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Posts Tagged ‘cap and trade’

  • Watch Out for the “Green Police”

    Posted February 8th, 2010 at 4:07pm in Energy and Environment 13

    In what was seemingly an outlandish Super Bowl commercial, the “Green Police” could become all too real.  Though the cap-and-trade legislation appeared to die in the Senate after the passing the House, that doesn’t mean the war of environmental regulations is over. Liberals could still force draconian environmental restrictions on us anyway. Tucked into the [...] More

  • Climate Change Scientific Consensus Cloudy as Ever

    Posted February 4th, 2010 at 12:55pm in Energy and Environment 8

    We’re a few days before a massive snowstorm whitewashes the District of Columbia, but the Climategate and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change storms are already here and as fierce as ever. Earlier this week, The Guardian shed a little more light on the flawed and hidden data from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit: The [...] 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 3

    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

  • Obama’s Attempt to Revive Cap and Trade

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

    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

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

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

    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 15

    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 14

    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

  • Cold Feet on Climate … and the EPA

    Posted January 20th, 2010 at 5:03pm in Energy and Environment 0

    Yesterday, as if he knew the results of the Massachusetts Senate race, retiring Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) ruled out the possibility of the Senate considering a cap-and-trade bill. The reluctance of the Senate to take up a comprehensive global warming bill coincides with increasing public skepticism. Despite these obvious warning signs that global [...] More

  • Outside the Beltway: California Dreamin’ Up Ways to Avoid Economic Disaster

    Posted January 11th, 2010 at 4:25pm in Energy and Environment, Enterprise and Free Markets, Ongoing Priorities 4

    California, the land of sunshine, surfing, soaring unemployment and ballooning deficits, may be making moves to strip itself of one of its most costly and draconian environmental regulations: the cap-and-trade carbon tax. Meanwhile, the City of Los Angeles is turning to private industry for help in digging out of a financial hole. As reported in The [...] More

  • Whole Foods CEO: From Health Care to Climate Change

    Posted January 4th, 2010 at 4:22pm in Energy and Environment 8

    John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, really made a name for himself when his op-ed, “The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare“, ran in the Wall Street Journal last summer. In the latest issue of the New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten profiles Mackey and his ideas of “conscious capitalism.” When asked what Mackey was [...] More