Author: Bonner Cohen

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Bonner Cohen: New York’s Anti-Fossil Fuel Shakedown Could Spread To Other States

Commentary, Environment /
Last week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill allowing the state to fine oil and gas companies up to $75 billion over 25 years, blaming them for climate-related damage to state infrastructure. "Their agenda is extortion," ...
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Bonner Cohen: The Senate Should Free The U.S. From The Paris Climate Agreement

Commentary, Environment /
The incoming Trump administration needs to get "the United States – once and for all – out of the December 2015 Paris Climate Agreement," writes the National Center's Bonner Cohen, Ph.D., in a commentary published at Human Events. To these ends, ...
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Bonner Cohen: Trump Needs to Get the U.S. Out of the Paris Climate Agreement

Media Mention /
At Restoration News, Kevin Mooney quotes National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen in an article outlining why and how incoming President Trump should get the U.S out of the Paris Climate Agreement once and for all. Bonner told Kevin: Getting ...
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Bonner Cohen: Chris Wright, Trump’s Energy Secretary Nominee, Promises To Be Climate Cartel’s Nightmare

Commentary /
President-elect Trump's "naming of fracking magnate Chris Wright to head the Department of Energy underscores the radical change in direction coming to Washington in January," writes National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen in a commentary published at The Washington Times ...
Bonner Cohen: America is "Woefully Unprepared" for Electric Vehicle Mandates

Bonner Cohen: America is “Woefully Unprepared” for Electric Vehicle Mandates

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Is America ready for nationwide electric vehicle mandates? In a piece by Kevin Mooney at The American Spectator, National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, Ph.D., argues that the Biden administration's "de facto EV mandates" are out of touch with both ...
Bonner Cohen: Biden White House Starts End Run Around Supreme Court WOTUS Ruling

Bonner Cohen: Biden White House Starts End Run Around Supreme Court WOTUS Ruling

Commentary /
National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, Ph.D., says the Biden administration has again set its sights on controlling American wetlands, despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Sackett v. EPA, “which dramatically reduced federal protections for wetlands in one of ...
Bonner Cohen: Most ‘Green’ States Are Laggards in Economic Growth

Bonner Cohen: Most ‘Green’ States Are Laggards in Economic Growth

Commentary /
Is the grass greener economically in states where policies are greener? In a commentary published at The Orange County Register, National Center Senior Fellow Dr. Bonner Cohen lined up two recent state rankings -- one examining environmental policies and one ...
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Bonner Cohen: Sackett v. EPA Is a Victory for Property Rights

Commentary /
Farmers, ranchers and other landowners throughout the country can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has delivered long-overdue clarity in Sackett v. EPA over which bodies of water the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can regulate under the Clean ...
Bonner Cohen: Elites Have Come Up With Their Greatest Excuse Yet To Suppress The Rest Of Us

Bonner Cohen: Elites Have Come Up With Their Greatest Excuse Yet To Suppress The Rest Of Us

Commentary /
The recent torrent of regulations unleashed by the Biden administration — targeting everything from power plant and automobile tailpipe emissions to gas stoves and other household appliances — confirms that the White House was deadly serious when — in office ...
Bonner Cohen: Schemes to Suck CO2 From the Air Will Reduce Global Food Supply

Bonner Cohen: Schemes to Suck CO2 From the Air Will Reduce Global Food Supply

Commentary /
The obsession of global elites – in and out of government – with saving the planet from what they insist is a “climate crisis” includes a slew of policies that enrich politically favored purveyors of green energy while disregarding the ...

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