May 3, 2023

Green New Deal Appeasement Leads Nowhere

It is frustrating to watch people who should know better, including politicians, state regulators, and even leaders of traditional energy companies, play along with the green energy transition. Any day now, I expect a modern-day Neville Chamberlain t...

May 12, 2022

How the ESG Movement is Shooting Itself in the Foot

Reputational risk is the wonderfully vague term that is being used more and more to justify decisions to terminate a business relationship when an objective reason is unavailable. According to an excellent article in the Georgia Law Review, ...

February 23, 2022

Why banks are fighting ESG legislation

In state legislatures throughout the country, lawmakers are introducing bills to protect the rights of their constituents concerning freedom of speech and freedom of association.  Bank lobbyists are aggressively opposing these consumer prot...

November 16, 2021

Defund the COPs

I've finally found an issue I can get behind!  No, I am not talking about defunding the police.  I thank them all for their service.  I am talking about defunding the spectacle that is Conference of the Parties 26 (C...

June 16, 2021

The Lesser Prairie Chicken Is the New Canary in the Coal Mine

Environmental activists in the federal government are wasting no time recovering their Obama-era swagger and aggressively taking ground. On February 1, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008, which promotes a “whole of government...

January 28, 2021

First, they came for Alaska

The future of domestic energy production and resource development is happening now in Alaska.  Two recent stories out of Alaska sound a warning to energy and mining states: you are next.  Last August, the U.S. Interior Department fi...