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During the Democrat debate between Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice-President Joe Biden on Sunday, March 15, 2020, Vice-President Biden stated that he would allow “no new fracking,” but…
This weekend, a $1.6 trillion spending planned aimed at reducing the economic strain Americans will feel due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus failed to pass out of the Senate because it…
The Senate Democrats reveal that ‘One Minnesota’ is a PR sham, but we wish it weren’t so.
This week the Minnesota House’s Energy and Climate Finance and Policy Division passed H.F. 1405, the Clean Energy First Act. The bill’s companion in the Senate, S.F. 1456, passed in…
How to help young people become independent and analytical thinkers.
If you’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting someone who eats organic food because they think they are saving the world from climate change, you know first hand how insufferable…
In a recent AgriNews editorial entitled “Significant Environmental Impacts Must Be Identified,” Vance and Bonnie Haugen claimed my article detailing how regulating greenhouse gas emissions from a dairy farm in…
With 2020 upon us, I’d like to reflect back on 2019 because it was a banner year for energy and environmental issues here at Center of the American Experiment. Here…
About a month ago I posted an article asking our readers to submit comments to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) opposing the Walz administration’s attempt to foist California’s car…
Wind lobbyists are claiming that steel tariffs enacted by the Trump administration are causing such a large increase to the cost of wind that the industry needs more taxpayer money,…
After “farting cows” were identified as a climate risk to the planet in a document released by the office of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez addressing frequently asked questions about the…
This column originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address…
Renewable energy groups like Fresh Energy are encouraging the City of Minneapolis to follow the precedent set by the City of Berkeley in California by banning natural gas in new…
Talk about bad timing if you’re a green-energy profiteer. Just one day before the scandal that led to the resignation of Representative Jamie Long (DFL) from his hand-crafted job at…
As reported by the Pioneer Press, DFL legislator Jamie Long resigned from his job as an Energy Research Project Specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment after…
The environmental left lost their minds when President Trump announced that the United States would be leaving the Paris Climate Agreement. While renewable energy boosters hurl barbs at President Trump,…
We all know that AOC’s Green New Deal is a really dumb idea, but that hasn’t stopped a Republican Congressman from Florida from proposing his own legislation that closely resembles…
Elizabeth Warren visited Minnesota last week to hold a campaign rally in her bid to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. At the rally, Warren waded into two highly controversial…
Natural gas is a powerful resources that is saving thousands of lives every single year. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled…
Hi everyone! Don’t forget to mark your calendars for my August 27th talk discussing our award-nominated study (vote here!) Doubling Down on Failure: How a 50 Percent by 2030 Renewable…
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 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]. Picture Minnesota. Do…
The Minnesota Conservative Energy Forum is conservative in the same way that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is both democratic, and a republic. That's why it takes money from leftist…
Metro politicians push an urban agenda that has real costs for Greater Minnesota