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Kemal Yildirim/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Wednesday, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) published a long-delayed report establishing a connection between elevated fluoride levels in drinking water and reduced IQ scores in children. This report marks the first time the government has acknowledged this risk, reigniting discussions about the safety of fluoride, a substance widely used in public health for decades. Key...

Selwyn Duke Would you want to be ruled by a government of unelected Anthony Faucis? It’s a relevant question because, although it’s seldom framed this way, that’s precisely what the “Chevron doctrine” gave us for 40 years. Overturning almost 200 years of precedent — the precedent whereby our elected representatives made law and, if it was ambiguous, people could at...

Bill Hahn The U.S. Supreme Court certainly has given us a mixed bag of rulings since the overturning of Roe versus Wade. Some are winners and track according to the federal Constitution, while others seem to make little sense, especially in the tradition of limited government the Founding Fathers prescribed. Last week’s overturning of the Chevron case has the potential...

mkmetsker/iStock/Getty Images Plus Earlier this month, Idaho’s government announced water-rights restrictions that are impacting farmers during the critical growing season.According to the Idaho Capital Sun on June 4, “Idaho Department of Water Resources Director Mathew Weaver issued a curtailment order that requires 6,400 junior groundwater rights holders who pump off the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to shut off their water”...

Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Friday, the United States Supreme Court greatly limited the ability of regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to essentially fill in the details when laws are unclear. The 40-year-old Chevron decision effectively granted the regulatory state — which consists of unelected bureaucrats — power to broadly interpret laws and, in effect, create...

AP Images Train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 3, 2023 Toxic chemicals released during the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last year spread to 16 states and likely Canada, according to a study published on June 16. The pollution, some of which came from the burning of vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen, spread over 540,000 square...

imaginima/iStock/Getty Images Plus Vermont has become the first state to attempt to hold big oil companies responsible for the effects of climate change. Governor Phil Scott chose not to veto bill S.259, dubbed the Climate Superfund Act, which seeks to hold fossil fuel interests accountable for damage done to the state by weather events, which climate alarmists claim are exacerbated...

Veronique de Rugy American federalism is struggling. Federal rules are an overwhelming presence in every state government, and some states, due to their size or other leverage, can impose their own policies on much or all of the country. The problem has been made clearer by an under-the-radar plan to phase out diesel locomotives in California. If the federal government...

nojustice/iStock/Getty Images Plus Three organizations closely associated with the Biden administration and the Democratic Party were awarded $14 billion by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday.The EPA announced the first recipients of grants from the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), a creation of the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Of the $20 billion doled out Thursday, Climate United...

horkins/iStock/Getty Images Plus Politicians in Vermont are in the process of creating the state’s own climate superfund, which would have fossil-fuel companies pay for cleaning up floods and other natural disasters allegedly brought on by climate change.Vermont’s “Climate Superfund Act” (S.259) is loosely modeled on the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA),...

Martin Jambon/flickr The Golden State is already bracing itself in anticipation of a second Trump presidency.California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking measures to Trump-proof the state’s climate policies in case Biden fails in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. As Politico reports, the governor has a legion of bureaucrats at his command set to help him ensure the green policies continue...

The stunning landslide by underdog U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in the Ohio GOP primary shows the way for Republican victory throughout the all-important Rust Belt this fall. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and nearby Wisconsin can all be won with Moreno’s campaign theme: creating jobs for Americans. Polling showed a too-close-to-call race between Moreno and the establishment-favored candidate, state senator Matt Dolan. Ohio Gov....

piola666/iStock/Getty Images Plus Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts are planning an experiment in which they will dump approximately 6,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide — a common ingredient in soaps, cleansers, and chemical pipe cleaners — into the waters off of Martha’s Vineyard. The experiment is a part of WHOI’s LOC-NESS project, which seeks to ascertain...