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Valuing demand destruction … critical to understanding value of clean energy action
There are many things being lost in the discussion of the cost-benefit equation when it comes to mitigating global warming. When doing cost-benefit analyses, organizations like the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Environmental Protection...
Myth of Cooling Globe shattered by AP-sponsored ‘blind’ test
Just over the weekend, my inbox was filled with a discussion attacking climate science with assertions that “none of the models predicted the current cooling period” and, therefore, the entire concept of Global Warming rests on very shaky grounds....
EPA fails to think in four quadrants: Valuing Climate Legislation
Much noise is made over varying calculations associated with climate legislation. There is the disinformation fed from fossil foolish interests misrepresenting the situation. And, there are official studies from government institutions like the...
Calls on Toyota to leave the Chamber
Pressure is mounting, from many sides, on the US Chamber of Commerce, which has been actively fighting moving forward with sensible climate legislation. The Chamber’s position is so severe that, in fact, multiple businesses (such as PG&E) have...
Setting a leadership path: Obama Executive Order on Federal Energy
Somewhat hidden to most Americans (on purpose), the Bush Administration’s Executive Order 13423 was perhaps the best energy-related action taken by George W Bush. It set meaningful energy efficiency targets and created paths for more effective...
ACCCE Leader Pleas for Carbon Price
Yesterday, during a panel on Assuring Access to Clean and Competitive Energy in the Council on Competitiveness‘ National Energy Summit, Arch Coal President and ACCCE Vice President Steven Leer made a strong appeal for government policy to put a...
Subsidizing filth to employ foreigners rather than cleanliness to employ Americans
That title provides a reasonable summation of Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008, a report released today by the Environmental Law Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars looking at U.S....
Stop the Presses: Bipartisan sanity on Green Jobs and Helping American Homeowners
Last week, the New York Senate passed legislation to take revenues from New York’s ‘cap and tax’ on carbon emissions and leverage these funds into the private financing market to make energy efficiency improvements more affordable and more...
Heading for a crash
The world is at 390 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 and 430+ CO2 equivalent. The IPCC has concluded, in what might actually be an optimistic assessment, that we can...
France to impose a carbon tax … and a debate explodes
The news in France: a 14 Euro (about $19.90 at current exchange rates) tax per ton of carbon to go into effect in 2010. While discussion of a carbon tax has been an item of debate within French society, Prime Minister Fillon’s announcement of the...
Is it time to ask? 300+ Groups Make Boxer Appeal
Virtually with each passing day, the scientific understanding of the depths of our climate change challenge deepens. Just this week, the head of the IPCC, stated (in a private capacity) that the IPCC almost certainly understated the case and has...
Getting FIT
This is a guest post from the very thoughtful ApSmith who merits paying attention not just on this … but FIT is something that should be on the agenda to help move us forward toward more rapid deployment of clean energy options. The NY Times’ Green...
