Michael Giberson The Washington Post reports on their hometown industry – lobbying Congress – in a report on efforts by the wind and solar power industry to have tax credits renewed. Some of the quotes have me wondering whether John Whitehead has had any success with his “lost green jobs challenge.” Here, for example, is …
Michael Giberson At the Becker-Posner Blog, the authors tackle rising food prices and the latest Neo-Malthusians concerns that the world is reaching the limits of the earth to produce food. Curiously, both cite the thoroughly flogged old Neo-Malthusian book, Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, but no current examples. Gary Becker writes to claim the Neo-Malthusians …
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Michael Giberson In a post at Common Tragedies, Erica Meyers reports the release of an addendum from the RGGI auction design team that responds to certain of the comments filed in response to their earlier report. As she reports, “One of the more interesting findings is that ‘clock auctions’ may be more susceptible to explicit …
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Michael Giberson An article in the Houston Chronicle reports that the high price of corn is putting the squeeze on the cattle feedlot business: [John] Van Pelt, the manager of a cattle feedlot in this town 50 miles south of Amarillo, is now paying $215 a ton for cattle feed — double what he spent …
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Michael Giberson In a post titled “The $100 Billion Windfall: Why Utilities Love Cap-and-Trade“, Environment Capital notes the release of a new study by Point Carbon, financed by the WWF, which sought to estimate the “potential and scale of windfall profits in the power sector in selected countries (UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland) during …
Michael Giberson Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), co-sponsor of the proposed Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act, says if Congress and the President don’t act fast to enact the bill, as much as $20 billion in investment will be delayed or canceled and and more than 100,000 jobs lost. At the Environmental Economics blog, John Whitehead says, “Show …
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Michael Giberson On Monday night, Republicans in the Kansas House voted to apply a tax of $37 per ton of CO2 emitted from coal fired power plants for emissions in excess of 110 percent of the statewide average. Proceeds from the tax would be distributed to the large coal plants in the state with the …
Lynne KIesling Can someone please explain the logic of the argument in this Wired Autopia blog post to me? EV advocates say the California Air Resources Board is trying to kill the electric car — again. Under a proposal pending before the Air Resources Board, state regulators would slash — from 75,000 to as few …
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Michael Giberson Even in the Houston area, with an economy built on the oil industry, some consumers are looking for a little extra — and sometimes a lot extra — energy efficiency in their home purchases. Via the Houston Chronicle: Local builders for years have touted the energy efficiency of their homes, such as better …
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Lynne Kiesling Have you seen the Galvin Electricity Initiative Sad Socket ad? In the half-century since our electric power system was completed, little has been done to update it — and it shows. We’re relying on an obsolete electricity grid that is dangerously vulnerable, even to forces as predictable as thunderstorms and as tiny as …
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