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More rational policies in our future?

Trump’s Paris decision challenges bad science, economics and energy politics behind treatyIn the wake of President Trump’s exit from the Paris climate treaty, reactions from other quarters were predictably swift, nasty, sanctimonious and hypocritical.   Al Gore paused near one of the private jets he takes to hector lesser mortals to say the action will…

Land, energy and mineral lockdowns

Too many oil, gas, coal, rare earth and other vital resources are still off limits President Trump has directed Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to review recent land withdrawals under the 1906 Antiquities Act, to determine whether some should be reversed or reduced in size.   The review is long overdue. The act was…