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• Obama’s Undemocratic Plan for Central Planning on Carbon

  Posted December 4th, 2008 at 11:49am in Energy and Environment with 11 comments

  It is looking more and more likely that President Obama will not try to pass any new cap and trade legislation through Congress. This is not the good news it appears to be. Instead, Obama will try and marshal legal authority from existing statutes, primarily the Clean Air Act, to force the reorganization of the [...] More

• Morning Bell: You, Too, Can Help ‘Save’ Millions of Jobs

  Posted November 24th, 2008 at 9:02am in Energy and Environment with 1 comments

  In his weekly radio address, President-elect Barack Obama promised a national “Economic Recovery Plan that will mean 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011.” One might think that would mean Obama had promised to create 2.5 million new jobs. But as the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and many other outlets noted, [...] More

• Morning Bell: An Offer We Can Refuse

  Posted October 20th, 2008 at 9:24am in Energy and Environment with 11 comments

  Barack Obama’s energy adviser Jason Grumet told Bloomberg last week that an Obama administration would not “insert political judgments to interrupt the recommendations of the scientific efforts.” His promise was made in reference to the Environmental Protection Agency’s impending decision on whether or not to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Later [...] More

• Regulations of Mass Job Destruction

  Posted October 16th, 2008 at 3:33pm in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  Bloomberg is reporting Barack Obama “will classify carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant that can be regulated.” As we have reported repeatedly in the past, such a decision would trigger numerous regulatory actions pursuant to the Clean Air Act and empower the Environmental Protection Agency to centrally plan the entire economy. Since the EPA published its [...] More

• A New Hope For Reining In EPA

  Posted July 14th, 2008 at 3:15pm in Energy and Environment with 0 comments

  This past Friday, on the same day the Environmental Protection Agency filed their blueprint for a massive reorganization of our entire economy, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion which seriously undercuts the legal basis for the EPA’s ambitious plans. Responding to lawsuits by liberal states who want [...] More

• More on That Leaked EPA Plan

  Posted July 9th, 2008 at 11:06am in Energy and Environment with 1 comments

  Liberals have been eerily silent about the EPA’s recently leaked plan to control America’s entire energy sector. But they did latch on to one sentence in the report. For example, Think Progress blares: Bush Hiding Truth: Global Warming Regulations Worth $2 Trillion Benefit. Jim Manzi exposes the EPA’s phony numbers at The Corner: If you click through [...] More

• Morning Bell: Central Planning Coming on Carbon

  Posted July 9th, 2008 at 9:10am in Energy and Environment with 8 comments

  Writing from the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Atlantic’s Megan McArdle recounts a Thomas Friedman presentation on global warming where Friedman mused “about how great it would be if we could be China for a day — have the government get in, totally reorganize the energy market, and then go forward from there.” Friedman is spending [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Left’s Undemocratic Blueprint for Carbon Capping

  Posted June 30th, 2008 at 9:17am in Energy and Environment with 6 comments

  The biggest reason liberals failed to get the Senate to pass the Lieberman-Warner mandatory carbon emission cap bill was because they failed to convince the American people that the economic harm carbon caps would cause were worth the meager and mostly symbolic benefits. Since very few analysts believe the price of energy will be any [...] More

• Global Warming: ‘It’s Good for the Lawyers’

  Posted April 14th, 2008 at 4:47pm in Energy and Environment with 0 comments

  According to the Los Angeles Times today: “Every time a new coal-fired power plant is proposed anywhere in the United States, a lawyer from the Sierra Club or an allied environmental group is assigned to stop it, by any bureaucratic or legal means necessary.” And apparently they are winning. The coalition claims to have stopped [...] More

• On Global Warming, Markets Succeed Where Government Fails

  Posted April 4th, 2008 at 1:33pm in Energy and Environment with 0 comments

  Environmentalists had a busy month trying to force federal government action on global warming. In the Senate, Environment and Public Works Committee chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) grilled the Interior Department over delays in deciding whether or not to list the polar bear as an endangered species. In the courts, some liberal state AGs and [...] More