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Could a little freeze action help cool our planetary warming?

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The Congressional Budget Office has come out with an evaluation that, as the Washington Post reported, Climate-change legislation would cost the average household $175 a year by 2020, according to the Congressional Budget Office, far below the figure commonly used by GOP critics of the House bill. The CBO said yesterday that the poorest 20 […]

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When contemplating the path of climate legislation over the past several years, we must address a continual question and challenge for those (which should be all of us) concerned that our political system is proving unable to come up with a policy and regulatory framework that provides any real hope for putting us (the United […]

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Truly, this is one of the questions that should be on the table when considering Congressional (in)action re climate change and clean energy options.  Over the past decade, as US jobs flew out to other countries, with workers all too often spending their last months/weeks/days on the job training foreigners how to use equipment and […]

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The National Multi Housing Council and National Apartment Association have put out an “appeal” calling for letters to Congress against instituting national building standards for energy efficiency that would move the nation on a path toward sensible building infrastructure.  This misleading, deceptive, and wrong-headed appeal seeks to add more voices toward those seeking to sabotage […]

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The energy efficiency sections of HR 2454, the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, are, almost certainly, its strongest elements. The United States, for a wide-ranging set of reasons, has evolved into a far more energy inefficient society than sensible (rather than stove-piped and distorted) economics would suggest should be the case. The […]

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Last Friday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) release their financial “scoring” of the draft Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act (note: pdf). CBO’s analysis projects, through its first decade, that the Federal Government will bring in $845.6 billion in revenue with $821.2 billion in additional expenditures, meaning that the US Treasury would see […]

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Chairman Ed Markey’s OPED, The race for clean-energy innovation, earns both cheers of agreement and moans of discord. Absolutely spot on is the beginning, highlighting the truth that we are facing a race for trillions of dollars in clean-energy investments. As President Obama says, “the nation that leads in 21st-century clean energy is the nation […]

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Steven Mufson had a must-read piece re influencing in today’s Washington Post, High-Stakes Quest for Permission to Pollute: Interest Groups Press Congress for Cap-and-Trade Allowances in Climate-Change Legislation.  The article begins with a rather concerning story on changes to the bill and the impacts. During the final days of the drafting of a 946-page climate […]

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Al Gore says supports it. Paul Krugman says support it. Two Nobel Prize Winners. Who am I to question them? That is a question received, in more than one space, when it comes to the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act. Well, with all due respect to the infallibility of a Nobel Prize […]

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