Category Archives: Climate Policy
Lomberg on Sustainability
Bjorn Lomborg is often disparaged by environmentalists for questioning what in my view have generally been very questionable public policy prescriptions that environmental advocacy groups have promoted around the issue of climate change. In a recent Newsweek article, Lomberg takes a … Continue reading
Get The Energy Sector Off The Dole
In “Get The Energy Sector Off The Dole“, clean energy investor Jeffrey Leonard offers a great way to make renewable energy more competitive, reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and help restore our economy to some rationality and health with … Continue reading
Lovins On The Financial Folly Of Nuclear Power
In “Nuclear Socialism”, once again Rocky Mountain Institute founder Amory Lovins outlines the continuing and increasing financial folly of the nuclear power industry. This prolific clean energy pioneer, whose realm of work is generally considered the favored domain of the … Continue reading
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Perspective On Climate Change
Many intelligent people view political and public public policy questions largely through the prism of climate change. They view climate change as the most serious challenge of our times, the science of climate change as a settled matter and the … Continue reading
Replace ALL Federal Government Revenue With A Simple Energy Tax
America needs a new answer regarding energy, economics and the environment. Our current systems are failing and the solutions currently on the table won’t work. And everybody knows it. We also need to rethink how we fund our government. The … Continue reading
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Rogoff Calls For A Carbon Tax
Harvard economist Ken Rogoff asks Can Good Emerge From The Gulf Oil Spill? Rogoff, the author of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, calls for a large and direct carbon tax suggesting that: “a carbon tax is … Continue reading
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Carbon Trading Fraud
EUobserver.com reports: “Europol, the European criminal intelligence agency, last December issued a warning that ETS fraud had resulted in around €5 billion in lost revenues. In announcing its investigations into the pan-European racket, the agency said that as much as … Continue reading
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Videos On Sensible Climate and Energy Policy
The media page for the Price Carbon Campaign has several great videos available that explain from a wide variety of perspectives why a simple clear revenue neutral carbon tax is the best solution to climate, economic, environmental, employment and national … Continue reading
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Climate Politics
To assure sustainable prosperity, we need the market place to account fairly for the long legacy of subsidy and economic externalities that distort energy markets in favor of incumbent polluting industries. We need to establish public policies that enable such … Continue reading
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Cape Wind, The Rule of Law And The Choices We Make
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced that he will make a permitting decision regarding Cape Wind by April. He has requested public comment on the project before February 12. Comments can be sent here and here. The long … Continue reading
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