By Rice University Nutrient-rich ash from an enormous flare-up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs’ reign kicked off a chain of events that led to the formation of shale gas and oil fields from Texas to Montana. That’s the conclusion of a new study by Rice University geologists that appears this week…
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A Billion-Dollar Plan No One Should Follow
Ontario’s plans to reduce plant food would kill jobs and do nothing to control Earth’s climateBy Tom Harris In its March 19 Speech from the Throne, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government asserted, “you cannot be serious about lowering emissions and fighting climate change without a price on carbon pollution.” Nowhere did the speech specify what…
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WILL Testifies on Civil Forfeiture Reform
Bill safeguards civil liberties, increases transparency Milwaukee, WI – Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) Research Fellow Collin Roth testified Tuesday on AB 122/SB 61, a bill to reform Wisconsin’s civil forfeiture laws, in the Assembly Committee on State Affairs. Civil forfeiture is a practice whereby a law enforcement agency can seize, litigate, and…
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John Doe Agents Get Legal Counsel – At Taxpayer Expense
By M.D. Kittle MADISON, Wis. – Three former agents in Wisconsin’s infamous “John Doe II” investigation now have attorneys representing them – at state taxpayer expense. Francis Schmitz, who served as special prosecutor in the unconstitutional probe into dozens of conservative groups and Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, requested and was “appointed special counsel relating to…
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FoxConn Facts
By Keith Best Governor Walker was quoted in a tweet; “once upon a time, Democrats claimed to be for goodpaying, family-supporting jobs. Now they seem to find new ways to attack them”. According to Bloomberg News, seven states were in the final bidding war for the Foxconn plant which has ultimately been awarded to Wisconsin…
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EPA should ignore anti-coal activists at listening sessions
By Dr. Howard Hayden and Tom HarrisThe first of three new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public listening sessions on the proposed repeal of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) will be held this coming Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri. Later sessions will be held on February 28 in San Francisco and March 27 in Gillette,…