Bring Back Our Dinosaurs

November 10, 2023

Four people have been indicted for allegedly purchasing and selling 150,000 pounds of “paleontological resources,” meaning dinosaur bones, taken from public lands in southeastern Utah. They are accused of exporting over $1 million worth of fossil bones, committing several felonies violating the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. That law prohibits removing paleontological resources without a permit, […]

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No More Flights to Grand Junction

November 3, 2023

New York banning gas stoves and furnaces in all new construction has not produced any reductions in global carbon emissions. More federal regulation of dishwashers and air conditioners has not done the trick. Seventeen states banning the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035 is apparently not enough, either. Nothing climate activists have proposed so far […]

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Walk This Way, But Not Today

October 27, 2023

Most of us are unaware of the caliber of disaster caused by some member of the U.S. Popcorn Board revealing how another member voted in a popcorn referendum. But no worries. The Department of Agriculture is keenly aware of the danger and has made such disclosures a federal crime to protect us from any future […]

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Nuclear Power: Good Business or Good Politics?

October 18, 2023

The drive to reduce carbon emissions has changed the worldwide discussion of energy in recent years, no longer focused mainly on the politics of oil, but on various forms of “renewable” energy. I’ve always thought that term somewhat ironic because all energy is renewable. We can use the sun, wind, and water without using them […]

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Comparing the New CCC To The Original

October 13, 2023

One paragraph in President Biden’s 2021 inauguration-day climate policy executive order directed a feasibility study for a new CCC, a “Civilian Climate Corps.” Congressional committees asked: What exactly would it do? They have asked about it only occasionally since then, so the President has issued an executive order creating the new program, now called the […]

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Fourteen Cities I’m Not Moving To

October 6, 2023

I’m not going to move to Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., or Seattle. You can’t make me, so don‘t try. Those cities have all joined what they call “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,” which has the most bizarre list of “ambitious targets” […]

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Decisions Based on Science, or Spirits?

September 29, 2023

The Interior Department marked its 172nd anniversary two years ago by recommitting itself to science-based decision-making, instructing its employees to follow the best available science at every turn. It was intended to realign agency procedures with the Data Quality Act of 2000, which set scientific information quality, integrity, and reproducibility standards for information disseminated by federal […]

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Training Kids to Use Dangerous Weapons

September 22, 2023

Are we teaching kids to use dangerous weapons that create a more violent world, or how not to do so? Apparently, that depends on whether you ask the U.S. Department of Education (DoEd), or the governments of all 50 states. In the 2022 “Safer Communities Act,” Congress included a provision eliminating funding for school programs […]

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California Condors on Mt. Garfield?

September 8, 2023

The Endangered Species Act turns 50 this year, while the Administration is proposing a new interpretation of one of the law’s central definitions – and almost nobody has noticed. An Internet search for the proposal turns up an Interior Department press release, but almost no news stories, commentary, or analysis.     The law defines an […]

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BLM’s Investment in a Better America

September 1, 2023

Last week we mentioned the Administration’s “Investing in America Agenda,” and how the Interior Department is spending $44 million of its windfall share of the recent massive spending bills. It is ironic, to say the most, to call government spending “investment,” when all it really amounts to is more employees, more offices, more reports, rules, […]

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