Pennsylvania

Green Watch
Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: No Discernable Benefits
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…
by Kevin Mooney on September 10, 2021

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Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: Disputing the Official Findings and Data
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…
by Kevin Mooney on September 10, 2021

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Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: Green Activism in Pennsylvania
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,…
by Kevin Mooney on September 10, 2021

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Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: Carbon Taxes and Constitutional Questions
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…
by Kevin Mooney on September 10, 2021

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Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists: Pennsylvania’s Big Funders
Pennsylvania is the main battlefield in the environmental Left’s effort to “green” the country with radical policies that promise to raise the cost of electricity, household appliances, and grocery bills—all…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on June 2, 2021

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Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists: PennFuture
PennFuture and Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania form a 501(c)(3)-501(c)(4) pair of activist nonprofits that aim to totally wipe out the state’s reliance on coal, natural gas, and oil, which it…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on June 2, 2021

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Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists: PEC and PennEnvironment
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is a lobbying group with roots in the radical environmental movement of the early 1970s. The group was founded in 1970 to combat “the ravages…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on June 2, 2021

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Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists: Pennsylvanians Against Fracking
Left-leaning foundations outside Pennsylvania clearly understand how critical the commonwealth is to the oil and gas industry, which explains why they are funding climate change initiatives in the Keystone State…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on June 2, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Zuckerberg’s Return on Investment in Pennsylvania—UPDATED
Arguments over this year’s vote in Pennsylvania continue to rage, but one critical aspect deserves more attention: the millions of dollars that flowed from the family of Facebook CEO Mark…
by Scott Walter on May 20, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Leftists in Pennsylvania Outspent Conservatives 3 to 1 in 2020
It’s time for the myth that conservatives outspend liberal elections groups to go the way of the dodo. New research examining the 2020 election in Pennsylvania reveals that left-wing political…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on May 12, 2021