E-Team | Commentaries

Time for Inaction on Global Warming

Jason Reid — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:24:58 GMT

Congress should consider the costs before passing “cap and trade.”

Solar Sticker Shock Hits Washington County

Danny Foreman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:05:08 GMT

Kittitas County, Washington is experiencing sticker shock as the true cost of solar power is coming in at more than three times the promised price.

In less than one month’s time, the cost estimate for a proposed 75 megawatt solar power plant has soared by more than 200 percent.

New North Dakota Oil Find Could Be a Gusher

wgoriola — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:06:19 GMT

Dozens of very productive new wells near North Dakota’s Bakken oil field have state officials believing another massive new oil find may be at hand.

Carbon Offsets: Scam, Not Salvation

Jason Reid — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:59:26 GMT

In the battle against climate change, most media attention has been paid to “cap-and-trade” schemes, under which countries set upper limits (“caps”) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and allow companies to sell (“trade”) unused emissions rights to other firms. However, there is a second path to global warming salvation: Carbon offsets.

H. Sterling Burnett: Developing shale oil may solve our energy crisis

Jason Reid — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:01:36 GMT

Politicians lament the fact that the United States imports about 66 percent of its oil — about 9,000 barrels every minute. Yet Congress has done little to remedy the situation. Instead, it has all too often erected barriers to domestic energy production.

Waxman-Markey Deserves to Die

Jason Reid — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:35:29 GMT

The fresh news about Washington—the White House and Congress—is that things are not going very well. A new president in full command of public-policy matters is having problems, from health care to taxes to massive federal spending and now to the Waxman-Markey bill, one of the oddest and most far-reaching pieces of legislation advocated by the new administration.

Waxman-Markey Bill Would Raise Electricity Prices $846 Billion

Jason Reid — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:03:16 GMT

The Waxman-Markey bill to restrict carbon dioxide emissions would cost $846 billion in the next decade alone, in the form of required payments for emissions allowances, according to a June 5 report from the Congressional Budget Office.

The Big Chill

Jason Reid — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:20:10 GMT

Congress shouldn’t fight global warming by freezing the economy.

Climate bill seems pretty dim

Jason Reid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:18:15 GMT

It’s been called a highly regressive tax, imposing relatively higher costs on the poor. Another agrees that it would impose a larger burden, relative to income, on low-income households than on high-income households. And these are just its advocates.

Removing the Political Shortage of Water

Jason Reid — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:22:57 GMT

About 82 percent of Americans receive drinking water via publicly owned water systems, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Many of these municipal and regional systems operate at a loss, meaning users’ fees don’t cover the cost of treating and delivering the water.

Sapping America's Energy

Jason Reid — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:14:24 GMT

If Americans don’t start paying attention to what Congress is up to, our nation’s energy policy may seriously change for the worse. A bill styled the American Clean Energy and Security Act, sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, soon goes before the House.

Los Angeles Voters Reject Solar Initiative

Jason Reid — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:58:52 GMT

In a surprising blow to environmental activists and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union, Los Angeles voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have required the city to install 400 megawatts of solar panels by 2014.

EPA Considers California Greenhouse Gas Waiver

Jason Reid — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:53:15 GMT

The National Center for Policy Analysis appreciates the opportunity to comment on the President’s request to the EPA to reconsider its previous denial of California’s 2005 Waiver of Federal Preemption under Section 209(b) of the Clean Air Act. We would like to take this opportunity to caution EPA Administrator Jackson against reversing the denial of the request made by former EPA Administrator Johnson in 2008.

Carbon offsets scam

Jason Reid — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:35:03 GMT

While much media attention has been paid to “cap-and-trade” schemes as a way to prevent global warming, there is a second path to global warming salvation – carbon offsets. Indeed, the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee hosted hearings recently on how to use carbon offsets to reduce the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions – it promises to be more smoke and mirrors.

The Sky Is Falling?

Jason Reid — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:33:57 GMT

Imagine it is 1979 — nine years before NASA’s James Hansen first stoked fears of human-caused global warming in testimony before a Senate committee chaired by then Sen. Al Gore. Few people in the mid- to late-970s were thinking about the terrors of global warming; science journals, major newspapers, and newsmagazines instead were focused on a 20-year cooling trend that some claimed was a possible harbinger of a coming ice age.