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Trump White House Sets Sights On One Of Green Lobby’s Favorite Laws
By Nick Pope The Trump White House is taking aim at the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), one of the…
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India doubles solar installations, expands wind power
India is one of the world’ most densely-populated countries, with little room for sprawling solar farms in most of the…
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California board diversity mandates reduced companies’ value, study shows
Race and gender quotas are bad for business. In laws passed in 2018 and 2020, California’s legislature required corporations to…
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Trump’s Energy Secretary Wasting No Time In Declaring End To Biden’s War On Coal
By David Blackmon It seems safe to predict that Chris Wright is going to be a consistent newsmaker for the…
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Time For Trump To Place Another Biden Green Energy Boondoggle On Chopping Block
By Frank Lasee So far, President Trump and his energy secretary, Chris Wright, are right about one thing: under the…
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In-N-Out Burger is moving operations from California to Tennessee
In-N-Out Burger, a classic family-owned California company, is gradually relocating its corporate offices to Tennessee. It’s doing that even though…
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Billionaire-Funded Lawfare Takes Another Big Hit In New Jersey
By David Blackmon Things are just not going well for the leftwing activist groups, billionaire-funded NGOs and trial lawyer firms…
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GOP Rep Wants To Gut Biden’s Green Energy Law In Next Budget
By Adam Pack House Republicans could be leaving hundreds of billions of dollars in potential savings on the table as…
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Trump’s Energy Secretary Comes Out Swinging With Plan That Takes Sledgehammer To Several Biden-Era Policies
By Ireland Owens Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright moved to overturn many of former President Joe Biden’s green…
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Robot insect paves the way for robotic pollination of crops
“MIT researchers have developed a robot insect designed for artificial pollination, laying the groundwork for entirely indoor farms of the…
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One Of America’s Priciest Green Boondoggles May Be Going Offline After Sucking Up Subsidies And Incinerating Birds
By Nick Pope One of the most expensive green energy projects ever undertaken in American history looks like it is…
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An Ill Wind Blows Toward Offshore Turbines
By Bonner Cohen Signaling a sharp departure from Biden administration green-energy policies, President Donald Trump Jan. 20 signed an executive…
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Record-high egg prices likely
“Expect record-high egg prices for most of the year,” CNN says: Americans can continue to expect high prices for eggs…
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Trump Moves To Reverse Biden’s Green New Deal Agenda — With A Special Focus On Wind
By David Blackmon Shares of big Danish offshore wind developer Orsted dropped by 17% Monday, the same day President Donald…
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Molten salt nuclear reactor advances in Wyoming
Bill Gates wants to develop a safe and clean next generation nuclear plant. His company, TerraPower, is constructing such a…
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‘Immediate And Decisive Action’: Trump Will Reportedly Declare Energy Emergency To Roll Back Biden Policies
By Nick Pope President-elect Donald Trump will reportedly declare an energy emergency to help roll back Biden administration energy policies…
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World isn’t running out of metals, contrary to predictions
In the 1970s, many journalists and academics thought that metals the needed for a modern society to function would become…
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‘Cannot Have It Both Ways’: Judge Delivers Fatal Blow To New York City’s Lawsuit Against Energy Companies
By Nick Pope A judge dismissed New York City’s lawsuit seeking to make energy companies pay for climate change on…
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Europe Takes A Bite Out Of America’s Apple
By Stephen Moore Envy is an ugly thing — one of the seven deadly sins. The Europeans have long been…
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Certificate-of-need laws make healthcare more expensive, but bill to reform them dies in Virginia
Legislators in a subcommittee killed a bill in the Virginia legislature that would have reformed the state’s obsolete and costly…
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Biotech advances reduce the suffering of livestock
“Industrial agriculture has been a massive boon to both humanity and wild nature, but it is unfortunately responsible for significant…
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Virginia bills would require rent-control ordinances to cap rent below inflation
Raising rent to keep up with inflation isn’t what most people would consider “rent gouging,” even when the landlord has…
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Drug to extend dogs’ life may lead to human life extensions
In 2025, Loyal, a biotech start-up, expects to start selling “a daily, beef-flavored pill” that “could give dogs a minimum…
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Chick-fil-A’s lemon-squeezing robots save 10,000 hours of labor per day
Bloomberg News reports that squeezing hundreds of millions of lemons per year to make lemonade was so labor-intensive for Chick-fil-A…
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Lame Duck Biden Admin Issues Rule Hiding Nearly $50 Billion In Debt From Credit Reports
By Owen Klinsky The lame duck Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a new rule Tuesday that will…
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New U.S. lithium mine expected to produce 40,000 tons a year by 2026
“The U.S. just found a lithium goldmine—40 million tons under the McDermitt Caldera. As global demand for lithium-ion batteries surges,…
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Robots with artificial intelligence may radically reduce need for weed-killer and pesticides, gutting crop-chemical industry
“After almost a century of deploying a more-is-more approach to chemical herbicides, the global agricultural sector is rapidly rolling out…
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Massive Dockworker Strike Could Land In Trump Admin’s Lap On Day One
By Wallace White A costly dockworkers’ strike could ignite just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, presenting the Republican’s…
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Biden Will Reportedly Hand Environmental Lobby One Last Gift On His Way Out The Door
By Nick Pope President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing to restrict offshore oil and gas drilling in his final days…
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10 Things Trump Can Do In The First 100 Days For Energy Independence
By David Blackmon President-elect Donald Trump has a big job ahead of him in restoring common sense and sanity to…
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New York Rolls Out ‘Shakedown’ Law Forcing Companies To Atone For Climate Change With Cash
By Nick Pope New York is poised to fine energy companies billions of dollars in the name of fighting climate…
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Minimum wages rise in 21 states
Minimum wages are rising in 21 states today. The minimum wage is going up to $16.50 in California, $16.35 in…
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Privatize air traffic control to improve safety and cut flight delays
America’s air traffic control is run as “an old-fashioned bureaucracy inside of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The system is…
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Amazon warehouses benefit local economies, study finds
Groups staffed by progressives have claimed that Amazon warehouses harm local economies, such as a left-wing group whose managers include…
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Self-driving cars are much safer than human-driven cars
On December 19, the self-driving taxi company Waymo published new safety research on its vehicles: “Across 25.3 million miles, the…
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Next EV Battle Pits Truckers And Red States Against California-Led ‘Cartel’
By Ireland Owens California state regulators and some truck manufacturers have faced mounting pushback from truck drivers and red states…
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