C3 Solutions has spoken with both Moore and Westerman as a part of our Right Voices interview series. Both are principled conservatives who care deeply for the environment and believe in improving our world for future generations. Under their leadership, conservatives in Congress will continue to offer durable and sustainable solutions to energy, environmental, and climate issues.
Supreme Court Can and Should Resolve ‘Waters of the United States’ Issue
"By clarifying that the standard for WOTUS, including wetlands, should be based on Scalia’s plurality opinion in Rapanos, the Supreme Court will ensure that the agencies have the clear guidance they need to develop a WOTUS regulatory definition that does properly reflect Supreme Court decisions, the Clean Water Act, and the Constitution. Absent this, there will be continued confusion."
GOP North Dakota senator says he wants to tackle climate change
"If we start with the things that we already have some bipartisan agreement on - and by the way, a couple of those things are in the BBB, in the Build Back Better climate package. And they include carbon capture utilization and storage, bringing back more of nuclear power into the United States. Yeah. I'm always going to be interested in being at the table until it gets ridiculous."
California’s Solar-Power Welfare State
"The dirty little secret about green energy subsidies is that they are welfare for the wealthy. And like any entitlement, they are hard to reform once people get hooked. Witness the revolt by the rich against a California proposal to scale back subsidies for rooftop-solar panels."
Biden’s Solar Panel Tariffs Make It Costlier To Meet Biden’s Climate Goals
Eric Boehm of Reason writes on Biden’s solar tariffs. >>>One Simple Trick that Biden can do to Accelerate Clean Energy<<< “The administration wants to force consumers to pay higher prices to please domestic solar companies (which petitioned the White House to extend the tarrifs), then use tax dollars to offset the artificially higher prices with...
Daines, Tester introduce bipartisan bill to help clean up Montana’s abandoned mines
"Montana has approximately 6,000 abandoned hardrock mines according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Organizations that have no legal or financial responsibility to an abandoned mine – true Good Samaritans – want to participate in reclamation. Unfortunately, liability and bureaucratic red-tape could leave these Good Samaritans legally liable for circumstances outside of their control, even though they had no involvement with the mine prior to cleaning it up."
The RNC Should be Opposing AOC, not Liz Cheney
Branding a riot as “legitimate political discourse” distracts from AOC’s illegitimate assault on economic freedom
The opportunity cost of not using nuclear energy for climate mitigation
"In the United States, closures of nuclear power plants in Vermont, New York and elsewhere have led to increased natural gas use and greenhouse gas emissions."
New White Paper Outlines How Policymakers Should Discuss Climate Change
While the U.S. should indeed reduce its carbon footprint in a way that is economically viable, CRES points out that there should be a greater emphasis on China and the developing world’s role.