul Chesser
My friend Kathy Hoekstra at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan has a great report about how unions, who are losing members in droves, are creating labor disputes out of thin air and engaging in new pressure tactics…
National sport championship games such as the World Series or Super Bowl often bring out the mayors or governors of the contenders’ cities for bets on their home teams, usually putting up a measure of food fare that their regions…
Scrutinize the realities of costly and inefficient wind energy projects (and most alternative energy projects, for that matter) in public spheres where tough questions can be asked — like in court — and it’s amazing what you will learn. Such…
The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, and among those chosen for best documentary was “Gasland,” the Josh Fox propagandizer about the alleged dangers and abuses by the natural gas industry. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that an…
Several new Republican governors have assumed office since President Obama’s election, with Tea Party hopes that waves would be made. New Jersey’s Chris Christie has been hard to top for showmanship, and the Blue State victories of Scott Walker in…
The new House is expected to pass a bill that prevents EPA from regulating greenhouse gases via the Clean Air Act. Today Politico examines the prospects for passage in the Senate. This may be a fruitless exercise considering the likelihood…
As Chris Horner blogged yesterday, the Environmental Law Center at American Tradition Institute (where I am executive director) has requested under the state’s Freedom of Information Act that the University of Virginia turn over documents and emails related to public grants…
Thanks in part to new House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, 100-watt incandescent light bulbs will no longer be sold in the U.S. after Jan. 1, 2012, with a ban of 75-, 60- and 40-watt bulbs to follow…
They all support EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gases, even though that circumvents the citizens’ right to have their elected representatives make U.S. laws. More on the Obama Administration overreach and his crony corporatists support at the National Legal and Policy…
They’re not all predictions contained within this year, some time needed to pass to determine whether they came true, but FoxNews.com has “Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts” posted today. Most are climate- (but not necessarily warming-)related, and the first is my…
