Monday, October 28, 2024

Feel-good environmental rules won't save the planet, but they do hurt consumers * WorldNetDaily * by Nate Scherer, Real Clear Wire

Feel-good environmental rules won't save the planet, but they do hurt consumers * WorldNetDaily * by Nate Scherer, Real Clear Wire

The fight against climate change is increasingly riddled with lawmakers' feel-good attempts to save the planet by imposing top-down regulations that do nothing in the way of meaningfully reducing global temperatures or cutting pollution. However, these "feel-good" regulations have a familiar habit of harming consumers by eliminating popular goods and services or making them more expensive. The latest example of such a regulation comes courtesy of California, where lawmakers recently passed a second ban on plastic grocery bags after the first attempt ended in failure.

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