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Don’t panic over ‘forever’ chemicals

Our ability to detect tiny amounts is improving

… in these issues in recent decades, however, has taken a back seat to climate change. But with the growing attention paid to so-called “forever chemicals,” … these reasons, policy decisions deserve wide-open debate. For many, climate change is a higher priority — either because of its forecasted impacts or …

If You Can't Tax Coal, Kill It With Regulation

… expensive to use that other forms of alternative energy could compete economically. The preferred strategy to eliminate coal is the Waxman-Markey Climate Change legislation, which is more commonly referred to as Cap and Trade or, increasingly, Cap and Tax. A recent study by the Heritage Foundation estimates …

Gov. Granholm Gambling on Michigan's Economic Future With Energy Subsidies

… Among scandals which are calling into question the scientific validity of anthropogenic global warming, the meltdown of the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change and frigid temperatures and record snowfall gripping much of the nation, it appears federal legislation that forces more expensive alternative …

How Federal Money Doesn't Translate Into Jobs

… 6,000 to 8,000 lakes in 17 states over five years. In the process of finding out why some lakes are more sensitive than others to land-use and climate changes, the project will employ 17 people each year, most of them graduate and post-graduate assistants in fresh water ecology. Some of them will attend …

'Best Article on Wind Farms You Will Ever Read'

… conventional parties across Europe, deny the most obvious of truths? To play lethal games with our energy systems in order to honour the whimsical god of climate change is as intelligent and scientific as the Aztec sacrifice of their young. Actually, it is far more frivolous, because at least the Aztecs knew how …

Michigan voters reject repeal of right-to-work law

Even a liberal poll finds a minority want the law overturned

… support, oppose or aren’t sure about a series of policy issues the Legislature could tackle in 2023. On almost every issue – from abortion to climate change to subsidies for farmers of color – the poll showed majority support for the left-wing position. That should raise some questions about the sample …

Why strategic infrastructure beats mass beta testing

Politicians throw out the tried and true for the green and inadequate

… Western world from strategic infrastructure and toward the vagaries of climate change. At the same time, they have convinced most of us that strategic infrastructure … across the Western world. Many of us still see the environment and climate change as an issue like the economy or gun rights. But for others today, the …

Study: Ontario Should Look to Michigan

… 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 …

Mackinac Center in the news: Whitmer brings on the night

Jason Hayes tells inconvenient truths about governor’s energy plan

… 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 …

The market speaks – against electric vehicles

Ford lost $3.7 billion on its EV sales

… 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.