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The Environmental Law That Is Strangling California
Wall Street Journal | March 9, 2022
Chris Carr
Pat Brown, California’s governor from 1959 to 1967, helped make the University of California the world’s pre-eminent public university system. In 1970 he said that he had given “the highest priority to education, because I felt the greatness of California would depend upon an educated people.” That same year, Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the first holistic environmental-review statute enacted by a state—the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.
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AB 5 is Taking Away Opportunities for Communities of Color & Low-Income Communities
Right by the Bay | Wayne Winegarden
March 9, 2022
On Monday, Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in Business and Economics, was invited to testify before the California advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the civil rights implications of California’s controversial AB 5. Click below to read Winegarden’s comments as written:
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Europe's Alternative Reality for Reducing Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
European Scientist | Henry Miller
March 8, 2022
Popular wisdom is often wrong. Consider, for example, how it views organic agriculture, which has grown to a $48 billion ([link removed].) a year industry in the U.S. Organic products are sold at outlets ranging from local farmers’ markets to large supermarket chains, and many people assume that there is something more natural, wholesome, or environmentally sustainable about them. None of that is true.
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Mark Cuban shows how the free market helps patients
Buffalo News | Sally Pipes
March 7, 2022
Cuban deserves credit for creating a business model that not only saves consumers money on their medicine but shows the extent to which middlemen have been ripping off patients.
For years now, Congress has debated how to rein in the predatory practices of pharmacy benefit managers, with proposed bills that would require greater transparency. But the private sector is now leading the way. Cuban’s company could serve as a model and first step for fixing the price-inflated status quo.
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