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Posts Tagged ‘Cap and Trade Global Warming Bill’

• Morning Bell: Snow Slows Obama’s Second Stimulus

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 9:52am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 11 comments

  The snowstorms that have already dumped over two feet of snow on the nation’s Capitol and that are threatening to dump another 12 to 16 inches, have grounded the legislative process to a halt. But that might not be such a bad thing. Senate Democrats had hoped they could pass President Barack Obama’s second stimulus today, [...] More

• Tax-Credit-for-Hire: Another Failed Stimulus Policy in the Pipeline

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 10:30am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 1 comments

  As President Obama continues campaigning for yet another round of stimulus it appears now that even democrats are beginning to question the soundness of this strategy.  This new focus includes a $5,000 tax credit—among other items— for any business that hires a new worker—effective the year the legislation is passed.  Of course, the intended effect [...] More

• Budget 2011: Obama’s Energy Budget: A Revenue Neutral Cap and Trade System?

  Posted February 1st, 2010 at 4:16pm in Energy and Environment with 3 comments

  President Obama released his fiscal year 2011 budget this morning; his budget provides $28.4 billion for the Department of Energy (DOE) and $10 billion for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Both sections in the budget reflect the president’s message in the State of the Union address delivered last week: a government attempt to facilitate America’s transition [...] More

• Rapidly Melting Credibility

  Posted February 1st, 2010 at 2:00pm in Energy and Environment with 5 comments

  The Washington Post asks: “Recently, a U.N. scientific report was found to have included a false conclusion about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. That followed the release of stolen e-mails last year, which showed climate scientists commiserating over problems with their data. Is there a broader meaning in these two incidents, and should they cause [...] More

• Government Gone Green: Obama Sets Federal GHG Emission Cuts

  Posted January 29th, 2010 at 4:27pm in Energy and Environment with 7 comments

  President Obama called on the federal government, the nation’s largest energy consumer, to its increase energy efficiency and to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2020. According to the White House if the targets are met they “would reduce federal energy consumption by the equivalent of 646 trillion BTUs, equal to 205 million [...] More

• Obama’s Attempt to Revive Cap and Trade

  Posted January 28th, 2010 at 5:33pm in Energy and Environment with 10 comments

  President Obama gave his first State of the Union speech last night and while his delivery reminded many Americans of the man they saw on the campaign trail, his rhetoric was much of the same. Although the president did call for offshore drilling and an expansion of nuclear, his focus was clean energy jobs. He [...] More

• Update: How Much Did Obama’s Copenhagen Failure Cost You?

  Posted January 26th, 2010 at 4:01pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 15 comments

  Two weeks ago, CBS News filed a story on the over 100 people (including Senators, Representatives, their spouses, and staff) that flew to the failed United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen on the taxpayers dime. At the time, Congress had not yet filed their expense report. CBS has now followed up on the story.Watch [...] More

• New Year, Same Story: Global Warming Dead Last on America’s Priority List

  Posted January 26th, 2010 at 11:55am in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  The wheels have been falling off the global warming bandwagon well before Climategate and the recent hole-poking of the much trumpeted Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report. In a national survey last January by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, global warming ranked 20th out of 20 as far as [...] More

• National Security and Global Warming: Never Mind

  Posted January 24th, 2010 at 4:20pm in Energy and Environment with 15 comments

  One of the loudest drumbeats in support of “Cap and Trade” legislation has been if the United States doesn’t tackle climate change with legislation we’ll face a national security catastrophe. Nations will collapse, waves of refugees will sweep the world, and states will war on other states over scarce resources. The poster child for the national [...] More

• 83 CEOs Make Case for Cap and Trade

  Posted January 21st, 2010 at 5:07pm in Energy and Environment with 14 comments

  Calling for a necessary transition to a low carbon energy economy, 83 CEOs sent a letter to President Obama demanding movement on cap and trade legislation to create green jobs. According to the press release, “the letter was signed by 83 CEOs from some of the nation’s largest electric power, manufacturing, clean tech, technology and [...] More