MADISON – Gov. Scott Walker signed 2017 Act 3 into law on Monday, which prohibits the government from requiring a contractor to sign a project labor agreement when bidding on a public project. After the bill signing, Chris Reader, WMC Director of Health and Human Resources Policy, released the following statement: “We are proud to…
James E. Smith
The undeniable innovation-leadership impulse
How can society better ensure that leaders and innovators are there when we need them? Leadership is too often overlooked by the very societal systems that rely on it. Every social and organizational level depends on leaders and their direct and indirect efforts, to provide progress, success, even survival. History books worldwide are filled with…
Larry Bell
Trump Eyes Politicized Climate, Energy Budgets
The Trump administration is taking a cool fiscal position on feverish global warming alarm-driven regulatory agendas. Politicized EPA, NASA, NOAA, and DOE programs will be targeted for special discipline. Curbing EPA Overreach: EPA’s new administrator Scott Pruitt is certain to withdraw the proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP), a key Obama administration “legacy goal” which was…
Larry Bell
Will Climate Alarmism Abate as Disaster Fails to Materialize?
Let’s finally clean the air on hysterical claims that switching from CO2-emitting fossil fuels to anemic and intermittent socalled “renewable” energy sources will quell rising tides of despair for polar bears. And while we’re at it, let’s recognize that no sane person doubts that climate changes — always has, always will — although it just…
Paul Driessen
Pretend conservatives for not so clean energy
Far-left ‘charitable’ foundations give millions to ‘conservative’ groups to drive climate agenda More and more conservatives are proclaiming the virtues of clean energy. At least that’s what some groups want you to believe. In reality, farleft “charitable” foundations have given pretend conservatives millions of dollars to advance a climate chaos, renewable energy agenda – channeling…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
The Week That Was April 22nd, 2017
Joint Petition to Reconsider: Although not discussed in prior TWTWs, SEPP joined the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in filing a joint petition to the EPAto reconsider its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, endanger public health and welfare. The petition was filed on February 17, 2017, and slightly revised on February 23. Such…