By Oliver McPherson-Smith, American Consumer Institute Wind power has gradually become the leading source of renewable energy in the United States. With strong consumer demand for lower carbon energy and new technology lowering the price of production, wind power now rivals solar and fossil fuels on cost. Despite wind’s success, conflicting federal policies are picking winners and losers […]
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States can’t act in place of feds during a pandemic
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of federal action in coordinating emergency public health response, according to a commentary in Fortune by Fanyin Zheng, an assistant professor of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division of Columbia Business School. In the op-ed, titled “States cannot fight coronavirus alone. The federal government must […]
TES Weekly Update: Russian Bear Gets Cozy In The Tropics
Meet your fuzzy new best friend everyone Vladimir Putin may have promised that the “Russian bear” will stick to the cold climes of Siberia, but perhaps he wasn’t being entirely truthful (shocking, shocking). It seems the famous ursine avatar is sniffing around the Middle East and Africa — and Russia’s moves in these regions […]
Make way for the delivery drones (by empowering local government)
“To Kickstart Drone Deliveries, Give Cities and States Regulatory Flexibility” By Brent Skorup and Connor Haaland, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Drone delivery services are coming to US towns. The technology is ready and operators have been making thousands of deliveries in rural China and medical deliveries in Rwanda. (We are seeing the […]
Trump takes the keys back from California on auto standards
By Mike Palicz, Americans for Tax Reform President Obama’s special waiver allowing California to set and enforce its own greenhouse-gas regulations for cars beyond federal standards has been a complete disaster. California’s waiver from the federal fuel economy rules, the so-called Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, kneecaps […]
Feds are overreaching on water rules (again)
The Federal government appears to be cracking down on agricultural water use as well as alleged pollution from ordinary agricultural activities, making it harder for farmers to cultivate or irrigate their land — and it also seems the feds are overreaching with the new […]
Feds back down on private property grab
The U.S. federal government is not known for dialing back its authority or admitting defeat in cases with its own citizens — but this rarest of events has apparently come to pass in Louisiana, where the feds have given up on a sweeping land […]