This guest post comes from the eloquent and thoughtful Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse. After DC failed to enact comprehensive climate change legislation, it was good to see states take the lead on regional cap-and-trade programs. We now have 3 regional initiatives to address greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) involving more than 30 states. That so many […]
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Polluters War on Existing Effective Cap-and-Trade Programs
June 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Polluters War on Existing Effective Cap-and-Trade Programs
Tags: cap and trade · Energy · environmental · Global Warming
Delivering the post mortem on climate legislation’s failure …
July 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments
If the US Senate has, collectively, any substantive understanding of science, concern about American security, and desire for American prosperity into the future, there will be climate legislation. Sadly, with Anti-Science Syndrome suffering Haters Of a Livable Economic Society dominating one of America’s two major political parties and with Climate Peacocks mewing their way around […]
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Hey, Twit Claire, we do not have “50 years” …
July 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Senator Claire McCaskill, who has been anything but a shining star on thoughtful thinking for creating a prosperous and climate-friendly America, has let loose with another doozy. “I think it’s still a work in progress,” said Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who worries that a cap would be a loser for Democrats in November. “You know, […]
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“The most important number you’ve never heard of.”
April 16th, 2010 · 10 Comments
“The Social Cost of Carbon may be the most important number you’ve never heard of” according to Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth Stanton in a recent publication from the Economics for Equity and the Environment Network. The Social Cost of Carbon (pdf) analyzes the efforts within the U.S. government to develop a value of the economic […]
Tags: analysis · cap and trade · carbon dioxide · carbon tax · climate change · climate legislation · Energy · environmental · financial policy · Global Warming · government energy policy
RNC elements seek anti-business pledge
November 29th, 2009 · Comments Off on RNC elements seek anti-business pledge
When seeking paths for creating an environment for a prosperous America in the reality of a carbon-constrained future, many see the most business friendly general approach as “Cap & Trade”. Society (politicians) determine a “cap”, a top level, of total emissions and then people (businesses) can buy and trade emissions totaling to that cap. This […]
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Republican Hero votes for Health Care Reform: Will he get the climate catastrophe treatment?
November 8th, 2009 · Comments Off on Republican Hero votes for Health Care Reform: Will he get the climate catastrophe treatment?
Yesterday, a lone Republican, Representative Ahn Cao, voted for the (very weak) House health care reform bill. I read the versions of the House [health reform] bill. I listened to the countless stories of Orleans and Jefferson Parish citizens whose health care costs are exploding – if they are able to obtain health care at […]
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Valuing demand destruction … critical to understanding value of clean energy action
October 28th, 2009 · 8 Comments
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 Agency (EPA) are constrained to consider just one quadrant of what could be considered (in simplified form) the four-quadrant cost-benefit analysis […]
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Senator Alexander “believes an inconvenient reality …”
October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Senator Alexander “believes an inconvenient reality …”
Earlier this afternoon, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) held a press call to discuss climate legislation. There were those who were holding their breath, seeing Alexander as moving toward supporting the legislation if it met his desires when it came to nuclear power development. Based on this press event, it seems that they might be holding […]
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A FIT for the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act
October 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on A FIT for the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act
This is a guest post from NB41, who is top-notch in the wind energy world and on how to integrate renewable power into the energy system. Senator Kerry and Boxer introduced, yesterday, the Clean Energy, Jobs, and American Power Act. This bill is an alternative to/similar to the so-called ACES bill (Waxman-Markey Bill) which recently […]
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A cap with a collar …
September 29th, 2009 · Comments Off on A cap with a collar …
Well designed, a cap with a collar can be a truly gorgeous thing. To spark movement away from our carbon addiction, for business (financial) planning, and to gain enough support to pass climate legislation, any “Cap and Trade” structure almost certainly will have to have a “collar” to go with its “cap” on carbon emissions. […]
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