Andrew Wheeler, former Trump EPA chief, was nominated by Governor-elect Youngkin to serve as the next Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources. Radical environmentalists called him an "extremist" following the announcement.
“RGGI describes itself as a regional market for carbon, but it is really a carbon tax that is fully passed on to ratepayers. It’s a bad deal for Virginians. It’s a bad deal for Virginia businesses. I promised to lower the cost of living in Virginia and this is just the beginning.” — Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Younkin In Episode 235 of District of Conservation, Gabriella discusses two news stories for listeners. One regarding incoming Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announcing his intent to withdraw the Commonwealth from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the other about Biden's EPA revoking the Trump-era Navigable [...]
I have been shining a light this week on the fake conservative group republicEn’s participation at the CPAC annual conference this week. The central agenda of RepublicEn and its fake conservative allies is to impose on Americans the largest tax hike in the nation’s history.
Inglis, Bozmoski, and RepublicEN may call themselves conservative, but their words, their actions, Inglis’ voting record, and the voters in Inglis’ home district tell us something entirely different.
It is not likely that a carbon dioxide tax would produce any measurable change in the CO2 in the atmosphere, but it would damage the U.S. economy and enrage the citizenry.
By John McClaughry: In Vermont the carbon tax just won't die.
Whether we call it carbon pricing, or more accurately carbon taxation, the correct adjective is dangerous.
BY MICHELLE STIRLING: As Joanne Nova reports in “The Other Side of Climate,”carbon markets are booming for banks and big business, but it all costs you and me, the little guy, way more than we can pay."
BY MARK MATHIS: A bipartisan group of Nobel Prize-winning economists, former Federal Reserve chairs and top economic advisers to recent presidents has endorsed a carbon tax. Their reasons for supporting the tax demonstrate a profound obliviousness to energy reality.
Faced with widespread carbon / fuel tax rioting, French President Emmanuel Macron surrendered. The French government suspended the wildly unpopular fuel tax, for six months at least. "The people are revolting!" Mel Brooks as Louis XIV: "You said it, they stink on ice."
Exxon is sending the money to Americans for Carbon Dividends (ACD), a group headed by former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Republican.
Permanently bury these job-killing proposals, after pounding wooden stakes through their hearts.
According to AEI’s panel, it does not matter if the climate science is off. The green agenda needs to be implemented, no matter what.
AEI's panel wasn’t a debate or even a discussion of pro’s and con’s. It was an echo-chamber of leftist talking points on climate change and carbon taxes.
There are a lot of wacky schemes around for forcing people to stop using carbon-based energy, even though fire is still the basis for human civilization.