The Issues

Energy Freedom

Mason-Dixon Poll: Virginians Oppose New ‘Carbon Car Tax’

Polling data from a new poll conducted by the respect Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy shows that Virginians oppose the Transportation and Climate Initiative when they learn it will mean a...

Jefferson Forum
December 27, 2019

When is a Clean Water Act Permit Needed?

The issue of whether a Clean Water Act permit is needed when a pollutant originates from a point source and reaches a navigable water of the United States by virtue...

Jefferson Forum
December 21, 2019

New ‘Carbon Car Tax’ Bad for Virginia

The proposed Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) — a new “Carbon Car Tax” would be bad for Virginia, according to a new analysis by the Thomas Jefferson Institute. Starting at...

David Schnare
December 17, 2019

Agriculture, U.S. Constitution, lose in California court

A 72-year-old judge, Christina A. Snyder, appointed by President Clinton in 1997, handed the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) , U.S. agriculture,l and the Constitution of the United States a...

Jefferson Forum
December 4, 2019

China Steals Seed Technology

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated, “People in Washington and Silicon Valley are overlooking the threat of Chinese agricultural technology theft because they think that food grows in a grocery store.”...

Jefferson Forum
November 18, 2019

Will California Dictate to Virginia Farmers?

Early last month the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) filed a complaint against the Attorney General of California and the Secretary of California’s Department of Agriculture to stop the state’s...

Jefferson Forum
November 6, 2019

Carbon Taxes Move to the Gas Pump

Imagine this: A regime of rising carbon taxes and tightening emission allowances extending from Virginia’s Cumberland Gap to the Canadian maritime coastline. It covers coal, natural gas, gasoline, diesel fuel,...

Jefferson Forum
October 8, 2019

A New WOTUS Regulation Coming

Earlier this month, EPA’s Administrator and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works announced their agencies were repealing the Obama Administration’s 2015 promulgated rule – the one that...

Jefferson Forum
October 8, 2019

RGGI Questions and Answers

Virginia is poised to become the eleventh state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a regional compact created to limit CO2 emissions from large electricity plants. Although emissions are...

Stephen D. Haner
September 16, 2019

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Lower taxes and fewer regulations

Education Freedom

More choices for Virginia families

Energy Freedom

Reliable, affordable energy

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Protecting Virginia’s right-to-work tradition

These are the building blocks of a more competitive and prosperous Virginia.