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California
Hiring Of Holder Takes Away From Real Issues
The California Legislature entered the New Year by hiring former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder to lead the state’s legal charge against the Trump administration. The justification is that he will “safeguard the values of the people of California.” Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León said that bringing in ...
Kerry Jackson
January 12, 2017
Climate Change
Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost Poor Hundreds Of Billions To Stop 0.019 Degrees Of Global Warming
President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming will raise energy prices and drag many low-income Americans into “energy poverty,” according to a new study. The so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) would significantly increase the price of electricity in the U.S., and could cost the economy up to $479 billion ...
Andrew Follett
October 31, 2016
Climate Change
Hysteria’s History Part IV
Video Series on the Environment Episode 4: Hysteria’s History: Why is Alarmism so Dangerous? Hysteria’s History: Why is Alarmism so Dangerous? is the last video in a four-part series aimed at exposing young people to the historical progression of environmental alarmism that has often resulted in poor and contradictory policy ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 12, 2015
Climate Change
Hysteria’s History Part II
New Video Series on the Environment Episode 2: Hysterias History: Why Haven’t We Run Out of Oil? Hysterias History: Why Havent We Run Out of Oil?, is the second in a four-part series aimed at exposing young people to the historical progression of environmental alarmism that has often resulted in ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 3, 2014
Climate Change
Hysteria’s History Part I
New Video Series on the Environment Episode 1: Hysterias History: Why Havent We Starved to Death? Hysterias History: Why Havent We Starved to Death?, is the first in a four-part series aimed at exposing young people to the historical progression of environmental alarmism that has often resulted in poor and ...
Pacific Research Institute
September 10, 2014
California
California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?
When it comes to saving the planet, some of the most popular weapons are policies to promote energy efficiency. As Tim Greeff, deputy legislative director of the League of Conservation Voters recently quipped, Efficiency is always the cheapest, cleanest, safest, quickest way to cut down on both global warming and ...
Kenneth Green
November 12, 2013
Business & Economics
Obama’s Green Team
The four leaders of Barack Obamas second-term Green Team are nearly all in place: John Kerry has been confirmed as Secretary of State, Sally Jewell has been confirmed as Secretary of the Interior, Ernest Moniz has been confirmed as Secretary of Energy, and only the confirmation of Gina McCarthy remains ...
Ken Green
June 7, 2013
Agriculture
California global warming law choking food processors
As California’s unemployment rate hovers above 12 percent, even the state’s Democratic leaders – notorious for regulating, taxing and complaining about California’s business community – are talking about jobs. They are championing the occasional job expansion in Silicon Valley (i.e., a new Dell research and development center) and proposing their ...
Steven Greenhut
October 22, 2011
Agriculture
Delta Water rules smelt of extremism
If you want to understand the fundamental things wrong with our nation and California, in particular, you ought to peruse the 140-page opinion recently issued by Judge Oliver Wanger in the “Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases.” It describes many of the most frustrating elements in our society – abuses of federal ...
Steven Greenhut
October 3, 2011
Climate Change
2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends
San Francisco—Improvements seen across key environmental indicators should be cause for celebration this Earth Day, according to Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D., author of the new book Almanac of Environmental Trends, released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California-based free market think tank. “The Almanac is an example of the ...
Steven F. Hayward
April 20, 2011
Hiring Of Holder Takes Away From Real Issues
The California Legislature entered the New Year by hiring former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder to lead the state’s legal charge against the Trump administration. The justification is that he will “safeguard the values of the people of California.” Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León said that bringing in ...
Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost Poor Hundreds Of Billions To Stop 0.019 Degrees Of Global Warming
President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming will raise energy prices and drag many low-income Americans into “energy poverty,” according to a new study. The so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) would significantly increase the price of electricity in the U.S., and could cost the economy up to $479 billion ...
Hysteria’s History Part IV
Video Series on the Environment Episode 4: Hysteria’s History: Why is Alarmism so Dangerous? Hysteria’s History: Why is Alarmism so Dangerous? is the last video in a four-part series aimed at exposing young people to the historical progression of environmental alarmism that has often resulted in poor and contradictory policy ...
Hysteria’s History Part II
New Video Series on the Environment Episode 2: Hysterias History: Why Haven’t We Run Out of Oil? Hysterias History: Why Havent We Run Out of Oil?, is the second in a four-part series aimed at exposing young people to the historical progression of environmental alarmism that has often resulted in ...
Hysteria’s History Part I
New Video Series on the Environment Episode 1: Hysterias History: Why Havent We Starved to Death? Hysterias History: Why Havent We Starved to Death?, is the first in a four-part series aimed at exposing young people to the historical progression of environmental alarmism that has often resulted in poor and ...
California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?
When it comes to saving the planet, some of the most popular weapons are policies to promote energy efficiency. As Tim Greeff, deputy legislative director of the League of Conservation Voters recently quipped, Efficiency is always the cheapest, cleanest, safest, quickest way to cut down on both global warming and ...
Obama’s Green Team
The four leaders of Barack Obamas second-term Green Team are nearly all in place: John Kerry has been confirmed as Secretary of State, Sally Jewell has been confirmed as Secretary of the Interior, Ernest Moniz has been confirmed as Secretary of Energy, and only the confirmation of Gina McCarthy remains ...
California global warming law choking food processors
As California’s unemployment rate hovers above 12 percent, even the state’s Democratic leaders – notorious for regulating, taxing and complaining about California’s business community – are talking about jobs. They are championing the occasional job expansion in Silicon Valley (i.e., a new Dell research and development center) and proposing their ...
Delta Water rules smelt of extremism
If you want to understand the fundamental things wrong with our nation and California, in particular, you ought to peruse the 140-page opinion recently issued by Judge Oliver Wanger in the “Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases.” It describes many of the most frustrating elements in our society – abuses of federal ...
2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends
San Francisco—Improvements seen across key environmental indicators should be cause for celebration this Earth Day, according to Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D., author of the new book Almanac of Environmental Trends, released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California-based free market think tank. “The Almanac is an example of the ...