Tag: Environment
Tag: Environment
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President Elect Trump Should Allow Senate to Reject Paris Climate Agreement
When it’s all said and done, the lasting legacy of the Obama presidency may end up being a clearer understanding of the risks associated with implementing a policy agenda largely…
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Resolution Urging the President and Congress to Abide by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to Establish a Permanent Geologic Repository for Used Nuclear Fuel and Defense-Related High-Level Radioactive Waste
WHEREAS, America’s 99 commercial nuclear plants generate 20 percent of the Nation’s electricity with remarkably high levels of efficiency and reliability while producing zero emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases;…
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While You Were Regulating, the Market was Busy Saving the Planet
Clean Power Plan fallout coupled with lessons from energy innovation successes ought to inspire policymakers to seek actual fixes to our environmental challenges instead of needlessly expand the regulatory state.
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New Resolutions from the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force
Earlier this summer, members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) gathered in Indianapolis for the organization’s 43nd Annual Meeting. The nine ALEC task forces gathered to discuss policy ideas…
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President Obama Bypasses Congress By Formally Committing U.S. to Paris Climate Agreement
News broke earlier this month that both the United States and China have agreed to ratify the Paris Climate Agreement. Well, at least China has. Since the People’s Republic…
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President Obama Signs TSCA Reform into Law
Earlier this month, Congress passed legislation updating the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) with broad bipartisan support. As expected, President Obama signed the measure – formally known as…
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Congress Passes Much-Needed TSCA Reform
For going on a decade or so now, the federal government has been paralyzed by partisan gridlock to a degree that some have described as being “unprecedentedly dysfunctional.” Others have…
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Signing of Paris Climate Agreement Begins Today
Today (“International Mother Earth Day,” according to the United Nations), is the first day that participating nations can sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. All indications suggest…
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California Voters to Determine Ultimate Fate of Bag Ban and Tax
A misguided, anti-consumer measure adopted in California a little over a year ago is now coming under further scrutiny. In late 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the…
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Sunshine Week: Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act
During the first part of the 21st century, some of the greatest examples of American ingenuity and achievement took place in and around the oil and gas patches across the…
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Governor Scott Walker Bars Agencies From Preparing for Clean Power Plan
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court made major headlines when it elected to stay implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP). This recently…
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State Withdrawal from Regional Climate Initiatives
WHEREAS, there has been no credible economic analysis of the costs associated with carbon reduction mandates and the consequential effect of the increasing costs of doing business in the State…
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House Votes to Block “Waters of the United States” Rule
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives successfully passed S.J. RES. 22 – a Congressional Review Act (CRA) vote to overturn EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers’…
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Climate Agreement Reached in Paris
After a few sleepless nights of negotiation toward the end of the two-week-long United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP 21/CMP 11), the 195 participating nations signed off…
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Paris Climate Change Talks: What Might an Agreement Look Like?
The Paris climate convention expected to take place later this year represents the culmination of more than 20 years of work by thousands of international delegates. Since the adoption of…
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Clean Power Plan Published in Federal Register
Almost three months after being finalized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the much anticipated Clean Power Plan has been published in the Federal Register. Today’s publication means…
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Paris Climate Change Talks: How Did We Get Here?
The United Nations (UN) has been trying to address the climate change issue for the better part of 20 years now. In some respects, the Paris summit will be the…
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Paris Climate Change Talks: A Primer
Later this year, the eyes of the world will turn to Paris for two weeks as delegates from the international community gather at the United Nations (UN) Climate Change…
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Jonathan Williams and Karla Jones Interviewed on I Spy Radio
Jonathan Williams, Vice President of the ALEC Center for State Fiscal Reform, spoke with Dr. Mark on I Spy Radio in Oregon about the continued trend of Americans moving to…
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Court Issues Nationwide Stay against “Waters of the US” Rule
Big news for the states legally challenging the ongoing EPA “Regulatory Train Wreck.” Earlier today, the Cincinnati-based Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a nationwide stay against…