Tom Friedman, opinion columnist at the New York Times, recently complained that Trump’s tax bill “quickly phases out tax credits enjoyed by utility-scale solar and wind, as well as electric vehicle tax credits.” Well, yes. That’s the point. Instead of the federal government handing out subsidies and selecting winners and losers, we will allow consumers to drive the energy future.
A July 11 post in a Hoboken, New Jersey, parenting group on Facebook pointed to a frustrating trend: “Our utility bill is more than double what it was last month. … Anything we can do about it?” The post had several dozen replies and most of the commenters said their home utility bills had also...
Almost every week seems to bring a new report that plastic is even worse than had been thought for both human and planetary health. This week, it’s a paper in the Lancet that warns of a “grave, growing” danger from the rising tide of the material, and puts its health-related economic costs at more than $1.5 trillion a...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the future of winemaking, offering solutions that balance environmental stewardship, economic growth, and cultural preservation. A new study outlines how AI tools can transform viticulture, wine production, and enotourism. The research paper titled “Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Wine Industry: AI-Driven Management in Viticulture, Wine Production and Enotourism” highlights the untapped potential of...
A massive report studying nearly 14.5 million students in 61 countries found that long-term heat exposure is interfering with students’ abilities to learn —and prolonged heat streaks are only getting worse. Why it matters: Increasingly high temperatures are worsening disparate educational outcomes, with the potential for long-term impacts on graduation rates and cognitive ability to grow as the globe continues to...
Rarely has there been an entrepreneur who dedicated as much of his life to making the world a better place through principled public policy solutions and had such a lasting, positive impact on the world as Edwin J. Feulner, PhD., founder and longtime president of the Heritage Foundation.
Whole Foods Market and Mad Agriculture have launched a landmark initiative to reconstruct native ecosystems across American farmland, beginning in the Lowery Creek Watershed in Wisconsin. The “biodiversity highway” aims to create connected corridors of climate-resilient habitats that restore biodiversity, strengthen soil and water health, and increase the resilience of the U.S. food system. “Teaming up with...
Once perched atop the climate movement’s moral high ground, the self-anointed “climate hawks” are now watching their influence dwindle, and nowhere is that retreat more visible than in California. Long the epicenter of progressive climate ambition, the Golden State is now backpedaling. Democrats who once championed aggressive environmental mandates are hitting pause, reworking regulations, and distancing themselves...
The global scuba diving industry generates between $8.5 billion and $20.4 billion each year, while also providing widespread marine conservation benefits, a new study has found. The diving sector supports up to 124,000 jobs across 170 countries on an annual basis, contributing to both ocean ecology and local communities, according to the study, published Friday...
Last week, the world lost a great servant leader and policy entrepreneur, Edwin J. Feulner, PhD., founder and longtime president of The Heritage Foundation.
I had the honor of working closely with Ed from 2001 to 2005 as his Chief of Staff at The Heritage Foundation. He was my boss, then he was my mentor, and over the years he became my enduring and dear friend.
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