Topic: Environmentalism

How to Really End ESG

– September 13, 2024

“It’s incumbent upon ESG critics to advocate an alternative vision, not merely to fall in line with convention.” ~Russell Greene

Environmentalism, Fiscal Policy, Inflation

Trillion-Dollar Surprise in the Inflation Reduction Act

– August 8, 2024

“All this adds up to an open tab that renewable energy companies can use over and over again and that taxpayers will pick up. Unless Congress acts to close these loopholes, a $35 trillion debt will look quaint when the US surpasses $45 trillion or even $50 trillion in the 2030s.” ~Paul Mueller

Environmentalism

Hurricanes and Other Evil Winds

– July 31, 2024

“Extreme headlines fit a generally understood narrative and are far more likely to be absorbed by the public. This selective attention pushes a bias toward extremism in climate reporting that significantly inflames the political climate.” ~Paul Schwennesen

Energy, Environmentalism, Policy

Why the ‘Green Economy’ Is Suddenly in Retreat—in EU, US, and on Wall Street

– July 30, 2024

“Green parties and environmentalists have had success largely by getting people to focus on the desired effect of their policies (saving people from climate change) and to ignore the costs of their policies.” ~Jon Miltimore

Environmentalism, Media, Science

How Climate Catastrophists at NOAA Mislead without Lying

– July 25, 2024

“When it comes to ‘missing context’ about climate change, official government agencies can be among the worst offenders, not just on social media but also on agency websites.” ~E. Calvin Beisner

Energy, Environmentalism, Regulation, Taxation

The Economic Folly of a Carbon Tax

– July 21, 2024

“Increasing production costs leads to higher prices for goods and services, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income households — especially when they already suffer from high inflation.” ~Vance Ginn

Environmentalism, Financial Markets, Regulation

ESG: A Gordian Knot of the Highest Order

– July 5, 2024

“Thanks to a complex web of CSR initiatives, aid and development programs, progressive intergovernmental agencies, and the do-good posturing of political elites, businesses will further be ensnarled to ESG.” ~Kimberlee Josephson

Environmentalism, Government, Regulation

Freedom and a Funeral for Chevron Deference

– July 4, 2024

“Overturning Chevron should encourage lower courts to police agency assertions of power more closely, but it will not constrain the administrative state so long as Congress persists in enacting broad, poorly written statutes.” ~Jonathan H. Adler

Energy, Environmentalism, Financial Markets, Science

Governments, Not Markets, Impel ESG

– June 4, 2024

“Prominent financial institutions have backpedaled on ESG, with net outflows from ESG funds. This divestment suggests that financial institutions may have overestimated market demand for ESG.” ~Daniel Sutter and Allen Mendenhall

Energy, Environmentalism, Financial Markets, Property Rights

Texas Continues to Push Back Against ESG, But Is It Enough?

– May 23, 2024

“The TPSF manages funds designated for education on behalf of Texas taxpayers. If the funds have lower returns because of asset managers’ ESG crusades, Texas taxpayers are on the hook.” ~Paul Mueller and Thomas Savidge

Energy, Environmentalism, Media

‘Consumer Reports’ Jettisons Objectivity on Climate Change

– May 17, 2024

“Scaring the public into action simply does not work — indeed, Chicken Little can proclaim only for a short time that the sky is falling until people begin to see through the ruse that Chicken Little is really Chicken Liar.” ~David Legates and E. Calvin Beisner

Economic Education, Environmentalism, Taxation

When Ideological Bubbles Trump Economic Thinking

– May 17, 2024

“That a Nobel Prize-winning economist can hold these naïve views and fail to use simple economic reasoning should give us pause about how ideology and echo chambers can dull our reasoning.” ~Paul Mueller