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• Australia’s Emissions Trading Legislation Political Football

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  With all the talk currently about the massive Health Care Bill, those other 2 Bills regarding the ‘perceived’ threat of Carbon Dioxide emissions may slide a little into the background. We need reminding that just because they are not at the forefront of the news, they are still important. Those two Bills, the ...
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• The Huge Mistake - Climate Change Solutions 2009

  
  Pro Nuclear Democrats — Authority: 112
  This video is very fresh on youtube with less than 500 views and already Ive read these attorneys, Laurie Williams and Alan Zabel, are being pressured by their employer, the EPA, to take it down even though they explicitly state nothing in the video is intended to represent the views of the EPA or the Obama ...
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• Energy ABCs: Playing Americans For Fools

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  By Alan Caruba I have long harbored strong doubts about the knowledge that most Americans possess regarding the sources of energy they largely take for granted. We flip a switch and the lights go on. We pull up to the gas pump and drive away. We use machines that are totally dependent on having enough ...
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• Against Waxman-Markey

  
  Only In It For The Gold — Authority: 555
  A few months ago when some scientists, notably Jim Hansen, and less notably myself, were expressing doubts about cap-and-trade, the more politically active of our acquaintance were urging us to STFU, since we are presumed totally unrealistic about how Washington works. Notably it was David Roberts (in combination with ...
  4 days ago

• Weathering Congress, Global Warming

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  By James Carafano, PhD Weather changed. People died. They called it the “Little Ice-Age,” a period that spanned the mid-1600s. As global temperatures dropped, the number and frequency of wars rose. Worldwide mortality rates increased. Famines struck across Asia. The pattern of human misery seemed so ...
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• The Ten Essential Renewable Energy Stories This Week

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 121
  news.JPG Well, its Friday, and for those of you that follow EnergyBoom you know what that means.  And, for those of you who are reading EnergyBoom for the first time, you are about to find out.
  4 days ago

• Big-ag Strikes Again

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 132
  A few months ago, as Waxman-Markey was being dragged across the US House of Representatives’ floor, the agricultural lobby demonstrated how powerful they were, flexing their muscle and extracting concessions from the lawmakers. Now that the debate is raging in the US Senate, they’re at it again. Ricardo Bayon ...
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• Yes We Can: Destroy Obama’s Climate Change Agenda

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 624
  Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says the purpose of cap and trade is to enrich investment banks by Bill Levinson The enemy doesn’t expect us, reckons us 100 versts away, and if a long way off to begin with, 200, 300 or more– suddenly we’re on him, like snow on the head; his head spins. Attack with what comes up, ...
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• Growing Wave of Climate Change Tort Suits Create Uncertainty

  
  Ohio Environmental Law Blog — Authority: 450
  Two federal appeal courts (Fifth and Second Circuits) have issued decisions that will allow lawsuits to proceed that assert common law tort claims based on business contribution to climate change.  Comer v. Murphy Oil USA Inc . is the second decision in the last two months to allow claims to proceed.  Earlier in ...
  6 days ago

• Secy. Chu’s Convoluted Climate Economics

  
  MasterResource — Authority: 506
  Last week, at the first Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on S. 1733, the Kerry-Boxer “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,” Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu explained the economic rationale for adopting a Kyoto-style cap-and-trade program. His argument, in a nutshell, goes ...
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• EPA Lawyers Speak Out Against Cap and Trade

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two lawyers currently working at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), spoke out against cap and trade in their Washington Post column. Zabel has first hand experience with cap and trade, overseeing California’s cap and trade and offsets programs. The article is full of good ...
  1 week ago

• The Cap and Trade Boycott Continues

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  For the second day, Republican Senators boycotted the scheduled markup of the Kerry-Boxer (S.1733) cap-and-trade bill. Senator Inhofe (R-OK) appeared briefly to emphasize that the minority is holding firm to their demands that the Environmental Protection Agency complete a comprehensive economic analysis. Rather ...
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• Major Media Outlets Ignore Report on Energy

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 556
  Members of the mainstream media — people who call themselves “journalists” — seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 — this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey ) are ...
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• The Vagaries of Estimating Cap-and-Trades Impact on Consumers

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  Predictions for the impact of cap-and-trade on individual consumers, or even states, should be viewed with some skepticism, a policy specialist says.
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• The Future For Electrical Power After Waxman Markey And Kerry Boxer (Part 3)

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  PART THREE OF FOUR PARTS October Chart for U.S. Electrical Power Consumption. In the earlier 2 posts, I showed how the 2 Bills before Congress, the Waxman Markey Bill, and the Kerry Boxer Bill have the specific aim not to reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions, but just to impose a new tax on those emissions. ...
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• Xcel seeks nearly $180 million rate hike to cover coal-fired Comanche 3

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  Xcel Energy’s rate-case hearing before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission runs through the end of the week, with some wags saying the state’s largest utility intentionally asks for too much ($177.4 million) so the PUC can lop off $30 million or $40 million and rubberstamp the rate hike. Xcel ...
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• WHAT’S THE REAL COST OF GLOBAL WARMING TAXES?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

  
  Center for Global Food Issues — Authority: 106
  CHURCHVILLE, VA—The leftish Brookings Institution and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce basically agree that the energy taxes in the House Waxman-Markey bill could total $9 trillion over ten years. As an economist, I look at these forecasts and wonder “How can we possibly know?”      These estimates ...
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• The Future For Electrical Power After Waxman Markey And Kerry Boxer (Part 2)

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  PART TWO OF FOUR PARTS October Chart for U.S. Electrical Power Consumption. In the first post of this series, I mentioned how these two Bills currently before the Congress are nothing more than a huge new tax, mainly on electrical power, which has become a staple of everyday life. We are told that the intent ...
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• Climate Change Bills Take Aim at ‘Red’ States

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 556
  Five times in as many weeks, I’ve published posts containing alarming details of what lies in store for Americans should the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill become law.  Today, I point readers to a Heritage Foundation blog post, because of the ominous message it delivers in its opening sentence: Unless they ...
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• The Future For Electrical Power After Waxman Markey And Kerry Boxer (Part 1)

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  PART ONE OF FOUR PARTS This post started out as a small single post on a specific subject, but as is always the case with my posts, further research always seems to be required, and that sometimes throws up something else, which, rather than just allude to, I actually prefer to explain, and in that way ...
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