Gavin Newsom Wants To Make the Country's Most Expensive Gas Even More Expensive
All to shovel more money at wasteful and ineffective programs.
All to shovel more money at wasteful and ineffective programs.
Nominees include stories on inflation breaking brains, America's first drug war, Afghans the U.S. left behind, Javier Milei, and much more.
A massive blackout in Spain shows what happens when energy policy ignores the physics of electricity.
“Between the cost of labor and the inputs that goes in, it’s more cost-effective for farmers” to plow over ripe tomatoes, said one expert.
A recent Federalist Society webinar on one of the Trump EPA"s top agenda items.
Even after the Biden administration realized the most alarming claims were bunk, it didn't publicize the evidence it had.
Environmental Protection Agency
The federal agency has a history of overreaching its authority and threatening liberty.
The program is beyond the proper scope of the federal government.
Slate Auto hopes to offer affordable electric vehicles, but it has to navigate federal incentives and restrictions in the process.
The lawsuit challenges a Day 1 executive order signed by the president to halt federal leasing for offshore wind energy projects.
As climate and equity proposals lose steam, activist investors are targeting junk food, soda, and alcohol in the name of corporate responsibility.
The budget proposal calls for gutting federal energy funding and environmental justice initiatives.
The legislature is advancing three bills that will trample on private property rights and give natural gas a leg up in the Lone Star State.
The California Environmental Quality Act has created a regulatory nightmare.
"All these government programs that regulate and control, they institutionalize mediocrity at best," argues Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute.
So much for unleashing American energy.
Glue traps are a cheap and effective pest control tool. Naturally, San Francisco is considering banning them.
Far from delivering industrial renewal, Trump's tariffs have already led to layoffs at manufacturing plants.
Hundreds of thousands of miles of fences ensnare and sometimes kill wild animals. GPS technology offers an alternative.
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
Sunbeams and breezes are too fickle. The most climate-friendly power source is using magic rocks to boil water.
"Tariffs will have an influence on the total price," one of the project's construction partners said.
The wonders of capitalism make hyper-realistic egg substitutes possible.
The urban farming renaissance offers a little taste of self-reliance.
Trump hopes you like tomato sauce!
Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it.
The lawsuit will hopefully make stringent regulations for nuclear power a relic of the past.
The Atlantic's Derek Thompson urges Democrats to embrace more libertarian, pro-growth policies in his new book.
A simple and quite symbolic presidential decree that symbolizes quite a bit, but accomplishes very little.
From Obama, to Trump, to Biden, to Trump again, the definition of showerhead keeps changing.
The president’s preferential treatment of fossil fuels will cost consumers.
Next up are woolly mammoths, dodos, and Tasmanian wolves.
Because of the century-old Jones Act, U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico must use overpriced, outdated ships to import American LNG—while the Dominican Republic enjoys cheaper energy from the same source.
Decades of efficiency mandates have made dishwashers weaker, A.C. units feebler, and appliances more expensive. A new rollback offers a rare win for function over dogma.
Lower-income families who spend the largest shares of their income on goods—and who have been badly hurt from the recent inflation—will likely suffer the most.
Trump's first trade war cost farmers $27 billion. Losses this time around could be higher.
Many of the houses destroyed by the Pacific Palisades fires were not covered by private insurance due to state regulations.
The escalating dispute threatens Mexican farmers—and American consumers.
When the government picks energy winners, consumers lose.
Cultivated meat isn't challenging slaughtered meat anytime soon. But states keep trying to restrict competition.
Republican members of Congress are lobbying to keep the Inflation Reduction Act's tax credits alive.
Iran isn’t building a nuclear weapon, the Trump administration says. But this hasn’t stopped the march toward war.
Northeastern states import massive amounts of electricity from Canada while strangling domestic energy production with regulations.
The Jones Act keeps energy-hungry Alaskans from using their own natural gas.
Endangered red wolves became a symbol of federal overreach—and a target for local ire—in eastern North Carolina.
The latest tariffs appear to be like many before that were promised but never enacted.
Farmers will bear the brunt of Trump's trade war. That's a good reason to avoid tariffs in the first place, not an excuse for another bailout.
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