New Study Shows California/New York Approach to Fighting Global Warming Hurts Working Class and Minority Communities
Legislating Energy Poverty Shows Market-Based Policies More Effective in Cutting Emissions...
05 December, 2018
Environment
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Banning Polystyrene Won’t Help California’s Environment — But It Will Hurt Jobs, Economy
Having successfully outlawed plastic bags and straws, the next target of California lawmakers, who seem intent on criminalizing as many consumer conveniences as possible, just might be those foam containers used to hold take-out f...
24 October, 2018 -
Watch PRI’s Tim Anaya Respond to California 100 Percent Renewable Energy Mandate
Watch PRI Communications Director Tim Anaya discuss the Legislature’s passage of SB 100, which would impose a 100 percent renewable energy mandate in California by 2045, on the KCRA 3 News in Sacramento. Click here to watch ...
30 August, 2018
Studies
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New Study Shows California/New York Approach to Fighting Global Warming Hurts Working Class and Minority Communities
Legislating Energy Poverty Shows Market-Based Policies More Effective in Cutting Emissions...
05 December, 2018 -
CAPITAL IDEAS – Choice Robbers: California Nannies Won’t Give Up
Download the PDF When the Legislature declared a moratorium on cities enacting soda taxes, it felt like a win for freedom and a pushback of interventionism. But the busybodies never give up and they plow a fertile field in Califor...
26 July, 2018 -
CAPITAL IDEAS: A Futuristic and Cheaper Alternative to High-Speed Rail
Download the PDF California’s “bullet” train to nowhere keeps going — nowhere. Unless tearing down a bridge just to rebuild it is somewhere. Construction of an overpass near Fresno was scrapped late last year—yes, we’re lear...
27 June, 2018
Podcast
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Dr. Henry Miller – Just How “Authentic” Are the “Natural” Products You’re Buying?
Dr. Henry Miller, PRI’s new fellow in health care studies, joins us to discuss his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed challenging the “authentic” industry, which made waves nationally. We also discuss how over-regulation prevents b...
24 September, 2018 -
Giving Rural California A Bigger Voice
Republican Assemblyman James Gallagher of Yuba City joins us at his Sacramento office to talk about the Oroville Dam emergency, building California water storage, and his proposal to give the North State a bigger voice in Californ...
25 July, 2017
Commentary
California’s energy mandates amount to state-legislated energy poverty
Every Californian wants to conserve energy and see cleaner air and water in the Golden State. But in their quest to safeguard the state’s environment for future generations, Sacramento policymakers have put in place an overzealous...
21 December, 2018New York mandates create ‘energy poverty’ for citizens
New York has a proud tradition of environmental conservation. From Frederick Law Olmsted creating Central Park in the 1870s to the national environmental movement inspired by trailblazing President Theodore Roosevelt to the lush n...
15 December, 2018Do polystyrene bans actually accomplish anything?
The California rush to ban foam takeout food containers is starting to look like a frenetic race that would embarrass even the most aggressive Black Friday shoppers. Currently, 119 cities and counties in California prohibit busine...
03 December, 2018