Earlier this year, California passed regulations that would turn the trucking industry upside down. New mandates for zero-emissions trucks would disrupt the industry, raise shipping costs, and put trucking companies out of business. A group including 19 states and several trucking organizations recently filed suit to block the California regulation.Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashCalifornia’s Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) Regulation goes into effect on January 1, 2024. The ACF requires that … [Read more...]
Train to Nowhere: The Oversight of the Minneapolis Light Rail Legislation
The following essay by Lucy Buttram won third place in our Summer 2023 Essay Writing Contest for high school and college students.Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashDoes our city council see us? For eight years, my neighbors and I have asked this question—and worried. We watch helplessly as our bike paths are replaced by concrete and electric poles. We see the mess of construction as rails are built through our parks and into our neighborhoods. We dread the rumble of the light rail that will … [Read more...]
Green Energy Advancement Act’s Effects & Implications
The following essay by Diego Vargas-Godoy won an honorable mention in our Summer 2023 Essay Writing Contest for high school and college students. Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashIn the complex realm of governance, legislation stands as a pivotal force that guides the trajectory of societies. At this juncture where policy decisions bear far-reaching consequences, the essay competition hosted by the Cornwall Alliance offers an opportunity to delve into the intricate interplay between local … [Read more...]
Nothing Good Comes from Biden’s EV Ploy, Only Bad Karma
The biggest economic push for electric vehicles (EVs) appears to be to move them out of dealer inventory lots despite government subsidy perks.EVs are now some of the slowest sellers on dealership lots. In September, it took retailers over two months to sell a plug-in, compared with around a month for gas-powered vehicles and only three weeks for a gas-electric hybrid.The slowdown is also problematic for taxpayers and car companies that are plowing billions of dollars into new battery … [Read more...]
The AI Revolution Is Bad News For Net-Zero
Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashArtificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. New AI applications are announced daily. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and many companies tout plans for artificial intelligence capabilities. But the AI revolution is bad news for global efforts to achieve net-zero emissions.The AI revolution is based on high-performance AI chips, which are capable of revolutionary levels of computer processing power and can sort through vast amounts of … [Read more...]
Wind Unaffordable, Costs Common Sense
The Biden administration’s "Net Zero" carbon plan set for accomplishment by 2050 is predicated upon the assumption that America can transition away from hydrocarbons, which currently provide about 80% of our electricity, by increasing the 3% we get from wind and solar combined . . . with the vast majority of that from renewable friendly breezes.Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashFor starters, try to forget for a moment that wind and solar are unreliable, intermittent, weather-dependent … [Read more...]
Using the Cultural Mandate of Genesis 1:28 and the Ten Commandments as Basis for a Christian Ethic of Earth Stewardship
Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashIntroductionAs recently as the 2018 Gallup poll, climate change ranked near the bottom of Americans’ environmental concerns. But that has changed. A Google search on the question “What are the largest problems facing the 21st century?” on May 15, 2023, generated a substantial number of links, including to various lists, with environmental issues, including climate change, near the top. Climate change has become a hot-button issue. It moved out of the realm … [Read more...]
Regulating the Texas Dairy Industry
The following essay won first place in our Summer 2023 Essay Writing Contest for high school and college students. The author, Nora Koch, earned a $1,000 scholarship to fund her studies. Robust wildlife surrounds me as I make my way through the tropical rainforests of Maua, Kenya. The aroma of thriving plant life permeates the air. Soaring banana trees tower over isolated communities of dilapidated houses. A thick layer of dirt and grime coats everything. Despite the atrocious living conditions, … [Read more...]
The Entanglement of Truth and Science: A Nobel Laureate’s Advice to Students
The following is a guest article by Ron Barmby.Dr. John Clauser is an experimental physicist and of the highest order.His 2022 Nobel Prize in physics is enough to make him one of the preeminent scientists of our times. His work confirmed the existence of quantum entanglement—that two particles once linked remain linked no matter how far apart they are pulled. A change in one linked particle still affects the other linked particle.Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashA peer of Clauser’s said the … [Read more...]
The Climate War Is Over: China Won
Academia’s best-known hockey player, Michael Mann, in 2021 published a book entitled, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. His thesis was that climate-altering fossil fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petrostates are the enemies of humanity and (by omission) that nature has no significant role in climate change.Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashMann’s thesis seems to be that an army of activists who condemn the Industrial Revolution can defeat the … [Read more...]
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