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Climate Change
Climate Change Captives?
Organizers said the goal of the event, dubbed “Focus the Nation,” was to move past preaching to the green choir, to reach a captive audience of students in many fields who might not otherwise tune in to climate change issues.” The Lewis & Clark College economics professor behind the day’s ...
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Latest California Climate Change Plan Doubles Down on Job-Killing Policies
Sacramento’s response to President Trump’s Inauguration Day was to release the latest version of its heavy-handed plan to stop global warming. The state’s updated approach to environmental policy will be about as effective in stopping climate change as another anti-Trump riot and far more economically damaging. The 2017 Climate Change ...
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California and the SEC face legal challenges to their climate-related disclosure requirements
These requirements are not only financially burdensome but have been challenged on legal and Constitutional grounds. In January, the California Chamber of Commerce sued the California Air and Resource Board (CARB), seeking an injunction against the implementation of SB 253 and SB 261. In their complaint, they argued that California ...
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Spending Watch
Consumers, Not ‘Polluters’, Would Be Hard Hit by New Climate Tax Legislation
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 “require fossil fuel polluters to pay their fair share of the damage caused by the sale of their products…to relieve a ...
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Get the latest scoop on local green programs
Budget woes force cities to limit utopian climate programs
City officials depend on money from state and federal governments to implement climate agendas imposed from above. A new report finds them griping about their favorite topic: not enough money from the taxpayers. Key takeaway: “Across all policy areas, respondents were most likely to identify staff capacity and funding as ...
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Read latest about California's green agenda
Everyday Is Halloween For The Scaremongering Climate Alarmists
“Climate anxiety and dissatisfaction with government responses,” says The Lancet, “are widespread in children and young people in countries across the world and impact their daily functioning.” And what does California do about this? It is now the third state to “mandate scaring our kids to death.” Along with Connecticut ...
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Read about latest costly green mandate
New Climate Disclosure Laws Will Hurt Business, Won’t Help Planet
When author and journalist Tom Wolfe coined the term “statusphere” – in which participants compete for prestige within a groupthink bubble – he didn’t have the California Legislature of the 21st century in mind. But he could have. In California, it’s routine for lawmakers to pass bills that have little ...
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The California Climate Quandary
Actually, there’s no predicament at all. One of these concerns is truly alarming, the other not worth worrying about at all. OC voters, in fact voters over the entire state, need not be concerned with the climate. There is no crisis now nor on the horizon. Fuel prices, however, ...
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Newsom End of Session Climate Rush Deserves Hard Look from Legislature
California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to be sure that as many people as possible know that “we will be the first jurisdiction in the world to require all new cars to be sold to be alternative fuel cars,” following a bureaucratic decision to follow his executive order. But done, he ...
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California’s climate lawsuits threaten to raise energy prices and harm consumers
The recent Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. EPA reinforced the commonsense notion that it is the responsibility of our elected representatives, not the courts, to establish our nation’s global climate change policies. If only the states and localities suing the global energy companies, many of which are here ...
Climate Change Captives?
Organizers said the goal of the event, dubbed “Focus the Nation,” was to move past preaching to the green choir, to reach a captive audience of students in many fields who might not otherwise tune in to climate change issues.” The Lewis & Clark College economics professor behind the day’s ...
Latest California Climate Change Plan Doubles Down on Job-Killing Policies
Sacramento’s response to President Trump’s Inauguration Day was to release the latest version of its heavy-handed plan to stop global warming. The state’s updated approach to environmental policy will be about as effective in stopping climate change as another anti-Trump riot and far more economically damaging. The 2017 Climate Change ...
California and the SEC face legal challenges to their climate-related disclosure requirements
These requirements are not only financially burdensome but have been challenged on legal and Constitutional grounds. In January, the California Chamber of Commerce sued the California Air and Resource Board (CARB), seeking an injunction against the implementation of SB 253 and SB 261. In their complaint, they argued that California ...
Spending Watch
Consumers, Not ‘Polluters’, Would Be Hard Hit by New Climate Tax Legislation
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 “require fossil fuel polluters to pay their fair share of the damage caused by the sale of their products…to relieve a ...
Get the latest scoop on local green programs
Budget woes force cities to limit utopian climate programs
City officials depend on money from state and federal governments to implement climate agendas imposed from above. A new report finds them griping about their favorite topic: not enough money from the taxpayers. Key takeaway: “Across all policy areas, respondents were most likely to identify staff capacity and funding as ...
Read latest about California's green agenda
Everyday Is Halloween For The Scaremongering Climate Alarmists
“Climate anxiety and dissatisfaction with government responses,” says The Lancet, “are widespread in children and young people in countries across the world and impact their daily functioning.” And what does California do about this? It is now the third state to “mandate scaring our kids to death.” Along with Connecticut ...
Read about latest costly green mandate
New Climate Disclosure Laws Will Hurt Business, Won’t Help Planet
When author and journalist Tom Wolfe coined the term “statusphere” – in which participants compete for prestige within a groupthink bubble – he didn’t have the California Legislature of the 21st century in mind. But he could have. In California, it’s routine for lawmakers to pass bills that have little ...
The California Climate Quandary
Actually, there’s no predicament at all. One of these concerns is truly alarming, the other not worth worrying about at all. OC voters, in fact voters over the entire state, need not be concerned with the climate. There is no crisis now nor on the horizon. Fuel prices, however, ...
Newsom End of Session Climate Rush Deserves Hard Look from Legislature
California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to be sure that as many people as possible know that “we will be the first jurisdiction in the world to require all new cars to be sold to be alternative fuel cars,” following a bureaucratic decision to follow his executive order. But done, he ...
California’s climate lawsuits threaten to raise energy prices and harm consumers
The recent Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. EPA reinforced the commonsense notion that it is the responsibility of our elected representatives, not the courts, to establish our nation’s global climate change policies. If only the states and localities suing the global energy companies, many of which are here ...
