"The biggest chunk of the proposal targets the country’s roads and bridges with $299 billion in spending and represents more than half of the total framework. It also pitches $65 billion for improving U.S. broadband infrastructure and $61 billion toward public transit systems."
On Earth Day, Let’s Commit to Speeding Up Growth to Clean Up Earth
The question is how to get there. Some point to big government solutions, such as the Green New Deal with its regulations and taxes, or the Paris Agreement, which merely gives China a political and public relations pass to continue saying one thing while doing another.
John Kerry: Governments, Private Sector Must Work Together on Climate
"In an interview with WSJ’s Timothy Puko, U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry explains the roles he’d like to see the private sector and countries play in fighting climate change."
The New and Improved Green New Deal Is Still Insane
"Now, we’re on the third iteration, which seems to be piecemeal version of the old plan. What is the Green New Deal now? Everything, still. Infrastructure. Transit. Food."
Republican and Democrat join forces to break US reliance on China for critical materials
"The bill would also create a grant program at the Interior Department to fund pilot projects to produce critical minerals, offering $50 million each year for three years starting in fiscal year 2022, according to the bill text."
Paging AOC: Free Economies Result In Better Environments
"A sweeping new study, Free Economies are Clean Economies, released yesterday by the Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions calls into question the climate policy orthodoxy espoused by progressives that relies on the heavy hand of regulation, higher taxes, central planning, and eliminating entire industries that are critical to the prosperity of our nation. The report confirms that, to tackle climate change, relying on markets and innovation is the more promising approach."
Cleaned by Capitalism: How Economic Freedom Creates a Healthier Environment
While global issues such as climate change are complex, the best way to tackle it is through economic freedom.
It’s time to bring back the Budget committees to the congressional budget process
This year, the last set of negotiated discretionary spending levels has expired. Restoring the role of the Budget committees to serve as the clearinghouse for reviewing all aspects of the president’s budget request and establishing the upcoming fiscal year’s discretionary spending totals would be beneficial.
The US May Be Getting Smaller, But Our Natural Gas Exports Are Getting Bigger
"The necessity of U.S. LNG is therefore three-pronged: 1) limit Russia’s rising geopolitical influence in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere; 2) give the developing world access to an affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy source; and 3) create economic opportunities here at home, namely tens of thousands of high-paying jobs and tens of billions of dollars in taxes and other fees."
Lower- and middle-class Americans will pay a fortune for Biden’s wind-power plan
"The EIA projections enable us to estimate how much Biden’s wind flotilla will cost consumers. If all 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind are built and the turbines operate at a 50 percent capacity factor (meaning they produce at full output half of the time), they will generate about 131.4 million megawatt-hours per year. At $121 per megawatt-hour, that energy will cost about $15.9 billion per year."