After years of rent control and billions poured into affordable housing, California lawmakers are finally realizing that the only way to make housing affordable is to build more homes. On…
The California grid operator, the California Independent Systems Operator (CAISO), has declared an electric grid reliability emergency and is asking the federal Department of Energy to suspend air-pollution rules for…
Misattributing fires to climate change is a sign of apocalyptic environmentalism The following article was written by Michael Shellenberger on Substack: After a dramatic video of a fire on the…
California is learning the hard way that people will grow impatient with unreliable energy sources, and this could lead to rolling blackouts this summer in the Golden State. The problem…
The following article was written by Chuck Devore, and it appeared in The Federalist: California’s electric grid operator declared a “Flex Alert” Friday morning, showing all that mandated solar and…
California is reeling from decades of bad energy policy, and it is now expecting residents living in saner states to pay for their mistakes. On Friday, July 9, 2021, and…
The following article was written by Michael Shellenberger at Substack: Journalists, experts, and elected officials are today blaming heat wave deaths, forest fires, and electricity shortages in New York, California,…
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…
In December, then president-elect Joe Biden pledged to reopen a “majority” of schools by the end of his first 100 days as president. This then shifted to a majority of…
It looks like the American people will get a taste of the Green New Deal now that the Biden administration will have a supportive Senate.
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal detailed the skepticism of Toyota’s president, Akio Toyoda, toward electric vehicles. This is a big deal because Toyota was the third-largest vehicle manufacturer in…
The concept of “environmental justice” has gained increasing traction among liberal lawmakers who claim that past energy and environmental policies have left low income and minority communities less able to…
With the presumptive win of Joe Biden to the presidency, it make sense to what the future will look like for our country over the next four years. Unfortunately, when…
The following article originally appeared in the Babylon Bee: SACRAMENTO, CA—Thanksgiving is going to look a little different this year in California. Last week the California legislature updated the holiday…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr for episode 267 of the In The Tank Podcast. The In The Tank crew discusses…
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,…
In a classic example of progressive policy coming to terms with economic reality, the California legislature has passed an amended version of its AB5 law that was passed in 2019.…
On September 28, 2020, Andrew Wheeler, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency issued the letter below to California Governor, Gavin Newsom, regarding his executive order eliminating the sale of…
Yesterday, I posted an article by California Assemblyman Jim Cooper, a Black Democrat in California, who said the state’s renewable energy mandates were punishing low income, minority communities. Today, I’m…
In what can only be described as the greatest pairing in all of human history, John Stossel and Michael Shellenberger team up to discuss wildfires in California. The massive, deadly…
Yesterday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed and executive order that will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel powered cars and trucks in California by 2035. This is exactly why…
The following article originally appeared in Forbes. It was written by Michael Shellenberger. Fires have burned 1.3 million acres of California’s forests over the last month. That’s one million acres more than…
California is giving America a preview of the Green New Deal. Millions of families have had their power shut off because of the bad decisions made by politicians. These politicians…
The following article originally appeared in The Babylon Bee U.S.—Governors across the country have reinstated lockdowns mere weeks after slowly starting to lift them, citing a “concerning spike” in jobs and…