The SEC’s Climate-Disclosure Rules Violate the First Amendment

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This article summarizes the argument of the author’s more technical article, “What’s ‘Controversial’ About ESG? A Theory of Compelled Commercial Speech under the First Amendment.” The SEC is on the cusp of enacting rules to compel companies to disclose “climate risk.” Commentators have critiqued the rules as misguided and beyond the SEC’s statutory authority. But the proposed

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Biden Ethanol Increase Will Worsen Food Costs, Gas Pains

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The Biden administration is implementing a temporary ethanol fix in a desperate attempt to reduce political fallout from skyrocketing gas pump prices resulting from its war on fossil fuels which will only add to inflationary food costs. New EPA requirements will now increase the amount of the corn alcohol product that must be blended into

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India’s Coal Proliferation Contradicts Global Climate Drama

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We have a crisis in India, and it is not with the climate. Power plants for the world’s second-largest consumer of coal are running out of stock, leaving a billion people at the risk of blackouts and forcing industries to close facilities. To resolve the situation, the Indian government has authorized increased importation of thermal coal, removed

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Germany’s Green Energy Fixation Should Teach US a Lesson

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Germany’s new Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government vice chancellor and economic minister Robert Habeck, a leading member of his country’s Green Party, has experienced a rude lesson regarding the disastrous consequences of his years of naïve opposition to fossil fuels. After tasking his top officials to assess the energy security implications of Germany’s dependence on Russian supplies in

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Must Fossil Fuel Extraction Be Stopped to Limit Global Warming?

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“Fossil Fuel Extraction Must Be Stopped to Limit Global Warming.” That’s the headline of an article at Earth.com, an environmental activist website. It purports to convey the message of a study published May 17, 2022, in Environmental Research Letters, “Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5°C,” though the study makes no such claim. According to

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