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Remember 2018, when every city council, major airline, and coffee giant suddenly decided that plastic sip-lids were the frontline of planetary salvation? It was the great Plastic Straw Panic. Celebrities made somber videos, corporate PR teams scrambled, and public policy shifted on a dime. The entire crusade was built on an eye-popping stat repe ...

Between our two families, we're raising four children in Cache County, next door to the proposed data center in Box Elder County. As researchers working in environmental and energy policy at the Pacific Legal Foundation, handling data centers has been top-of-mind. And as parents, we spend a lot of time thinking about what kind of state our kids wil ...