On Friday June 28, the Supreme Court issued their 6-3 ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturning the deference to administrative agencies established in the Chevron v. Environmental Protection Agency…
By Lynne Kiesling | July 3, 2024
In a six-to-three decision, the US Supreme Court last week declined to address the substantive merits of the plaintiffs’ jawboning claims in Murthy v. Missouri that multiple government officials unlawfully coerced and significantly encouraged leading social…
By Clay Calvert | July 2, 2024
It is now a ubiquitous cultural ritual to blame any and every weather event on climate change. Those hot days? Climate change. That hurricane? Climate change. The flood somewhere that…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | July 2, 2024
For many years “proxy advisory” services have been provided by a duopoly comprising two companies, Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services, with a combined market share of 97 percent engendered…
By Benjamin Zycher | July 1, 2024
I recently got a message asking me what I thought about this Washington Times article by Susan Ferrechio on the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. As part of the Infrastructure Investment and…
By Will Rinehart | July 1, 2024
In 1981, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Administrator Anne Gorsuch (the mother of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch), decide to change how it defined a “source” of pollution under the Clean…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | July 1, 2024
Competition is beneficial in many areas of life. It can lead to lower prices, higher quality goods and services, more innovation, and greater variety. When companies compete for workers, they may…
By Bronwyn Howell | July 1, 2024
As part of the initiative to bolster cybersecurity defenses, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is championing the widespread adoption of Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs), a security mechanism to…
By Shane Tews | June 28, 2024
Is technology really addictive, or is that just another myth? What hidden benefits of AI are we overlooking? And how will the landscape of innovation shift as lawmakers tighten the…
By Shane Tews | June 27, 2024
Benjamin Franklin’s reputed last great quote, in his November 1789 letter to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, opined: Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 27, 2024
China’s move to dominate the world electric vehicle (EV) market poses major challenges to the world trading system and, the US argues, to national security. While the policy responses are still…
By Claude Barfield | June 26, 2024
Later this week on Colorado’s beautiful Western Slope, I’ll be giving a keynote talk at an energy transition conference. The timing is perfect because I get to share some of…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 26, 2024
Last week, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthycalled for a “warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.” He contends it…
By Clay Calvert | June 25, 2024
An ordinary bill signing became extraordinary last month when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis used the occasion to deliver a detailed critique of the bill he was signing, Senate Bill 24-205. The bill is…
By Will Rinehart | June 24, 2024
Sometimes a hearing about transparency ends up being about free speech. A recent meeting of the House’s bipartisan task force on artificial intelligence ended up being about democracy, for me. In…
By Jim Harper | June 23, 2024