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January 26, 2026
Notice of Availability of the 11th National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program:1st Analysis and Proposal
Summary: A number of comments on the BOEM proposed OCS leasing program oppose the proposal on “climate” grounds, that is, on the purported adverse effects of the greenhouse gas emissions that would result from the fossil energy production attendant upon the expanded leasing of OCS federal lands for such production. That general stance cannot withstand…
December 2, 2025
Comment to the Environmental Protection Agency: Visibility Protection: Regional Haze State Plan Requirements Rule Revision
Summary: The federal Regional Haze Program should be repealed or at a minimum scaled back dramatically so as to return haze policies to the states as reflected in their respective implementation plans. The clear intent of Congress in the Clean Air Act as amended was to create a system of cooperative federalism for environmental protection,…
April 8, 2024
The Twitter Electorate Isn’t the Real Electors
Over the past few years, I have watched my parents, family, and friends retreat from online spaces. They used to comment on political issues online; now they just lurk. So a couple of years back, while working at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University (CGO), I made sure we asked a…