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The Daily Signal

A Sneaky Effort to Undermine the Fight Against Carbon Taxes

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 03/16/2026

President Donald Trump has shown bold leadership by rejecting the radical global climate agenda. But now some lawmakers, including a handful of Republicans, have set…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Electricity grid reliability diminished by bad government policies

  • By: Daren Bakst, Paige Lambermont
  • 01/02/2026

The purpose of the nation’s electricity grid that powers our homes and businesses is to provide reliable electricity. That’s hardly a radical concept. But tell…

Energy and Environment

National Review

U.N.’s Global Carbon Tax Should Be a Wake-Up Call to Fight International Climate Extremism

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 10/27/2025

The United States should be an international leader in the fight against energy poverty and for energy freedom. Because, as of now, many countries are using…

Energy and Environment

DC Journal

Counterpoint: Single-Use Plastic Bans Make No Sense

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 10/09/2025

Nobody wants plastic pollution. That doesn’t mean poorly considered and heavy-handed governmental actions are the solution. This includes misguided single-use plastic bans (e.g., bans on…

Business and Government

Center Square Opinion

Op-Ed: Lawmakers deserve credit for recent success against the Green New Deal

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 09/02/2025

Lawmakers took a significant step toward ending the Green New Deal. In the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), they started to dismantle the radical…

Energy and Environment

DC Journal

EPA Should Consider the Harm of Regulating Greenhouse Gases

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 05/16/2025

Even for the least essential choices we make in our daily lives, such as what we should have for dinner, we consider the pros and…

Energy and Environment

New York Post

As EPA czar, Lee Zeldin should scrap these three awful Biden rules FAST

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 11/15/2024

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) to serve as the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator.  Once confirmed, he’ll have a big…

Energy and Environment

Washington Examiner

Congress needs to end regulation without representation

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 09/04/2024

Taxation without representation is the antithesis of freedom and runs counter to the basic principles guiding our nation. So why is regulation without representation not…

Deregulation

The Daily Signal

The Overreaching Power of the Bureaucracy Is Destroying Our Representative Government

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 07/23/2024

The United States is a republic with decision-making power held by elected legislators representing the people. Yet many of the biggest decisions affecting the lives…

Law and Litigation

Washington Examiner

Conservatives must remain committed to dismantling the IRA’s “green” subsidies

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 07/10/2024

The Inflation Reduction Act is partisan legislation packed with what could amount to more than one trillion dollars in “green” …

Energy

The Center Square

A big win for representative government

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 07/01/2024

Federal courts will no longer favor bureaucrats over the public, thanks to a June 28 U.S. Supreme Court decision. In a 6-3 opinion in Loper…

Energy and Environment

The Hill

Why are some Republicans pushing new taxes and higher prices?

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 12/05/2023

Here’s a concoction whose toxicity conservatives instinctively recognize: new taxes, higher prices, punishing energy use, and giving foreign countries leverage over how the U.S. regulates.

Energy and Environment

The Washington Examiner

Carbon tariffs will hurt trade, national interests, and consumers

  • By: Daren Bakst, Ryan Young
  • 07/25/2023

Carbon tariffs are a bad idea that won’t go away, and now the European Union has launched the first one, the …

Energy

Washington Examiner

Low-income communities need affordable energy, not Biden’s ‘environmental justice’

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 06/03/2023

Union jobs, sports fields, and tree cover. What do they have in common? President Joe Biden wants to promote them through his new …

Energy and Environment

National Review

Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on Clean Water Act Case Will Aid Property Rights

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 06/02/2023

On May 25, the U.S. Supreme Court in Sackett v. EPA unanimously held that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can’t regulate wetlands on the…

Energy and Environment

National Review

Stop Empowering OPEC+ by Restricting the Domestic Oil Supply

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 05/05/2023

When, at the beginning of April, the 23 oil-exporting countries of OPEC+, including Russia and Saudi Arabia, announced cuts in oil…

Energy and Environment

The Boston Herald

Bakst: EPA Targets Americans’ Ability to Choose their Cars

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 05/04/2023

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tailpipe emission regulations for new cars, making it more difficult for Americans to buy gas-powered vehicles. The rule is part of…

Energy and Environment

The Daily Signal

Congress Must End This Multibillion-dollar Government Slush Fund

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 05/03/2023

A little-known slush fund at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has become a go-to funding source for billions of dollars of abusive spending…

Government Transparency

Inside Sources

EPA Is Attacking Americans’ Ability to Choose Which Cars to Drive

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 05/02/2023

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tailpipe emission regulations for new cars, making it more difficult for Americans to buy gas-powered vehicles. The rule is part…

Energy and Environment

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