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March 12, 2021 Tax Would Start At No Less Than $15 Per Ton, Cap At $60 Per Ton Legislation in the Massachusetts Senate would implement a carbon-dioxide tax beginning in 2023 on the “transportation sector,” 2024 for the “heating and cooling of commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings,” 2025 for “industrial processes,” and 2028 for “residential heating and cooling.” The tax would begin at “not less than” $15 per ton in the first year, and rise by $5 per ton annually...

Last month, when severe cold caused millions in Texas to lose power, many voices, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, pointed to frozen wind turbines and blamed…

California City Bans New Gas Stations in Latest Climate Change Effort Here’s how this unprecedented restriction will backfire. Wednesday, March 3, 2021 As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the city of Petaluma will ban the construction, expansion, rebuilding, and relocating of gas stations after a unanimous vote by the City Council. It does so in hopes of forcibly speeding up the transition to electric cars with the goal of reaching “carbon neutrality,” net-zero carbon emissions, ...

by Robert Murphy via Mises Amid the controversy over GameStop, many cynics argued that something sinister was clearly afoot because the hedge funds had shorted 138 percent of the outstanding shares. In this article I’ll review that particular claim, as well as another seemingly dubious practice, so-called naked short selling. My conclusion is that shorting more than the total outstanding shares isn’t perverse or fraudulent, whereas naked short selling—depending on the context—mig...

Climate deniers backed violence and spread pro-insurrection messages before, during, and after January 6 As the mass radicalization wave surged, some individual opponents of climate action may have been swept along by its broad rightward push, propelling them closer to endorsing political violence. On the evening of January 6, 2021, the day of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former coal mining executive Don Blankenship, who ran against Donald Trump as a third-party candidate in the 20...

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With control of Congress and the White House, Democrats are making labor policy one of their first priorities. Ironically enough, that’s actually bad news for independent contractors and gig economy workers across the country. The legislation at the core of their agenda is the PRO Act, which Democrats just re-introduced with sponsors including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. Among many other things, the bill would severely restrict the legal definit...

Joe Biden Supports 2 Regulations That Would Destroy Entire Industries—and My Job If the American people let Joe Biden have his way with our economy, there will be unintended consequences—that could cost you your job. Thursday, July 9, 2020 Right now, the attention of most Americans is, understandably, captured by the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national debate over criminal justice. But the 2020 presidential election continues to trod along in the background, and Wa...

Michael Shermer, a famous skeptic, was forced to admit that one of the reasons is that  some of them are true. In his research he found that the fact that some conspiracy theories are real feeds people’s suspicion and makes them susceptible to the belief in others that are far less credible. We are increasingly herded into taking a hard line on issues which are nuanced. One example of this is an apparent increase in two camps: some people are entirely against mainstream medicine while other...