Inside Sources — Many environmentalists are quick to point to the landmark Clean Air Act of 1970 as the beginning of environmental improvement in America. Studies, however, have shown that innovation and market forces led to improvements as much as 40 years before the act went into effect….
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Inside Sources – As the federal debt has gone from astounding to unbelievable to incomprehensible, a new problem has emerged: The U.S. government is actually running out of places to borrow….
Inside Sources – In a small ceremony at the end of September, representatives of the Chinese, British, and French governments gave final approval to the Hinkley Point nuclear plant in the U.K. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like British energy companies won their plea to show the cost of the approximately $27-billion-dollars…
Inside Sources – If we are serious about healing the divisions that plague our nation, Obama should have absolutely nothing to do with pardoning his own former secretary of State. Even if he were ignorant of her malfeasance, he should have nothing to do with pardoning a fellow Democrat.
Inside Sources – President Obama in August used his authority under the antiquities act to designate 87,500 acres of private land in Northern Maine as a national monument. The land belonged to Roxanne Quimby, co-founder of Burt’s Bees…
Inside Sources – The United States has averaged more than $1 billion in spending on wildfire suppression every year since 2000, and spent more than $2 billion in wildfire management for 2015, making up more than half of the U.S. Forest Service budget…
Inside Sources – The presidential election has renewed the debate over conservation versus development on federal public lands. Hillary Clinton has been campaigning on a platform of “collaborative stewardship” to promote both conservation and development. Donald Trump, in his ever-so-eloquent style, said we “have to be great…
Inside Sources – The clean energy mantra is so loud that it often drowns out the feeble cry of energy poverty. Many Americans are finding it more and more difficult to pay their utility bills, yet this important issue is nearly absent from the debate about…
Inside Sources – Last month, the Obama administration introduced additional regulations on methane emissions in the oil and natural gas industry. The new rules seek to both cut methane emissions and cement Obama’s environmentalist legacy. But because of exemptions for government favorites, the new laws will likely fall short…
Inside Sources – U.S. Department of Interior wants to ban mining on 10 million acres of federal lands in order to protect the habitat of the greater sage grouse. That proposal, if implemented, would withdraw from resource development an area four times larger than Yellowstone National Park.
Inside Sources – Is it time for a third party? This is a question that gets asked every four years or so, but it is moot. Americans will have a third party candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. The Libertarian Party is America’s third party. There will also be a Green Party candidate on the ballot in many, but not all states. So that’s four.
Inside Sources – Ivanpah is a 640,000 megawatt-hour solar farm in California that received $1.5 billion in taxpayer-funded federal loans. The project benefited from a loan-guarantee program where taxpayers bear the risks and the solar industry gets favorable rates to protect their profits…
Inside Sources – Strata’s Ryan Yonk and Jadyn Naylor discuss the reality of GMO labelling…
Inside Sources – Strata senior fellow William F. Shuggart II writes about how the shale revolution is revitalizing America’s manufacturing industry…
Inside Sources – When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence 239 years ago, he placed equality and liberty at the heart of the American experiment. His argument was at once philosophical and political: In light of one self-evident truth, equality, humans are by nature free…