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Over 50% of Conservative MPs don’t agree with Renewable Energy Targets

April 21, 2010 by Vicky Portwain
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Despite their campaigning as the ‘new green’ party at the beginnning of the year, the Conservatives have come out the least green in a new survey released this week. The RenewableUK survey carried out by ComRes shows that over half this year’s prospective Conservative MPs disagree with current renewable energy targets. With election... [read more]

Followup Nuclear Energy – Green Power

March 9, 2010 by Rich Maltzman
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This is a followup to my post about whether or not nuclear power is considered green power and Vermont, the Green Mountain State’s issue with the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant license renewal.  I was channel surfing today and because of my “connection” with Vermont, the power plant in Vernon, and the refusal of by Vermont’s... [read more]

The best possible outcome in Copenhagen?

March 4, 2010 by Richard Graves
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I know this might sound strange after so many people have expressed so much anger and disappointment at the failure of our political leaders to make the necessary decisions – and that is how I felt immediately after the conference - but this might be how the history books record it. There is no doubt that the result of Copenhagen... [read more]

Whitman and Worstall: apply “new paternalism” logic to policymakers too

January 18, 2010 by Lynne Kiesling
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Glen Whitman has been posting excerpts from his Arizona Law Review paper with Mario Rizzo on the “new paternalism” for a while, and his most recent discussion has to do with the paternalist policy recommendations around the human tendency toward hyperbolic discounting. Hyperbolic discounting means that individuals tend to place more... [read more]

Democracy or Demagogy?

July 29, 2008 by Eddy De Clercq
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I’ve already mentioned that the strange ideas politicians have when they make decisions when it comes to environmental issues doesn’t show any outstanding ability in this field, but more bent on self-preservation or some hazy interest instead of the people who elected them to represent. I’ve given examples of this on town level and a... [read more]