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Can’t Afford a New Car? Washington Partly to Blame
NEwscom The average price of a new car in 2012 was $30,500. Wondering why? One contributing factor is the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. All models from a single manufacturer must...
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Carbon Tax: Australia’s Experience Is a Chance for the U.S. to Get It Right
Album / Raga / Prisma/Newscom “This is the most effective and efficient way to drive innovation to find better, less-polluting ways of producing power, goods and services,” Australian Treasurer Wayne...
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Environmentalists and Energy Experts Working Together for Fracking Solutions?
Newscom Saving the environment and producing shale oil and gas by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) are not mutually exclusive; however, it seems the two sides have been unable to move past their...
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Congress Wants to Tell Americans How to Be More Efficient? Really?
Newscom In the interest of trying to make better choices for consumers, Congress has been determined to legislate efficiency mandates for American homes and businesses since the late 1970s. The latest...
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Earth Day: People Are Our Most Precious Resource
Newscom Google is celebrating Earth Day with a doodle of sunny skies, mountain peaks, hills, and blue waters. Sure, it’s appropriate to celebrate this wonderful planet we call home. But Google—along...
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Carbon (And Practically Everything Else) Just Got More Expensive
Newscom The Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a rule at the end of May that mandates the amount of energy microwaves can use on standby mode starting in 2016. The DOE tries to legitimize the rule by...
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Environmentalists Sue, Settle, and Apologize Later
Protest was organized by the Hamtramck Environmental Action Team and supported by the Sierra Club. (Jim West/ZUMA Press/Newscom) Environmental groups are the biggest abusers of a legal tactic known as...
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Renewable Fuels: Raze the Maize Mandate
Ethanol plant in Turner County, South Dakota (Newscom) Senators John Barrasso (R–WY), Mark Pryor (D–AR), and Pat Toomey (R–PA) introduced a bill today to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)....
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Climate Change: The Cost of “Bold Action”
This week, President Obama stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and declared that “the effort to slow climate change requires bold action.” Some in Congress say we need to take such bold...
View ArticleObama’s “Case for Action” on Climate Change Doesn’t Cut It
Yesterday, President Obama announced his climate action plan to drastically cut carbon dioxide emissions and mandate greater energy efficiency. This four-paragraph “case for action” on climate change...
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Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Around the World
Newscom If it ain’t broke, the government will break it for you. That seems to be the lesson to draw from other nations that have implemented climate change energy plans similar to the ones Obama...
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Carbon Tax: Van Hollen’s Latest Version
Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). (Photo: Bill Clark/Roll Call Photos/Newscom) Representative Chris Van Hollen (D–MD) is expected to soon introduce a new rendition of his cap-and-dividend carbon...
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Australia’s Carbon Policy: Just Do Something
Album / Raga / Prisma/Newscom At this time last year, the Australian government began collecting the world’s most expensive carbon tax. A year later, it seems unanimous among Australia’s two biggest...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline: Shaheen–Portman Bill the Wrong Place for a Keystone Amendment
The Heritage Foundation has already made the case that the Shaheen–Portman energy efficiency bill promises only more federal intervention and corporate welfare. Adding an amendment to approve the...
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Georgia Leader Beats Drum for Nuclear Energy
Newscom Georgia is riding a wave of new nuclear energy that, five years ago, many thought would be more crowded by now. Georgia Public Services Commissioner Tim Echols, a champion of using market...
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Thank You, George Mitchell, for Fracking
Newscom George P. Mitchell passed away on Friday, July 26, leaving behind a legacy as the man who unlocked America’s vast oil and natural gas shale resources. Born into a poor family, Mitchell wasn’t...
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House Pushes Back Against White House Carbon Measures
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-PA. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Photos/Newscom) Before the House dismissed for August recess, it sent two important messages related to regulating (or not) carbon dioxide. The...
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Court Kicks Yucca Mountain Review Back in Motion
Newscom Despite the politics surrounding Yucca Mountain and the Obama Administration’s policy to terminate the project, a federal court today held the executive branch to its chief role: executing the...
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Yucca Mountain: NRC Takes First Step to Follow the Law
Newscom The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) took a constructive step toward finishing the job on Yucca Mountain. Yesterday, the NRC announced its plan of action to complete the safety evaluation...
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Court Decision on Nuclear Waste Fee Offers Chance for Reform
Everett Collection/Newscom The D.C. Circuit Court delivered a welcome conclusion this week in NARUC v. Department of Energy: The Department of Energy (DOE) cannot charge commercial nuclear power plant...
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