Energy

Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Mandates in Pennsylvania

• Gordon Tomb
• August 24, 2023

Key Points Studies show adopting Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) criteria is not associated with better labor or environmental regulatory compliance. Emerging studies show ESG criteria are associated with lower…

Backgrounder

Commonwealth Foundation Executive VP Jennifer Stefano appears on Newsmax on May 10, 2022

• Jennifer Stefano
• May 10, 2022

Topics include the housing market, private businesses doing more for Ukraine than the U.N., and more!…

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Regulation

As the UN Falters, Can Capitalism Stop Russia?

• Jennifer Stefano
• May 2, 2022

Originally published in Newsweek Where is the United Nations? The international behemoth’s charter mandates that it “maintain international peace and security.” Despite sucking up billions of American taxpayer dollars…

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Education

Mann-Made Global Warming?

• Matthew Brouillette
• January 19, 2010

Climategate was born in late November 2009 with the release of more than a thousand emails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

Climate Change in Pennsylvania

• November 17, 2009

A new report from the Science & Public Policy Institute (SPPI) focuses solely on climate trends in the Pennsylvania. The report highlights climate trends unique to the state…

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Health Care

Notes on Health Care Reform

• November 12, 2009

Two slightly important questions are being neglected regarding the Health Care Reform bills in Congress: their constitutionality and their morality. Are the bill just passed in the House and that…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

How Scary is Global Warming?

• October 28, 2009

Recent empirical data indicates global warming is not the imminent crisis some make it out to be. Christopher Monckton highlights recent trends which buck the U.N. projections.  Of particular…

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Taxes & Economy

The Clean Energy Scam

• Nathan Benefield
• April 2, 2008

Time Magazine blasts the ethanol craze that has politicians (including Governor Rendell) demanding more subsidies and mandates for biofuels than they already get (HT: Carpe Diem):…

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Ethanol Gold Rush Carries Costs

• Nathan Benefield
• May 10, 2007

The rush to mandate and subsidize ethanol may turn out to be fools gold, from NCPA: Last year, about 4.9 billion gallons of ethanol were produced. Within…

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