The climate triumvirate’s new energy bill will replace cap and trade with two or more different strategies–a carbon tax, perhaps a carbon fee, maybe a carbon dividend–each targeting a different segment of the economy and each with its own timing.
By…
2010
Around the world they’re prosecuted and persecuted for doing what the world needs now–recycling.
I’m reminded of this by the latest issue of the new Indian magazine The Caravan, which features Mridhu Khullar’s profile of Banav Bibi, who sorts through…
If you were the union rep, would you let 1,100 workers lose their jobs when the city cuts bus and train routes? Or would you spread the pain across your membership by reopening hard-fought contracts, letting politicians whittle away your…
Fifty-five nations have attached formal emissions targets to the Copenhagen Accord, the United Nations reported today. But most nations, including the U.S., are hedging their pledges:
“In the range of 17 percent,” reads the U.S. commitment now…
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. And in this case, that’s a good thing. In spite of shifting rhetoric, in spite of the changing hues on the shimmering surface of politics, Obama’s first initiative after his 2010 State of the Union Address…
In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama tied prospects for a climate bill to concessions some environmentalists will find difficult to swallow: new oil derricks off of American coastlines and new nuclear power plants.
These…
With Scott Brown’s election to the Senate yesterday, hope has dimmed that the United States will cap its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming year, and on that hope rests the greater hope that the rest of the warming world can do the same.
But the…
The brigands of the left take pride in refusing to compromise, but pride spirals inevitably into the sort of cynicism epitomized by this fresh quote from that posterboy of leftist pride, the uncompromising Ralph Nader:
“The attraction is a three-way…
Exiting Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota are now free to vote in 2010 without concern for reelection.
That could be good news for a carbon cap and trade vote this year. After 2010, prospects look more grim,…
UPDATED with new video from Sea Shepherd, showing the Japanese ship turning toward the trimaran to ram it:
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The whale wars are on again in the Southern Ocean off of Australia. One member of the Sea Shepherd crew was…
