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    Tax Incentives Are No Way to Drive Energy Innovation. Here’s Why.
    The best ways to tame environmentally harmful emissions is to allow the private sector to innovate cleaner and more efficient ways to produce, distribute, and use energy. Unfortunately, government subsidies, mandates, and other regulations largely fail to spur such developments, and instead bolster government-favored technologies. The latest example of this is a  recent proposal from…
    Adam Michel | Nicolas Loris
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    First Woman to Lead House Energy and Commerce Panel Now Fights Left’s Job-Killing Agenda
    Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., was the first woman ever elected chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And now, as the ranking Republican on the panel, McMorris Rodgers is pushing back on the far left’s harmful climate policies and fighting to protect American jobs.  McMorris Rodgers joins the show to talk about that and to discuss…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans
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    Meet George Gascón, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Los Angeles
    This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to crime victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series focused on prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Fairfax County, Virginia, and potential U.S….
    Cully Stimson | Zack Smith
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    The Dangers of Climate Change Activists
    What is it about people who are successful in one field and believe that gives them credence to serve as an expert in a totally unrelated field? Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and reportedly the fourth-richest person on the planet, now self-identifies as a climate expert, and not only an expert, but a fervent…
    Cal Thomas
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    Green Energy Leaves Americans Out in the Cold in More Ways Than One
    February gave Texas the cold shoulder this weekend as an extreme winter storm pounded the entire state. As of this morning, power had not been restored to more than 4 million Texans. Hundreds of thousands have also lost water after the water treatment plants in Fort Worth, Abilene, and elsewhere suffered power outages. A handful of…
    Tony Perkins
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    New York Times Reviews Book Advocating Blowing Up Pipelines to Combat Climate Change
    If the name Tatiana Schlossberg sounds like a brand for white privilege, you would be right. She’s not a top chef or fashion designer. She’s the 30-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy. Like Maria Shriver at NBC News, Tatiana Schlossberg became an “objective journalist” for…
    Tim Graham
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    Biden’s Energy Nominee Divvied Taxpayers’ Millions to Alternative Startups That Went Bankrupt
    President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, divvied out millions in taxpayer funds during her two terms as Michigan governor to alternative energy companies that eventually went bankrupt. In one instance, Granholm’s administration provided a $9.1 million refundable tax credit to a renewable energy company registered to the address of…
    Andrew Kerr
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    Biden to Sign Multiple Climate Change Orders, Reversing Trump Policies
    President Joe Biden is expected to sign multiple executive orders aimed at combating climate change on his first day in office. The orders—which block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, rejoin the Paris climate accords, and temporarily halt oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—would directly reverse policies implemented by former President…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Biden’s Climate Change Litmus Test
    From the looks of former Vice President Joe Biden’s selections for Cabinet positions and other high offices, it seems belief in “climate change” has become a litmus test. Biden appears to have raised climate change to the level of a religious doctrine. In naming John Kerry a climate “czar,” Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to head…
    Cal Thomas
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    When Climate Change Distracts the US Military
    Climate change is an urgent national security threat? Here we go again. Leaving aside the debate over the causes of climate change—and the pace of that change—promoters of the argument that changes in the global climate are a “security threat” to the U.S. muddle our understanding of the term and jeopardize our ability to confront…
    Dakota Wood
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    Millions in Africa Being Sacrificed to Extreme Poverty, Premature Death on Altar of ‘Green Energy’
    Obama-era policies that favor so-called green energy over coal-fired electricity are dooming millions of Africans to lives of extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and increased risk of early death, according to a new analysis by the CO2 Coalition. The study by the Arlington, Virginia-based coalition of 60 climate scientists and energy engineers contends that inadequate access…
    Gregory Wrightstone
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    Mexico’s Efforts to Undercut Oil Competition Should Concern US Policymakers
    A recently revealed memo from the president of Mexico, written by Mexican officials, highlights a deepening of statist economic policy in that country. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has purportedly directed authorities to further undo the 2014 energy liberalization by granting state-owned oil giant Petroleos de Mexico primary access to the country’s electrical grid—meaning,…
    Bernard Zitzewitz | Ana Quintana
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    Top-Down White Penitence Is Shaking Up and Roiling the American Workplace
    A white physician working in Raleigh, North Carolina, says he has participated in multiple diversity training exercises—including two in the last two years—without a fuss. But he was taken aback when his employer, Duke University Health System, said this summer it will roll out a comprehensive strategy to purge the last vestiges of racism from…
    John Murawski
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    Why California’s Natural Gas Appliance Bans Are Bad Economic and Environmental Policy
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom made headlines a few weeks ago when he signed an executive order to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. While the order is concerning for a number of reasons, there’s a more imminent threat of restrictions on affordable, reliable energy. Several cities in California and…
    Nicolas Loris
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    The Facts About Climate Change and California Fires
    Despite some progress made by heroic firefighters, wildfires continue to tear through the West. Tragically, the fires have taken more than 30 lives (with many more missing), destroyed thousands of structures, and burned millions of acres. Here are answers to some of the commonly asked questions on causes for the wildfires and obstacles that stand in…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Bad Policies, Not Climate Change, Main Driver of California Fires
    This week, America’s West Coast found itself on fire. Millions of acres have burned across California, Oregon, and Washington. The smoke clouds have been so immense that they have blotted out the sun in certain areas; air quality has been so poor that hundreds of thousands of people have been forced indoors. There are several…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Portland Mayor Bans Police Use of Tear Gas After 100 Days of Rioting
    Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has banned the use of tear gas on rioters in the Oregon city. Wheeler, a Democrat who is also Portland's police commissioner, banned the use of tear gas munitions on rioters Thursday, despite ongoing riots that have surpassed the 100-day mark, a press release from his office says. Wheeler wrote that the Multnomah…
    Jake Dima
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    Pennsylvania Lawmakers Resist Governor’s Executive Actions on Climate Change
    If Pennsylvania joins a multistate agreement that restricts carbon dioxide emissions, the commonwealth could jeopardize its position as an energy producer and exporter without achieving discernible environmental benefits, according to elected officials who are resisting executive actions to address climate change.  The state Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to prohibit Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat,…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Can Oil-Rich Guyana Avoid the Venezuela Curse?
    The battle for the future of economic freedom in Guyana is being waged right now.  Its gross domestic product growth has improved in anticipation of an oil boom that is now coming on stream. The oil revenues could transform the country, as a petrostate, into the fastest-growing economy in the region. Alternatively, the country could…
    James M. Roberts
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    How the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Forces Average Americans to Subsidize Rich Californians
    Congress in 2008 passed the Qualified Plug-In Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit to make electric vehicles more affordable, thereby encouraging their use. Yet, a 2019 watchdog report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration showed the electric vehicle tax credit is rife with fraud and abuse, and electric vehicle incentives disproportionately benefit the wealthy….
    Donald van der Vaart | Dominic Coletti
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