If you read Your Survival Guy, you know the dangers ESG poses to investors and taxpayers. At the Mises Institute, Douglas French notes the words of Harris Kupperman who believes that the world may be nearing “peak ESG.” French writes: “On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to announce tough new tailpipe emission standards designed […]
Could Bill Gates’ Plan of Feeding Cows Seaweed Hurt Humans?
In his Igor’s Newsletter Substack, Igor Chudov questions the health ramifications of Bill Gates’s plan to feed cows seaweed in order to cut their methane emissions. Chudov writes: What is the feed supplement that Bill Gates wants to feed cows? It is based on seaweed: Bill Gates has led a new $12m investment in an Australian […]
Who Will Pay the Price for LEDs?
Don’t like the weather? Change the lightbulbs. The Biden administration is reportedly moving forward with plans to implement a sweeping nationwide ban in coming weeks on several types of light bulbs. As editors at BRIGHT report, the ban will affect certain halogen and incandescent bulbs that do not meet energy efficiency standards. According to the […]
For the Health of the Planet
No need to maximize returns. In an attempt to put more private capital under the influence of progressive politics, President Joe Biden overruled a bipartisan congressional resolution protecting retirement savings from politized investment decisions. It was the President’s first veto. Like many investment strategies, ESG’s record is mixed, with parameters that are both vague and […]
Climate Fraud Costing Americans Billions of Dollars
Climate change alarmists have been throwing billions of American tax dollars at efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Economist Stephen Moore suggests that those dollars have had little or no impact. Moore writes that “when you spend $100 billion of taxpayer money and achieve absolutely nothing, Biden and his green allies should be arrested for criminal fraud.” […]
Why Banning Gas Stoves Could Use Even More Gas
At the Cato Institute, Peter Van Doren explains why banning natural gas stoves in homes will wind up using more gas. He writes: In Blue America, electricity is in and natural gas is out. The movement to ban natural gas service in new construction started in Berkeley, California in 2019 and has spread to other localities including New […]
Don’t Believe ’em. They’re Coming for Your Gas Stove
Dictating what you drive, where you live, and how you cook: Consumer Product Safety Commission member Richard Trumka, Jr. claims, slippery or not, that “they” aren’t coming for your stove. But don’t believe it, Kimberley Strassel alerts readers in the WSJ. The reason gas stoves are in the news is simple: There is a coordinated, calculated—and […]
How the Biden Administration Is Destroying Our Energy Infrastructure
Foot Soldiers for Leftist Orthodoxy The Manhattan Contrarian is currently involved in a legal case in which Francis Menton’s client seeks to compel EPA to reconsider and revoke the 2009 action by which the agency claimed to determine that CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” constitute a “danger to human health and welfare.” “That agency action […]
Biden Administration Aims to Make Driving Even More Expensive
After ushering in an error of rampant inflation for fuel and necessities, the Biden administration is looking to implement measures via the EPA that will make driving even more expensive for consumers. Eric Niiler reports for The Wall Street Journal: The agency is proposing to lower the current annual standard of 12 micrograms of particulate […]
Tin Foil Lunacy from Big Tech
Originally posted on October 7, 2022. Remember when the Covid-19 virus was dismissed as tinfoil-hat lunacy if anyone wondered if it might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory? Shortly thereafter, reminds the WSJ, experts with scientific standing acknowledged that it was a real possibility to be discussed in earnest. “It’s a bad sign when one […]