A May 31 New York Times column by Robert McFarlane, author of Is a River Alive?, celebrates the demolition of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in northern California, thus providing some “400 miles of restored habitat for salmon…
Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely. Following the governor’s 2020 executive order that banned the sales of…
President Trump says he wants to “go back, probably, to a 2020 standard” as regards federal mandatory miles-per-gallon edicts — the latter being the right word because it’s the honest word. A “standard” is an objective value of some kind, used…
An interesting story broke the other day about Hino Motors — a subsidiary of Toyota that makes commercial vehicles such as heavy trucks and diesel engines — “defrauding” the United States because its diesel engines “emitted” more than the regulatory…
Under EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, the freeze on unspent climate grants has put a spotlight on the Biden administration’s reckless green spending. Among the most questionable allocation is a $2 billion payout to Power Forward Communities, a coalition now facing…
The thing about tariffs is they’re just taxes by another name — and we know who ends up paying them. We do. President Trump’s imposition of new tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China are in fact taxes imposed on manufacturing, small businesses…
In its first hearing, the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) cited “hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars wasted on improper payments and fraud.” The DOGE revelations include $20 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, money the EPA bosses…
The American people made their voices heard on Nov. 5 by rejecting the Biden–Harris administration’s net-zero climate agenda. Instead, they resoundingly chose a future marked by energy abundance and true conservation. Earlier this month, President-elect Trump unveiled his three cabinet…
California political figures should not be permitted to impose their regulatory preferences on American consumers. Consumers who should have the freedom and latitude to select the cars that best suit their particular needs. At least that is what free-market activists…
