The Hidden Cost of California’s ‘Green’ Tire Mandate: Fewer Choices, Shorter Tread Life – Tire efficiency rule could ban every aftermarket tire you actually want
https://climatechangedispatch.com/california-tire-efficiency-regulation/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email by Kerry Jackson On the surface, it might appear to be minor. Nothing too big. But from seemingly insignificant rules come sweeping, burdensome regulatory frameworks. [some emphasis, links added] The plan is only to outlaw a particular type of automobile tire for fuel-economy purposes, but it gives regulators the power to police anything they […]
Socialist Mayor of Paris rejects installing AC in homes: ‘Individual air conditioning is a scourge – it makes the problem worse by heating the city even more’ – Instead urges ‘cooling collective spaces’ – ‘We need to change our way of life’
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2026/06/25/paris-mayor-gregoire-on-the-climate-crisis-to-adapt-together-we-need-to-change-our-way-of-life_6754853_5.html French Newspaper LeMonde asks: ‘Should residents also install air conditioning in their homes?’ Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire (Parti Socialiste): “It can be useful for cooling collective spaces and protecting the most vulnerable populations, but individual air conditioning is a scourge – it makes the problem worse by heating the city even more. That is […]
The EU’s Green War on Farmers Never Ends – ‘The great European farmer revolt’
open.substack.com/pub/tilakdoshi/p/the-eus-green-war-on-farmers-never?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2241724&post_id=203781650&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1g0x4t&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4NzM4Mjk3MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MjAzNzgxNjUwLCJpYXQiOjE3ODI1MjQ3NjgsImV4cCI6MTc4NTExNjc2OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTIyNDE3MjQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.yL2RXAW5e1L-DB2n6dVk8m2rg0SJVyprvrR3ZtqrUqk By TILAK DOSHI Excerpt: A post on X on Tuesday by Dutch commentator Armand van Westen that has been circulating revisits the nitrogen debate in Dutch agriculture. Responding to a video by physicist and science journalist Arnout Jaspers – author of De Stikstoffuik (The Nitrogen Trap), the 2023 book that became a number-one bestseller in the Netherlands – van Westen […]