Environmental Exchange - Vol. 2 Issue 10

Published on Wednesday, July 01, 2009
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCHANGE

  

Vol. 2 Issue 10

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Top Story: Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill

 

Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) proposed a global warming bill that would establish a cap-and-trade program for the United States. The proposed legislation will have little to no impact on global temperatures yet certainly lead to significant cost increases for all Americans. Luckily, research organizations and think tanks across the nation have been providing valuable input on this bill in regards to costs/benefits.

Costs of Waxman-Markey:

• To calculate your household costs, visit the Tax Foundation Household Cap-and-Trade Burden Calculator here.
• Click here for the Heritage Foundation economic analysis.
• Click here for the Tax Foundation economic analysis.
• Click here for the Beacon Hill Institute analysis.
• CBO Grossly Underestimates Cost of Cap-and-Trade by David Kreutzer et al.
• Don't Give Away Cap-and-Trade Permits! By Alan Viard
• The Carbon Tax/Cap-and-Trade Royal Rumble by Philip Levy
• When a Cap Isn't a Cap, The Trades Are a Charade by Kenneth Green
• Cap-and-Trade All Cost No Benefit by Martin Feldstein
• Cap-and-Trade: A Handout for Corporations and Huge Tax for Consumers
• For Farmers, Cap and Trade is a Permanent Drought Season by Nicolas Loris
• At what Price, Green? By Terry L. Anderson and Gary D. Libecap
• Immorality of Waxman-Markey
• Cap-and-Stick-It-To-All by Aparna Mathur
• Waxman-Markey All Pain No Gain by Paul Chesser
• Politics of Cap and Trade Just Cost You $2 Trillion Dollars by Conn Carroll
• Waxman Markey Global Warming Proposal's other Problematic Provisions by Ben Lieberman
• Waxman's Cap-and-Trade Plan Functions Like a Tax Increase by Ronald Bailey
• Cap-and-Trade would Devastate the Texas Economy by Kathleen Hartnett White

‘Benefits' of Waxman-Markey:

• The Benefits of Waxman-Markey by Conn Carroll
• Why Waxman-Markey Won't Work by Christopher Monckton
• Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (the IPCC-based arithmetic of no gain) by Chip Knappenberger

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  Issues and Resources:

Climate Change

• American Enterprise Institute
• Emissions Controls, Myths and Realities by Drew Thornley
• Don't Give Away Cap-and-Trade Permits! By Alan Viard
• The Carbon Tax/Cap-and-Trade Royal Rumble by Philip Levy
• When a Cap Isn't a Cap, The Trades Are a Charade by Kenneth Green
• Cap-and-Trade All Cost No Benefit by Martin Feldstein
• Beacon Hill Institute
• The Economic Effects of Proposed Cap-and-Trade Legislation
• Capital Research Center
• Greener Than Thou: The American Left Takes Up Christian Environmentalism by Patrick Reilly
• Cascade Policy Institute
• Global Warming? No! Now it is Called Climate Change by Todd Wynn
• Update on the Status of the Oregon Cap-and-Trade Bill by Todd Wynn
• Oregon's Little Carbon Footprint by Todd Wynn
• Testimony on HJR 48: Amending the Oregon Constitution to Allow Taxing of Carbon Emissions by Todd Wynn
• Climate Strategies Watch
• Commandeered by Climate Alarmists by Paul Chesser
• Another Green Policy that Leads to Death by Paul Chesser
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Hurricane Damage and Global Warming by Daniel Sutter
• Heartland Institute
• U.N. Climate Refugee Report Based On Flawed Science by James Taylor
• New Climate Change Report Applauded by Scientists, Economists, Policymakers by Dan Miller
• The Climate-Change Report the UN Failed to Write by Dan Miller
• Heritage Foundation
• Waxman-Markey Global Warming Bill: Economic Impact by Congressional District by Karen Campbell and David Kreutzer
• CBO Grossly Underestimates Cost of Cap-and-Trade by David Kreutzer, Karen Campbell, and Nicolas Loris
• Questions on EPA's Cost Estimates for Waxman-Markey Climate Change Legislation By David Kreutzer and Nicolas Loris
• Cap-and-Trade: A Handout for Corporations and Huge Tax for Consumers by Nick Loris and Ben Lieberman
• For Farmers, Cap and Trade is a Permanent Drought Season by Nicolas Loris
• Response to the NRDC Critique of The Heritage Foundation's Analysis of the Waxman-Markey Bill by David Kreutzer et al.
• Hoover Institution
• At what Price, Green? By Terry L. Anderson and Gary D. Libecap
• Manhattan Institute
• Dunce Cap and Trade by Jim Manzi
• National Center For Policy Analysis
• The Big Chill
• Immorality of Waxman-Markey
• Congestion Pricing
• No Regrets Warming Solutions
• Saving the Planet but Losing the Patient
• 10 Cool Global Warming Policies (pdf) by Iain Murray and H. Sterling Burnett
• Worse than Fiction
• 10 Cool Global Warming Policies by Iain Murray and H. Sterling Burnett
• Cool Global Warming Policies
• Property and Environment Research Center
• Thoughts About the Relative Merits of Cap-and-Trade versus Emissions Taxes For Controlling Carbon Emissions by Bruce Yandle
• Reason Foundation
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Without Reducing Mobility by Robert Poole
• Energy Price Deceit by Ronald Bailey
• Science and Public Policy Institute
• Twisted Science and Crooked Policy by Christopher Monckton
• Not Too Late to Kill Cap and Tax Bill by Robert Murray
• Global Warming is No Global Crisis By Christopher Monckton
• Climate change Regime is Immoral by Paul Driessen
• The Global Warming Sideshow: Why the Environmentalists Scare Tactics May Render Real Climate Research Irrelevant by Matthew Woessner
• Tax Foundation
• Household Cap-and-Trade Burden Calculator
• Who Pays For Climate Policy? New Estimates of the Household Burden and Economic Impact of a U.S. Cap-and-Trade System by Andrew Chamberlain
• Texas Public Policy Foundation
• Cap-and-Trade would Devastate the Texas Economy by Kathleen Hartnett White
• Van Ness Feldman
• Climate Policy Update

 

Energy

• Center for the American Experiment
• Minnesota Senate Begins to Recognize the Need for Affordable Energy by Peter Nelson
• Heritage Foundation
• Nuclear Energy Renaissance: Global Supply Chain Critical by Jack Spencer and Daniella Markheim
• Five Free Market Priorities for a Nuclear Energy Renaissance by Jack Spencer and Nick Loris
• The American Energy Act: An Energy Bill with Some Real Energy In It by Ben Lieberman
• The American Energy Act Puts Nuclear on the Fast Track by Jack Spencer
• Slouching Towards a Huddled Masses Housing Policy: Saving Energy With Higher Densities by Ronald Utt
• A Shock at the Pump? By Ben Lieberman
• Independence Institute
• Electric Bills Not On Display at Denver Museum of Nature and Science by Todd Shepherd
• Mercatus Center
• America's New Fuel Economy Cartel: Trading Freedom For Barrels of Oil by Bruce Yandle
• National Center For Policy Analysis
• Propane and the Pickens Plan
• Mexico's Wind Farms
• The GOPs Energy Alternative
• A Shock at the Pump
• Ethanol's Grocery Bill
• Reason Foundation
• Killing Motorists by Alex Adrianson
• Energy Price Deceit by Ronald Bailey
• Science and Public Policy Institute
• Obama's Energy Triangulation by Joel Kotkin

Environment

• American Enterprise Institute
• Hearing on Scientific Integrity and Transparency Reforms at the EPA by Kenneth Green
• Beacon Hill Institute
• Green Collar Job Creation: A Critical Analysis by David Tuerck et al.
• Cascade Policy Institute
• Timber Jobs: Jeopardy or Opportunity? By Karla Kay Edwards
• Ethan Allen Institute
• The Return of Reactionary Liberalism
• National Center for Policy Analysis
• Think Twice about Green Transport
• Pacific Research Institute
• Agriculture and the Environment Are Not Opposing Forces by Amy Kalieta
• Property And Environment Research Center
• 7 Myths about Green Jobs by Morriss et al.

News

International

• US Draws Line With china on Climate Technology AFP, June 22, 2009
• Mexico ‘Green Fund' Better than Carbon Credits Associated Press, June 22, 2009
• Norway Plans Deep Sea CO2 Storage June 15, 2009
• Climate Laws Added to Police Workload Herald Sun, June 12, 2009
• No Money, No Climate Change Inspection: India Hindu News, June 11, 2009
• Experts Rebut IPCC on Its Analysis of the Medieval Warm Period, June 10, 2009
• Full Climate Deal in Copenhagen Unlikely AFP, June 10, 2009
• Mining "Ice" That Burns Technology Review, June 8, 2009
• Seeking the Face Of Climate Change June, 9, 2009
• Think Twice about 'Green' Transport: Scientists Say AFP, June 7, 2009
• Another Tough Summer For Arctic Sea Ice June 6, 2009
• UN Report: Nature Best Controls Climate Gases Associated Press, June 5, 2009
• Major Gas Field Found Off of Norway Barents Observer, June 4, 2009
• Ethiopian Rebels Threaten Foreign Oil Companies Reuters, June 3, 2009

National

• Major Energy Climate Bill Chugs Towards House Vote Associated Press, June 26, 2009
• Climate Bill Showdown: Obama, Dems Pressing Hard Associated Press, June 25, 2009
• Powerful Ideas: Mile-High Kites Could Generate Electricity Live Science, June 22, 2009
• Study: US Technology Key to China and Climate Associated Press, June 19, 2009
• Climate Trap New York Times Editorial, June 15, 2009
• It is Time to Cool the Planet Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2009
• Democrats Struggling for Consensus on Climate Bills Washington Post, June 15, 2009
• Cash For Clunkers To Be Put to the Test Financial Times, June 14, 2009
• Congress Abandoning Obama's Clean Energy Goals Associated Press, June 12, 2009
• Farm Offsets Likely In Final Climate Change Law Bloomberg, June 11, 2009
• Reindeer and Caribou Populations Plunge June 11, 2009
• House Approves Cash for ‘Clunkers' Bill USA Today, June 10, 2009
• Energy Department Fails at Its Own Energy Audit Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2009
• Ocean Power Gets Fast Track Scientific American, June 5, 2009
• Government Rethinking Playground Risks Associated Press, June 4, 2009
• Energy Prices Slump of Surplus of Oil in Storage Associated Press, June 3, 2009
• Give Agricultural a Shot at Carbon Credits: Spokeswoman Reuters, June 1, 2009

Alaska

• Federal Regulations Might Slow Nuclear Plant Near Ester Daily News-Miner, June 16, 2009
• How Much Oil is in the Arctic? The Business Insider, June 13, 2009
• Inuit Village Blames Climate Change For Strange Events Canadian Press, June 4, 2009

Illinois

• Stalled Carbon Capture Coal Plant in Illinois Gets OK Associated Press, June 12, 2009
• Troy's Celebrated Solar House Left in Dark Detroit News, May 15, 2009

New York

• Oil Rises to New High for 2009 Associated Press, June 4, 2009

Oregon

• Power Lurks in Oregon Forests Oregonian, June 25, 2009
• Oregon Trades in Hybrid Tax Breaks, Goes Electric Chicago Tribune, June 12, 2009
• Green jobs grew seven times faster than overall jobs in Oregon, study finds Oregonian, June 10, 2009
• Tualatin River Healthier than DEQ Report Implies Hillsboro Argus, June 1, 2009
• Ten Sea Lions Killed Near Bonneville Dam This Season Oregonian, June 1^, 2009

Texas

• Drilling Might Be Culprit Behind Texas Earthquakes Associated Press, June 12, 2009

Washington

• Oysters in Deep Trouble Seattle Times, June 14, 2009

 

Links of Interest

• http://www.sepp.org/
• http://www.wattsupwiththat.com/
• http://www.petitionproject.org/
• http://www.climatestrategieswatch.com/
• http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/
• http://www.icecap.us/
• http://www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org/
• http://www.climatechangefraud.com/
• http://www.junkscience.com/
• http://www.co2science.org/
• http://www.globalwarming.org/
• http://www.friendsofscience.org/
• http://www.climateaudit.org/
• http://www.iceagenow.com/
• http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/
• http://www.demanddebate.com/
• http://ilovecarbondioxide.com/
• http://www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org/
• http://www.sustainableoregon.com/
• http://www.cfact.org/
• http://www.climatedepot.com/
• http://www.surfacestations.org/
• http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/
• http://www.algorelied.com/
• http://www.worldclimatereport.com/

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