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February 8, 2021

New Bills in North and South Dakota Would Allow the State to Ignore Executive Orders From Biden

if Biden issues an executive order, the state’s attorney general may review the order to determine if it complies with the Constitution. From there, the state will determine if they should seek exemption from the order or challenge the order on constitutional grounds.

The bill goes on to state specifics when it comes to the orders it will “nullify” in the event of constitutional breaches, such as “pandemics or other health emergencies,” regulation of North Dakota’s agriculture industry, any financial orders that relate to environmental or social standards, and “the regulation of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.” //

These bills will likely be challenged on constitutional grounds themselves, with critics citing the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause which states that federal law will be the supreme law of the land. RedState will follow the life of these bills.

Here’s how Elon Musk’s $100 million Xprize competition for carbon removal will work – TechCrunch

To qualify for victory, solutions must be able to extract one ton of CO2 per day, and be viable in a scaled, validated model at time of presentation, with the ability to scale it to “gigaton levels” in commercially viable ways in the future

Climate change: global warming may have started before industrial revolution, Chinese study says | South China Morning Post

Investigation of coral reefs in the Paracel Islands suggest the South China Sea began warming up in 1825, researchers say
Uranium dating shows samples have a continuous climate record going back to 1520

New Robinhood regulations would stiff ‘little guy’

The GameStop-Robinhood stock-trading frenzy could take another bizarre turn thanks largely to some legislative “solutions” being weighed, allegedly to protect small investors.

But if any of this stuff makes it into law, it will be the “little guy” who gets screwed, and this time for real. The end of low-commission and free trading could be in the cards, and that will make stock investing less equitable for everyone.