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GIGO-based energy and climate policies

Things are never quiet on the climate front. After calling dangerous manmade climate change a hoax and vowing to withdraw the USA from the Paris agreement, President Trump has apparently removed language criticizing the Paris deal from a pending executive order initiating a rollback of anti-fossil-fuel regulations, to help jumpstart job creation. Meanwhile, EPAAdministration Scott…

Conservation – not more control

Collusive lawsuits helped control more US lands. Congress must repeal and replace the ESA. President Obama’s parting edicts betrayed Israel and commuted prison sentences for terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera and traitor Bradley/Chelsea Manning. Another abused the Antiquities Act yet again, by banning economic use on an additional 1.7 million acres in Utah, where the federal…

Public/Private Partnerships: Government-Sanctioned Monopolies

President Trump is calling for a major new investment for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure of highways, bridges and more. There is no question that it needs to be done. However, it’s vitally important that local, state and federal government agencies avoid calls to fund this massive effort through so-called Public/Private Partnerships (PPPs). Local officials must…

How Do We Get the Economy the Fuel It Needs to Grow?

U.S. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue speaking in Chicago before the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. Key Takeaway Poor financial regulations are holding back businesses of all sizes from growing. “We’ve cut off the fuel supply” to businesses, U.S. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue explained in Chicago. “And guess what—America’s economic engine is sputtering.”…