Australia’s Carbon Policy: Just Do Something
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… Read More
Carbon Tax: Still a Bad Idea
An anti-carbon tax amendment will likely be considered as the Senate attempts to pass its first budget in four years. While it has been made… Read More
The Right Time for a Carbon Tax Is Never
Once the electorate was made to realize that cap-and-trade bills (Lieberman-Warner, Waxman-Markey, etc.) were actually taxes on fossil energy, cap and trade became political poison…. Read More
Claim Check Needs to Do Fact Checks
Claim Check, which supposedly fact checks public statements, employs the different-must-be-wrong-theory in dismissing a Heritage analysis because it is an “outlier.” It seems that many… Read More
Window Dressing Cap and Trade Won’t Make the Costs Go Away
Last year Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) rolled out a companion cap and trade bill to the Waxman-Markey version that passed in… Read More
Senator Lieberman’s Honest Quote on Cap and Trade
Senators Lieberman, Graham, and Kerry have come forward with a bold, new proposal on global warming… or not. Here is Senator Lieberman’s description of the… Read More
EPA Lawyers Speak Out Against Cap and Trade
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… Read More
The Cap and Trade Boycott Continues
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… Read More
The Verdict’s In: Cap and Trade Will Not Work
Over the summer The Washington Post called Europe’s experience with cap and trade as “Exhibit A” of what not to do on climate. Yesterday, the… Read More
Today’s Calamity: Senate Concerns on Cap and Trade Cannot Be Fixed
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus made headlines this week for something other than healthcare. On October 27 Senator Baucus said he has “serious reservations” about… Read More
