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October 4, 2023
Why So Many Americans Are Losing Trust in Science
Dr. Mandy Cohen has been on a national tour. The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she aims to rebuild trust in that troubled agency at a moment when Covid-19 cases are rising again and the Biden administration has begun a new vaccine campaign. She has her work cut out for her. According…
August 29, 2023
No One Is Above the Law? Biden’s Bureau of Land Management Thinks It Is.
One central characteristic of the Biden administration is its contempt for the letter of the law. When laws interfere with overriding political objectives, they are cast aside, and the courts are often forced to clean up the mess. Nowhere is this norm-busting reality more pronounced than at the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM),…
August 8, 2023
The IEA and Congressional Opponents of Fossil Fuels Are Chasing Windmills
The Biden administration’s regulatory onslaught is no mere rumor. It’s a harsh reality deeply problematic for the rule of law, for the concept of self-government, for the institutions of our constitutional republic, and for federalism. And, not least, for a U.S. economy subjected to ever-increasing legal burdens, bureaucratic interference, distortions in the productivity of resource use, and metastasizing Beltway mindlessness. But it’s…
August 7, 2023
EPA Is Ignoring the Glaring Problem with Dirty Electric Vehicles
The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) has launched a new regulatory effort to force a massive transportation shift to electric vehicles (EVs) with its proposed “multi-pollutant emissions standards” for light- and medium-duty vehicles beginning with model year 2027. The reality, however, is that the proposed rule has little to do with “pollutants.” Instead, it is an attempt…
July 21, 2023
The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have
“Mask Up DC” signs are still visible in the windows of some businesses around Washington, D.C. Are these signs public-health recommendations based on science, or just outdated reminders of a bygone pandemic era? Or could they be relics of a time when many mistakenly believed that masks were actually protecting us? That is the conclusion…
May 31, 2023
The EPA Forges Ahead Toward Less Electricity Supply and Greater Electricity Demand
The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is nothing if not ambitious, striving as only a bureaucracy politicized and single-minded can to save the world from the purported ravages of the climate “crisis.” Indeed, the central focus of EPA regulatory efforts is the promulgation of requirements for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that can survive judicial review. A…
May 24, 2023
The ESG Perversion of Shareholder Resolutions
Back in the old days — oh, before, say, 2021 — the annual general meetings of company shareholders were boring. Questions asked of management more or less uniformly oriented toward the financial condition of the firm and the variables affecting the values of the shareholders’ stakes. How is the firm dealing with exchange rate risk? Are any…
April 26, 2023
Letter: Electric Vehicles Won’t Save the Climate
Note: This letter to the editor appeared in the Wall Street Journal on April 24, 2023, in response to the Journal’s April 19, 2023, op-ed titled “Biden and Media Are EV Grifters.” Electric vehicles are preposterous, in particular as climate policy (“Biden and Media Are EV Grifters” by Holman Jenkins, Jr., Business World, April 19). The…
April 26, 2023
What Does “Scientific Progress” Mean, Anyway?
Last year, Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act, which, besides shoring up the American semiconductor industry, also significantly increased federal spending on scientific research. Both the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation came away with substantial boosts. The “and Science” part of the bill comes from the Endless Frontier Act, a bipartisan proposal from early…
April 21, 2023
Earth Day 2023: Utterly Bereft of Ideas
Earth Day falls on April 22 — Lenin’s birthday, appropriately enough — so let us first recall the blessed memory of the official theme for Earth Day 2022: “Invest In Our PlanetTM.” “This is the moment to change it all — the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate. It’s going…