The EPA announced today that it would rescind a 2009 rule that the EPA uses to justify regulating greenhouse gas emissions. If finalized, all greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor…
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday announced it would propose to repeal burdensome greenhouse gas emissions standards for the power sector. The press release states: Ensuring affordable and reliable energy supplies…
Today, the Supreme Court rightsized the scope of National Environmental Policy Act reviews by an 8-0 decision. It could well be a landmark ruling for lower courts because it decides…
As of this Thursday, Minnesotans are free from California’s onerous electric vehicle mandate. The Senate on Thursday voted 51-44 to overturn the Biden administration’s approval of California’s Clean Air Act…
Happy Earth Day! Today is a day to celebrate human flourishing and the ability of capitalism, innovation, and property rights to better conserve the environment than top-down mandates. Between 1970…
More exciting news on the permitting front! The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County. It’s a case that has significant implications…
Eight states, including North Dakota, have petitioned for the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to California’s zero-emissions vehicle mandate. Historically, California was granted an exception to nationwide emissions standards…
The EPA recklessly endangers U.S. electricity generation.
Minnesota will adopt California’s car mandates requiring an increase in electric vehicles offered for sale and decreased tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take…
The Institute for Energy Research (IER) has an excellent article detailing the recent regulations drafted in California to limit the sale and use of diesel-powered trucks in the Golden State.…
What Minnesotans can expect from Democrat-led environmental policies.
On Tuesday, Minnesota Democrats won control of the Governor’s mansion, the House of Representatives, and the State Senate, giving the DFL unified control of the legislature for at least the…
Minnesotans could be paying the price for California’s green policies.
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in West Virginia vs. EPA, ruling that the Clean Air Act did not specifically authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse…
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in West Virginia vs. EPA, ruling that the Clean Air Act did not specifically authorize the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas…
Today, I’ll be testifying in the Minnesota State Senate on Senate File 450, which would effectively prohibit the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency from imposing California car mandates in Minnesota. You…
Governor Tim Walz wants to mandate that Minnesotans accept California’s controversial car regulations.
Presidential hopeful Joe Biden wants to take a page from California’s energy playbook and ban the sale of gas-powered cars, according to a report in E&E News. Biden’s climate plan,…
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Frustrated…
In September, the Walz Administration announced its intention to force Minnesotans to comply with low-emissions vehicle (LEV) and ‘zero’-emissions vehicle (ZEV) regulations developed by unelected bureaucrats on the California Air…
Earlier this summer American Experiment signed on to a coalition letter circulated by the American Energy Alliance supporting the Trump Administration’s efforts to prevent California from dictating fuel economy standards…
Wind and solar are often touted as “clean” sources of energy, but the evidence showing that this simply isn’t true is mounting. From large landfills used to dispose of the…
You’d never know it from the media’s selective coverage of the environment. But our nation’s air quality has vastly improved over the past several decades, even as the economy tripled…
Conservative author and academic Steve Hayward discusses three upcoming papers for Center of the American Experiment.