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Agriculture
Life Is Too Short To Drink Subsidized Wine
Can the quality of California wine taste better than it already does? Apparently there’s a way to grow grapes that will do just that. A farming experiment at Robert Hall Winery in Paso Robles has produced grapes that, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, are “noticeably tastier” than grapes from ...
Government Energy Mandates
Legislating Energy ProsperityStudy by Wayne WinegardenMay 2020 California’s Blackouts: How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do to Keep the Lights On?Kerry JacksonCapital Ideas Brief, November 2019 Legislating Energy PovertyStudy by Wayne WinegardenDecember 2018 Legislating Energy Poverty in CaliforniaVideo Tim Anaya Responds to California 100 Percent Renewable Energy MandatesVideo Green ...
California
Newsom Dives In The Deep End
Gov. Gavin Newsom has unwrapped a long-overdue plan to quench California’s perpetual thirst. While a bit late and slightly off the mark, his $8 billion Water Supply Strategy is a welcomed development in a state that really needs one. The governor called it “an aggressive plan to rebuild the way ...
Commentary
The Electric Car Snow Job
By Andrew Fillat & Henry Miller The United States is being taken for a very expensive ride by an unholy alliance between climate ideologues and business opportunists, who have exerted undue influence over public opinion and government institutions in the name of climate change. The misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, signed ...
Commentary
Inflation Reduction Act Nightmare Targets Life-Saving Meds
President Joe Biden returned from vacation in South Carolina this week to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The country would have been better off had he stayed at the beach. The IRA includes a combination of massive tax increases, innovation-destroying price controls, and debt-funded spending commitments. That might be music to the ears ...
Blog
Ag Already Doing Its Part to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The United States Senate recently passed an energy spending bill that would, in part, funnel billions toward agriculture to address greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from livestock and soil tillage. The goal of this legislation is to bring the U.S. in line with its promised GHG emissions reduction target of 50 ...
Studies
Health Care NEW BRIEF: Biosimilars Save Patients Over $11 Billion Annually, Fixing Broken System Would Help Patients Save More August 22, 2022 NEW BRIEF: Establishing An Efficient Health Insurance Market July 26, 2022 NEW STUDY: U.K. Vaping Regulations Based on Risks of Vaping Relative to Smoking Provide Lessons for U.S. ...
Commentary
Bad Piled on Bad
By Henry Miller & Andrew Fillat Less than a month after the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA, the White House is reportedly contemplating declaration of a “national climate emergency.” On July 20, at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts, President Biden said, “Climate change is an emergency. And in the coming ...
Featured
We’re Nominated! Cast your vote for PRI today!
PRI has been nominated for two prestigious national awards – and we need your help to win! State Policy Network has recognized PRI with nominations for two awards, recognizing our successes in stopping destructive policies from Sacramento that would take away our freedoms, and promoting market-based reforms that would improve ...
Environment
Spending Watch Consumers, Not ‘Polluters’, Would Be Hard Hit by New Climate Tax Legislation Wayne H Winegarden May 1, 2024 California Consumers, Not ‘Polluters’, Would Be Hard Hit by New Climate Tax Legislation Wayne Winegarden May 2024 SB-1497, the Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act of 2024, purports to ...
Life Is Too Short To Drink Subsidized Wine
Can the quality of California wine taste better than it already does? Apparently there’s a way to grow grapes that will do just that. A farming experiment at Robert Hall Winery in Paso Robles has produced grapes that, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, are “noticeably tastier” than grapes from ...
Government Energy Mandates
Legislating Energy ProsperityStudy by Wayne WinegardenMay 2020 California’s Blackouts: How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do to Keep the Lights On?Kerry JacksonCapital Ideas Brief, November 2019 Legislating Energy PovertyStudy by Wayne WinegardenDecember 2018 Legislating Energy Poverty in CaliforniaVideo Tim Anaya Responds to California 100 Percent Renewable Energy MandatesVideo Green ...
Newsom Dives In The Deep End
Gov. Gavin Newsom has unwrapped a long-overdue plan to quench California’s perpetual thirst. While a bit late and slightly off the mark, his $8 billion Water Supply Strategy is a welcomed development in a state that really needs one. The governor called it “an aggressive plan to rebuild the way ...
The Electric Car Snow Job
By Andrew Fillat & Henry Miller The United States is being taken for a very expensive ride by an unholy alliance between climate ideologues and business opportunists, who have exerted undue influence over public opinion and government institutions in the name of climate change. The misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, signed ...
Inflation Reduction Act Nightmare Targets Life-Saving Meds
President Joe Biden returned from vacation in South Carolina this week to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The country would have been better off had he stayed at the beach. The IRA includes a combination of massive tax increases, innovation-destroying price controls, and debt-funded spending commitments. That might be music to the ears ...
Ag Already Doing Its Part to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The United States Senate recently passed an energy spending bill that would, in part, funnel billions toward agriculture to address greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from livestock and soil tillage. The goal of this legislation is to bring the U.S. in line with its promised GHG emissions reduction target of 50 ...
Studies
Health Care NEW BRIEF: Biosimilars Save Patients Over $11 Billion Annually, Fixing Broken System Would Help Patients Save More August 22, 2022 NEW BRIEF: Establishing An Efficient Health Insurance Market July 26, 2022 NEW STUDY: U.K. Vaping Regulations Based on Risks of Vaping Relative to Smoking Provide Lessons for U.S. ...
Bad Piled on Bad
By Henry Miller & Andrew Fillat Less than a month after the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA, the White House is reportedly contemplating declaration of a “national climate emergency.” On July 20, at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts, President Biden said, “Climate change is an emergency. And in the coming ...
We’re Nominated! Cast your vote for PRI today!
PRI has been nominated for two prestigious national awards – and we need your help to win! State Policy Network has recognized PRI with nominations for two awards, recognizing our successes in stopping destructive policies from Sacramento that would take away our freedoms, and promoting market-based reforms that would improve ...
Environment
Spending Watch Consumers, Not ‘Polluters’, Would Be Hard Hit by New Climate Tax Legislation Wayne H Winegarden May 1, 2024 California Consumers, Not ‘Polluters’, Would Be Hard Hit by New Climate Tax Legislation Wayne Winegarden May 2024 SB-1497, the Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act of 2024, purports to ...
