"Under the new [2016] rule, wind companies and other power providers will not face a penalty if they kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles, nearly four times the…
Environmental groups and advocates are spending billions of dollars every year playing politics with America’s energy sector while simultaneously driving up energy costs for Americans, according to Ken Braun, the senior investigative researcher at the Capital…
If nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has repeatedly demonstrated that Big Labor remains a potent force in American culture and politics, even though its power has declined since the 1950s,…
If the “labor conservatives” were Captain Ahab from the classic novel Moby-Dick, their White Whale would be a divorce between institutional organized labor and the environmentalist movement, which they reasonably…
Naming the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4) after the Georgia congressman who died last year may evoke the 1960s Civil Rights movement, but it would federalize elections…
What happens next in Pennsylvania’s legal and legislative battles over proposed climate change regulations will largely depend on who controls the narrative about carbon dioxide emissions and their impact. Since…
In July 2021, the CO2 Coalition, a Virginia-based nonprofit of roughly 70 scientists, released a new report that disputes the findings of Pennsylvania’s 2018 Climate Action Report, which Gov. Wolf…
What exactly is the point of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) if it’s not going to impact the climate? The answers involve political influence, government power, well-endowed special interests,…
A political and state constitutional fight is brewing over Pennsylvania's entry into Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. One line of argument is that the governor and the regulatory commission do not…
Most people have never heard of one of the Left’s potent weapons—“fiscal sponsorship”—yet it’s the secret to the legion of liberal activist groups flooding American politics today.