Category: environmental regulation

Environment Minister Pledges ‘Zero Extinctions’ in Australia Within 10 Years

October 4, 2022
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Australia’s Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has unveiled a ten-year conservation plan to ensure there are no “new extinctions of plants and animals.” On Oct. 4, the Labor minister released “The Threatened Species Action Plan 2022-2032” which outlines a series of ambitious targets, including preventing new extinctions, conserving 30 percent of Australia’s land mass, adding 10…

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Joe Oliver: The Liberal Cabinet Needs an Intervention

July 27, 2022
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Commentary Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet would benefit from an intervention since it appears they need professional help with their obsessional behaviour. I offer this suggestion more in alarm than astonishment, because they are poised to do to the agricultural industry what they have been doing to the oil and gas sector—which will…

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New ‘Climate Risk’ Rule Will Burden Businesses to Promote Unscientific Alarmism

April 1, 2022
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Commentary It’s no surprise the Biden administration favors big government. But a new climate rule proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) takes Biden’s “whole of government” assault on our energy resources to a whole new level. Under a new SEC rule proposed last month (pdf), all public companies would be required to…

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Fettering Biden’s Administrative State

January 28, 2021
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Commentary The administrative state will get a new lease on life under President Joe Biden, but America’s administrative state is far more constrained than that of many other countries. Britain, for example, wrote its net-zero climate target into law after only a 90-minute debate in the House of Commons, without any examination of what the…

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