Agricultural subsidies stifle innovation, distort markets and have negative environmental impacts.
Author: Nick Loris
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Climate Entrepreneurship is Essential to Addressing Climate Change
The role for public policymakers is make it easier for entrepreneurs and investors to do what they do best: innovate, raise levels of prosperity and contribute to solutions that are good for the planet.
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Investments in Resilient Infrastructure Will Protect Against Extreme Weather
The immediate focus should be to help those communities in need. Policymakers must implement reforms today that will pave the way for tomorrow’s resilient infrastructure.
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Prioritize Forest Management to Reduce Wildfire Risk
We cannot ignore the current and future impact of climate change on wildfires and other extreme weather events. But focusing solely on climate change misses the forest for the trees. If we ignore forest management and restoration, we’ll have far fewer of them.
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On Addressing Climate Risk and Uncertainty
Jonathan Adler has an insightful piece in The Bulwark arguing that conservatives need to engage in the climate policy debate. Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University, correctly cuts to the chase of what the mainstream body of climate literature says: anthropogenic warming is unequivocally real and poses a risk to our planet. online...
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Accelerates Energy R&D, Conservation, and Regulatory Reform
The bill takes important steps forward on energy research, development and demonstration, environmental conservation and remediation and improving several regulatory processes.
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Carbon Tariffs Hurt Consumers, Fail to Protect the Environment
Rather than inflict economically harmful taxes and regulations, policymakers should work make decarbonization a competitive advantage, not a handicap. Innovative companies can deliver affordable, reliable energy and reduce emissions.
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On Climate, the U.S. Should be Tough on China
Being tough on China is not downplaying the risks of climate change or the role that China plays as the world’s largest emitter. It’s operating in the real world.
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Cryptocurrency can be a Force for Environmental Good
Cryptocurrency can accelerate the deployment of greener technologies.
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For International Agreement on Climate, Turn to Free Enterprise
Rather than focus primarily on government finance and regulating certain fuels out of existence, policymakers should pursue reforms rooted in free enterprise that raise peoples’ standards of living and mobilizes private investments in cleaner technologies.
