It seems like clueless liberal environmentalists want to force us to use expensive, unreliable, wind and solar energy, but they don’t want any mines to produce the copper, nickel or…
There’s been a fun exchange in the Litchfield Independent Review among Representative Gruenhagen and a member of the public who was defending the Green New Deal. The latest article features…
Everyone seemed to have forgotten a basic lesson: when goods cross borders, armies won’t.
Yesterday the Trump administration finalized the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, which is designed to improve efficiency at coal-fired power plants. As a result, these plants would produce more electricity…
Yesterday I posted about how India is building a lot of coal-fired power plants. These power plants would have a generation capability equal to building the Sherburne County (Sherco) coal-fired…
During the legislative session, we heard Governor Walz, House DFL members, and liberal environmentalists call climate change an “existential crisis,” several times (give or take a million). This so-called crisis…
It's the elasticities, stupid.
Minnesota's exporters are doing well despite the trade war. Imagine how much better they could be doing without it.
The following article as written by Duggan Flanakin at CFACT.org: History was made in March when federal officials gave the green light for construction and operation of copper mines in…
The tactics of today's campus 'anti-fascists' are descended from the actual fascists of yesteryear
How a 50 percent renewable energy mandate would cost Minnesota $80.2 billion.
The Minnesota House of Representatives has proposed spending $550,000 on a study to be conducted by the University of Minnesota exploring the impacts of climate change in Minnesota. What’s unique…
Socialists don’t intend for socialism to be oppressive and economically inefficient, it just works out that way every single time. Why? Kristian Niemietz of the Institute of Economic Affairs explains.
Real-world teaching tools will combat easy-answer policy solutions.
Governor Walz has made expanding electric vehicle (EV) usage in Minnesota a high priority for his administration. In February, the Department of Transportation announced that transit officials want 20 percent…
Bloomberg reports that El Niño has caused electricity generation from wind turbines to plummet by approximately 14 percent in the Midwest this year. Apparently, it is quite common that wind…
On Tuesday, January 22, 2019, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) delivered a presentation to the Minnesota House of Representatives detailing the condition of the state’s air. In what may…
Claims by environmental groups that electric cars would soon be flying off the shelves seem to have missed a key player in making that claim come true: automakers. Rather than…
Solar advocates often emphasize the fact that the cost of solar panels has fallen about 80 percent in the last ten years, and use this cost decline to project even…
Wind and solar simply aren’t working, and these inefficient and unreliable technologies are a key reason the Paris Climate Accord is a dismal failure. The article below is a sobering…
Japan has taken aggressive steps to restart their nuclear power program by restarting five nuclear reactors in 2018. According to the Energy Information Administration, these nuclear reactors have a capacity…
It’s always a satisfying day when something is written about how ideas truly do matter in American life, with many of the most important and influential ideas conceived, refined, and…
Companies throughout Australia are reconsidering whether they will indeed bring manufacturing jobs back from China after experiencing enormous increases in electricity prices as a result of the closure of an…
We often hear from so-called progressives that we must fight income inequality and move toward renewable energy, but the problem is these two goals are incompatible with each other. This is…