Tag: Commentary

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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: Chris Wright, Trump’s Energy Secretary Nominee, Promises To Be Climate Cartel’s Nightmare

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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 ...
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Elinore McCance-Katz: Implement Certified Clinic Program To Help Homeless Veterans, Improve National Mental Health

Able Americans, Commentary /
"The reach of the Veterans Administration Health System is limited and often veterans in need cannot get to a VA health facility," notes Able Americans Senior Fellow Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz in a commentary published at Stars and Stripes. But Dr ...
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Mark Mostert: The Social Security Disability Nightmare

Able Americans, Commentary /
In a commentary published at The American Thinker, Able Americans Senior Researcher Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D., examines the multitude of problems facing people with disabilities when they try to access their Social Security Insurance (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance ...
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Remembering R.J. Smith

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The National Center recently lost a dear friend and colleague, Robert J. ("R.J.") Smith. For nearly 20 years -- from 2005 until his passing in April -- R.J. was a senior fellow in environmental policy at the National Center.  He ...
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Rachel Barkley and Megan Burke: Americans With Disabilities Are at a Breaking Point. Are Politicians Listening?

Able Americans, Commentary /
"Individuals with disabilities are at higher risk of financial distress, homelessness, food insecurity, unsustainable medical debt, having their children taken away from them and more," write Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley and Petrizzo Group Principal Megan Burke in a commentary published by The Hill. And ...
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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

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

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

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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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Rachel Barkley: Assisted Suicide Degrades the Value of Disabled Lives

Rachel Barkley: Assisted Suicide Degrades the Value of Disabled Lives

Able Americans, Commentary /
"Laws that enable physician-assisted suicide inculcate a harmful culture for people of all types of disabilities, and they are unfortunately spreading beyond Europe and Canada to the United States," writes Able Americans Director Rachel K. Barkley in a commentary syndicated ...
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