… the Wolverine State,” the report examines how the neighboring state and province have done economically before and after the dramatic business climate changes enacted in Michigan beginning in 2011. A state economic resurgence has followed in the wake of the reforms, which included an overhaul of the …
… Radio reported recently that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration is proposing $70 million in grants for projects “to combat the effects of climate change connected to high water levels.” The Detroit Free recently reported that “changing climate conditions” have “caused water levels in the Great …
… Institute for Energy Research, a free-market energy research nonprofit. “Of course not. He wants his environmental legacy to be around action on climate change. In fact, his administration did what they could within executive and regulatory authority to stop fossil fuel production, coal included.” Yet …
… Club has opposed nuclear power. Its website states, “The Sierra club remains unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy. Nuclear is no solution to Climate Change and every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on truly safe, affordable and renewable energy sources. Help us work to phase out nuclear …
… Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities, launched the proposal. The environmental group says public transportation systems are needed to curb climate change. The 2018 study, conducted by Transportation Economics Systems, included overly optimistic numbers for passenger traffic, based on Amtrak and …
… who wants to be left alone by the government to live her life in peace. The newlyweds who won’t have any children for fear that they’ll worsen climate change or bring up their children in a dying world. The young parents sitting at their dinner table, looking at a huge energy bill, and deciding between …
… and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.” Charles Lippstreu, president of the Michigan Agri-Business Association, whose Green Agri-Business Program “recognizes proactive sustainability …
… amended bills will continue to impose substantial costs on the average Michigan family while achieving little to nothing to actually address the climate change issue politicians claim they want to solve. Estimates show that taking the state of Michigan to net-zero emissions by 2050 would only reduce global …
… motor companies so that someone else can get a better deal on a second car. It doesn’t become right just because progressives do it in the name of climate change.
… industry, press secretary Danny Wimmer told Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email. The department alleges that the industry contributes to climate change. “The team made up of Sher Edling LLP, DiCello Levitt LLP, and Hausfeld LLP brings an exceptional mix of skilled attorneys who have experience …
… motor companies so that someone else can get a better deal on a second car. It doesn’t become right just because progressives do it in the name of climate change.
… unanimously resolved to reject any international climate change treaty that unduly burdened the U.S. economy … "The Economic Costs of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Legislation," Heritage Foundation Center for … [3] Ben Lieberman, "The Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Act: A Solution Worse Than the Problem," Heritage …
… truth' of global warming." The high cost of fossil fuels and claims of climate change have a sparked a new discussion of energy trends in the United States. … power, which is what we have now, and you factor in the emphasis on climate change and other global goals and challenges, there is absolutely no way that …
… exposed to more CO2, a phenomenon greenhouse operators have observed for years. Indeed, a committee of the U.N.'s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated that a world warming of 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit would so dramatically boost agricultural and forest growth that the resulting gains …
… Simon and Herman Kahn, eds., The Resourceful Earth: A Response to the Global 2000 Report (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984). S. Fred Singer, Global Climate Change (New York: Paragon House, 1989). Robert Jastrow, William Nierenberg and Frederick Seitz, Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem (Ottawa, …
… warming may be occurring, but is neither solely caused by humans nor catastrophic in nature. The Earth is not a closed system, and is prone to climate change due to many factors, including shifting of the Earth’s axis, activity on the surface of the sun, seismic activity, climate fluctuations such as …
… primarily from the Northeast and West Coast, along with several environmental groups, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Given the position on climate change of most environmental groups, and their general aversion to fossil fuel-powered cars, it is not surprising they would appeal the circuit court …
… they used gasoline only. As a global warming remedy, ethanol also falls short — even by the standards of those who blame fossil fuel burning for climate change. Jeff Goodell of Rolling Stone magazine is one such critic. He writes in the June 24, 2007, issue, "Ethanol doesn’t burn cleaner than gasoline." …
… experiencing economic hardship. Given these dire consequences, we shouldn’t surrender our freedom and livelihood to unsubstantiated theories about climate change. Let’s leave the "Go Green" chant to the confines of Michigan State University’s Spartan Stadium. For more information: Duke Energy press release …
… well-respected environmental group, Natural Environmental Resource Fund, engineers fake natural disasters to occur during the organization's global climate change conference. Tellingly, Crichton depicts NERF's operatives as lawyers and activists rather than objective scientists. These apparatchiks will stop …
… antithetical to consumer interests. Planners are working behind the scenes to reshape the Michigan economy by regulation under the pretext of putative climate change. A new brand of entrepreneur has been created, one who zeroes in not on potential markets but on government subsidies attached to planner-favored …
… the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. The researchers hope the unknown processes can be identified to estimate their future potential effect on climate change. For more information, visit http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-41050320090715?sp=true.
… things are being said and written. But what we always keep our focus on here in terms of trying to forecast is just the next six months.” Global climate change has often provided the context for alarmist claims of threats to the quantity of water in the Great Lakes. This formed a backdrop for legislation …
… primarily conservative cause is important and long overdue. Instead, he seeks to find “middle-ground” and “conservative” solutions to contend with climate change, which he too easily surmises deserves such manmade remedies as cap-and-trade schemes. Your writer respectfully disagrees with the diagnosis as …
… unfortunately, quickly revealed his definition of science to be a “majority-of-scientists-concur” gambit for increasing government’s role in combating climate change. In this, he sounds much the same way as the advertising industry’s mad men who attempted to convince potential customers that four out of five …
… energy efficiency and assistance programs for lower income households, light flicker from turbine blades, hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, and climate change. Also addressed were industrial and retail rates for consumers. “Dirty coal plants provide 60 percent of Michigan’s electricity and account for …
… actually a relatively small part of the entire process," he said. "By far and away, the environmental issues, the human health issues, (and) the climate change issues depend much more on what happens other than fracking." However, several experts were careful to put these problems in context and explained …
… regarding the degree to which wind energy depends on fossil fuels. Since no one, it seems, disputes the claim, and hardcore believers in manmade climate change have actually lamented the wind energy-fossil fuel link, the word “alleged” no longer appears to be necessary.
… enemies, at least in a political and ideological sense. To the environmentalists, free markets are not adequately regulated, and are responsible for climate change, the extinction of species, deforestation and a lot of other bad things. To free-market supporters, environmental initiatives kill jobs, innovation …
… administration produced a long list of executive actions to “empower the renewable energy sector and move forward a sensibility among people … that climate change is real.” But separation of powers is being hurried back into vogue in the effort to criticize this executive action as being “all about power.” …
… to respond to Trump administration actions aimed at rolling back environmental regulations and questioning the potential long-term impacts of climate change. At the Washington, D.C. March for Science event, Bill Nye, “the Science Guy,” charged elected officials worldwide with “deliberately ignoring …
… past administration, and thus begin the effort to withdraw that rule.” The news that Pruitt would repeal the Obama administration’s signature climate change regulation went off like a fire alarm in national energy and environmental circles. Groups like the Sierra Club referred to Pruitt’s plan as “a …
… electricity rates, competition in electricity markets, subsidies for renewable energy and the notion that renewable energy could make a difference in climate change in some substantive way. Add to all that the reality that, whatever it rules, the MPSC has the authority to substantially affect the trajectory …
… completely abandon the sources of energy that protected millions of lives recently, telling us that “the world will end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” From there, they springboard to demanding that we switch our energy system to 100 percent renewables by 2030. Unfortunately for the residents …
… mirror the concerns of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who ominously warned that “The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” They claim that “Human beings have irrevocably upset the balance of nature and, as a result, the world is facing the greatest rate of extinction …
… nation today.” To put that in perspective, national security and terrorism followed at 12%, immigration and the economy each polled at 10%, and climate change came in fourth, at 8%. In a similar poll from September 2019, Fox News found that 57% of registered voters surveyed would like to see “minor …
… grid even more fragile and vulnerable to rolling blackouts. Biden has claimed that extreme weather events will become more common because of climate change. But as we have seen in Texas this week, California this past summer, and the Midwest during 2019’s polar vortex, wind and solar can’t be trusted …
… million tons each year. This does $219,300 in daily damage or $80 million in annual damage to the environment through its contribution to global climate change, based on estimates from the Biden administration. Thus, the total cost of replacing Line 5 with taker trucks is $916,000 per day, or $334 million …
… continuity.” Instead, he suggested that we should embrace delay, or “pause–full electricity” service, to help reduce the risks associated with climate change. And, make no mistake, the results of these grid-wide moves toward pause-full utility service are starting to have a profound impact, as dangerous …
… familiarity with cable news and social media know that opening up a discussion on topics like endangered species management, energy production, or climate change can quickly descend into outrage. Impassioned responses like this can discourage frank discussion and makes it difficult to engage with dissenting …
… over from fossil fuels. An immediate transition would be premature, and dangerous. “She (Tlaib) is pontificating about the potential impacts of climate change on dispossessed or disenfranchised groups,” Hayes told CapCon. “But she completely ignores the fact that stopping the use of fossil fuels would …
… groups. These groups have been successful at lobbying policymakers to eliminate fossil fuels and even nuclear energy in support of their extreme climate change agenda. Not only do they push bad science, but they put their agenda ahead of the wellbeing of families, who will face higher prices and cold, …
… harder to produce oil and gas in the U.S. In this case, the Biden administration imposed a rule requiring fiduciaries to consider the effects of climate change and other environmental, social, and corporate governance measures when considering investing in retirement funds. That rule has the effect of …
… incentive to meet certain pre-defined sustainability targets.” Nordea also requires its sustainability-linked loans to “[c]ontribute to combating climate change, for example through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions or energy consumption.” How do these incentives work? SLBs are a sort of “step-up/step-down …
… hands-on environmentalism for this week’s Overton Window podcast. A key Nature Conservancy objective is to make the environment more resilient to climate change. “Fossil fuels have helped us do amazing things but they’re a little bit like spending money from your savings account. We’ve taken a whole bunch …
… expert Alex Epstein. But why would governments mandate that citizens and taxpayers endure expensive and unreliable electric service? To stop climate change? If the United States (the world’s second-largest CO2 emitter) were to go net-zero by 2050, climate modelling indicates it would cool the planet …
… “This is because these programs have been hijacked by other agendas, including choosing winners and losers among competing internet technologies, climate change mandates, price regulations, preferences for hiring union workers, and a lot of red tape,” Bolema told CapCon in an email. A large share of the …
… measured. A recent report by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan agreed, noting that “it is not possible for Michigan to measurably mitigate climate change through state-level emissions-reduction policies.” Erratic power generation drives away businesses and endangers the residents of the state, …
