Heartland Institute's September Environment & Climate News

Kansas Scraps Renewable Energy Mandates

The September issue of Environment & Climate News reports Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a law rescinding the state’s renewable energy mandates, replacing them with voluntary goals. The law represents a significant setback for global warming activists and the wind and solar energy industries.

Also in this issue:

• Several states are planning to defy the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which limits carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. 
• More than 500 scientists and colleagues of embattled climatologist Dr. Willie Soon signed a letter requesting an investigation into his treatment by his employer, the Smithsonian Institution. 
• Over Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R) objections, the Democrat-controlled Maryland legislature passed a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing.  T
• wenty-nine states are suing EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the White House’s Waters of the United States rule. 
• A new report offers an alternative approach to national forest management: charter forests. 
• The Arizona Supreme Court ruled the Center for Biological Diversity libeled Arizona rancher Jim Chilton, awarding Chilton $600,000 in actual and punitive damages.

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