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Keystone XL Approved at Last, Now Let’s Move On

By PAUL C. “CHIP” KNAPPENBERGER SHARE Nearly eight-and-a-half years after its initial application, the Keystone XL pipeline project has been given the green light (“subject to a renegotiation of terms by us”) by an executive order signed by President Trump today. Finally. Whether the impetus and economics is still there to build it (with oil […]

ESPN’s The Undefeated Warns Against Ignoring Climate Change ‘Facts’

What do we do if we are increasingly willing to ignore “facts?” According to Jeff Rivers, “we’ll end up in real trouble.” Writing for ESPN’s The Undefeated blog, Rivers writes that when it comes to public policy “we too often allow ideology and political maneuvering to render facts moot, especially when those facts support inconvenient truths such as […]

Cheers! President Trump vows to stop ‘out of control’ environmentalism

President Trump told the chief executives of the country’s largest automobile manufacturers Tuesday that environmental regulations are “out of control” and pledged to make it easier for the companies to open assembly plants in the United States. Trump said that a “very big push” is underway to expand all manufacturing in the United States in an […]