Happy Earth Week!
What to know: The Manhattan Institute’s Jonathan Lesser says that “net zero” is not a rational energy policy.
The TPPF take: The developed world is what it is because of fossil fuels, and the rest of the world cannot develop without them.
“We cannot demonize what would heal developing countries of preventable and completely curable diseases,” says TPPF’s Jason Isaac. “Fighting for the climate cult’s agenda will bring nothing but poverty to the world; fighting for affordable, reliable energy will bring human flourishing to countries who have never had the luxury of air conditioning, clean water, and electricity.”
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Whales and Warfighters
What to know: The Defense Department is warning that the Biden administration’s ambitious plans for offshore wind could degrade our national security due to its interference with radar warning systems. That’s in addition to the endangered whales that projects threaten.
The TPPF take: In its haste to build offshore wind farms, the Biden administration has ignored the well-documented disadvantages of big wind turbines off our coasts.
“The project’s final environmental impact statement acknowledges that the turbines will increase danger to humans through collisions, but failed to address other dangers—such as interference with the instruments used in search-and-rescue missions,” says TPPF’s Ted Hadzi-Antich. “Nor did it address the vulnerability of the larger-than-planned Haliade-X turbines to hurricane-force winds—which occur regularly along the Atlantic seaboard.”
For more on offshore wind, click here.
Parent Empowerment
What to know: The New York Times is weighing in on the parent empowerment movement in Texas, noting that traditionally, rural Republicans have opposed school choice.
The TPPF take: Even rural students benefit from parent empowerment.
“In the past, opponents of parent empowerment in Texas have relied upon rural Republicans to help sink school choice—or anything they can misleadingly paint as ‘vouchers,’” says TPPF’s Mandy Drogin. “They portray it as all pain and no gain for districts that may lack the wider array of private, charter and magnet schools urban and suburban districts enjoy. But Texas voters are wising up to this slight-of-hand. Choice puts rural students on competitive ground with city kids because it results in more options.”
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