Waxman-Markey – Knowledge Problem

Highly Recommended Read on Waxman-markey: The Cap-and-trade Bait and Switch

2 Comments / Environmental policy, Politics / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson David Schoenbrod and Richard B. Stewart explain why the Waxman-Markey “cap-and-trade” bill isn’t, fundamentally, a market-based approach to regulating greenhouse gasses: As a candidate for president in April 2008, Barack Obama told Fox News that “a cap-and-trade system is a smarter way of controlling pollution” than “top-down” regulation. He was right. With cap …

Transparency and Representation in the Waxman-Markey Vote

3 Comments / Economics, Liberty, Politics / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling In his usual trenchant way, Jonathan Adler has hit upon the two things to which I object the most in the Waxman-Markey bill and vote. The first is the one about which I wrote in May: despite all of the tooth-gnashing and knicker-twisting about the cap-and-trade portions of the bill, the really egregious …

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NYT’s Interactive Waxman-Markey Voting Map

1 Comment / Economics, Environmental policy, Politics / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling The New York Times has a spiffy interactive map showing all of the House votes from Friday’s Waxman-Markey bill vote, as well as the entire roll call.