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Massive Offshore Wind Boondoggle Dead In Water
By Audrey Streb A massive offshore wind project set to be built off the New Jersey coast will be abandoned…
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Scientists develop rice that can withstand heat and drought
“Researchers have developed new rice varieties that are resistant to drought and heat—possibly useful for mitigating some of the consequences…
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Hydrogen, the so-called ‘fuel of the future,’ endangered the future of a company that bought into the hype
People claim hydrogen is the “fuel of the future,” so Air Products invested a ton of money on hydrogen. That…
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Trump Administration Greenlights Massive Coal Mining Plan
By Audrey Streb The Department of the Interior (DOI) approved a plan Friday that will allow for massive amounts of…
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Trump Admin Puts California On Notice: No More War On Appliances
By Audrey Streb The Department of Justice (DOJ) is threatening to take legal action against California regulators if they implement…
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Supreme Court limits scope of NEPA law that has been used to endlessly delay infrastructure projects
“The US Supreme Court has limited the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), ruling that federal agencies are…
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Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With Woman Who Says She Lost Job For Not Being Gay
By Katelynn Richardson The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a woman on Thursday who claimed her employer discriminated against her…
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U.S. factory output falls due to higher tariffs
“U.S. factory activity contracted in May for a fourth consecutive month and a gauge of imports fell to a 16-year…
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New York City may adopt multi-year rent freeze that turns the city into a slum
Freezing rents for years turns cities into slums by destroying their housing stock. It leaves housing providers with too little…
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Trump says steel & aluminum tariffs will rise to 50%. That could wipe out many jobs in the auto industry, construction, and tool & machine industries.
Tariffs on steel and aluminum wipe out more jobs than they save, because “steel is produced by a tiny sliver…
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Corn production skyrockets
“Corn has a rich history stretching back thousands of years to Mesoamerica, where it was domesticated from a wild grass…
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California Democrats Rail Against Energy Regulations They Unleashed As Gas Crisis Looms
By Audrey Streb California Democrats are railing against state regulators for economic conditions they helped unleash now that a possible…
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China Finds Way To Quietly Keep Its Forced Labor System Alive
By Wallace White China has been moving Uyghur Muslims to factories outside of the Xinjiang region in order to skirt…
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Court of International Trade strikes down Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
Today, the U.S. Court of International Trade issued a unanimous ruling against Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs in a lawsuit filed…
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Regulation is making homes unaffordable across the world
“Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last May. It’s only gotten worse. January home…
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Belgium drops plan to shut down all nuclear power plants
“Belgium’s parliament on Thursday voted to drop the country’s planned nuclear phaseout. The motion was passed with 102 votes in…
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Colorado allows single-stairway buildings to reduce housing costs
A new law in Colorado allows the construction of apartment buildings with a single staircase, if the apartment building is…
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‘America is a manufacturing powerhouse’
Economist Scott Sumner explains why, contrary to widespread myths, “America is a manufacturing powerhouse”: It is important to recall that…
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Colorado forces the public to pay for unnecessary transgender medical procedures
Colorado’s Democratic governor has “just signed a bill forcing all of us to pay for elective transgender-affirming procedures… this bill…
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Trump administration rescinds Biden regulations that made it harder to clean clothes and dishes
The Trump administration is rescinding counterproductive Biden-era regulations that made it harder for people to get their clothes and dishes…
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Diamonds become cheaper, due to competition with synthetic diamonds, whose price has crashed
“Historically, diamonds represented wealth and exclusivity, accessible primarily to the affluent. However, technological advancements, particularly synthetic diamond production via High…
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Progressive New York mayoral candidate wants government-run grocery stores, which sometimes let food rot
The left-wing candidate for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, wants city-run grocery stores. That’s a bad idea, notes…
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Extracting uranium from water could expand nuclear power
“There are 4.5 billion tons of uranium floating around the Earth’s oceans, enough to power human civilization for millennia. A…
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Rubber Duck Museum moves to Canada in response to tariff hikes and U.S.-Canada tensions
The Rubber Duck Museum is moving across the border to Canada. It’s currently in Point Roberts, a small U.S. town…
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Illinois to fund city-owned grocery store in town with falling population
Government-run grocery stores tend to be poorly-run, stocking too little of many items and too much of things that people…
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Trump seeks to impose drug price controls, which could backfire
President Trump’s executive order yesterday was a risky “attempt to impose government price controls on pharmaceuticals,” says healthcare expert Michael…
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Eels used to be very important
“How do say thanks to a good friend? Well…if you’re a medieval English bishop, you send an eel! It was…
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Chris Wright Has To Clean Up Joe Biden’s Mess
By David Blackmon Joe Biden and his appointees took an abundance of costly and damaging policy actions during his four-year…
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‘Got To Go’: DOE To Cut Off Billions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Biden-Era Green Energy Projects
By Audrey Streb Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Friday that his agency plans to cut billions in grant funds…
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Fully driverless trucks are now on the road in Texas
“Fully driverless trucks are now on the road in Texas, thanks to efforts by Aurora Innovation, a self-driving startup. Companies…
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Trump Admin Sues To Block Blue States From Taking Fossil Fuel Companies To Court Over Climate Change
By Audrey Streb The Trump administration filed lawsuits Wednesday against Michigan and Hawaii in an attempt to block the states…
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Judge says Florida’s ban on lab-grown meat may violate the Constitution’s Dormant Commerce Clause
Bans on lab-grown meat are motivated by a desire to protect local cattle farming, not to protect human health. Lab-grown…
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Zuckerberg’s Trillion-Dollar Meta Empire Sits On Razor’s Edge As Antitrust Case Rolls On
By Thomas English The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took Meta to trial last week, opening a federal antitrust assault that…
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How Chocolate Tariffs Could Kill The Easter Bunny
By Taylor Milliard Easter Sunday recently came, and there’s bad news for Americans looking to celebrate with traditional chocolate treats.…
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Trump’s EPA Is Right To Be Skeptical Of ‘Sun-Blocking’
By Steve Milloy Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin acted this week to stop a dubious, if not dangerous, idea:…
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3D Printer Used to Construct Train Station Building
“West Japan Railway (JR West) on Wednesday built a station building that consists of parts made with 3D printer technology.…
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