By Krisztina Pusok and Ana Diaz, American Consumer Institute California’s solar energy mandate was officially implemented at the beginning of this year, making the Golden state the first in the nation to implement a law that obligates all newly constructed houses to have solar panels. Hawaii, Arizona, Maryland, and other states have announced they will follow suit. While […]
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Clean Energy Has A Dirty Secret
Greg Walcher, President, Natural Resources Group and former head of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources “Governments should temporarily provide funding for new energy technologies so that they can become market competitive with traditional energy resources.” So the Global Energy Network Institute and other renewable energy advocates have been saying for decades. Taxpayers […]
WEEKLY UPDATE: Can economic freedom survive populism?
The future prosperity of the world hangs in the balance The wave of populism that has swept the world in recent years had its origins in a number of converging trends, including large-scale migration, globalization, and the financial crisis of 2008, all of which fueled a sense that legacy elites are self-interested and […]
Spending more doesn’t equal polluting less
“A Real Green Economy Is Possible In France” By Michel Gay and Jean-Luc Salanave, courtesy of Contrepoints SPENDING MORE IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH POLLUTING LESS For 10 years the European climate policy based on renewable energy has been a failure. It has squandered tens […]