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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

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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…

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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

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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

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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…

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