E-Team | Commentaries

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.

GM Grapes Raise Hopes for Midwest Wine Industry

Jason Reid — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:53:20 GMT

One of the most effective, widely used herbicides in the United States-known as 2, 4-D-has a serious drawback: It devastates grapes. That makes it very difficult to raise grapes in the Midwest, because 2, 4-D is widely used on popular staple food crops including corn and wheat, and it can harm grapes up to two miles away from its point of application.

DEMING: Global warming freeze?

Jason Reid — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:42:29 GMT

President-elect Barack Obama recently declared his intention to mitigate global warming by enacting a cap-and-trade policy that would reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by the year 2050.

Californians, Floridians Support Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling, Polls Say

Jason Reid — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:16:01 GMT

Recent polls show the citizens of California and Florida, where opening the Outer Continental Shelf to offshore oil and natural gas exploration has historically been controversial, have changed their minds and now support natural resource recovery.

Nuclear Renaissance: Nuclear Power Is Clear Choice For Reliable, Clean Electricity To Power Continued Economic Progress

Jason Reid — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:02:46 GMT

Concern over how America will meet its future energy needs is causing the power industry, politicians and even some environmentalists ask whether new nuclear power plants should be part of the nation’s energy mix. Increasingly, they are answering in the affirmative.

Government Fiddles While America's Forests Burn

Jason Reid — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:31:40 GMT

Images of people being forced to flee their homes before walls of flame near Los Angeles and San Diego have once again thrust the risk of wildfires into the public view. Truth is, the fire season never went away.

Drill, Baby, Drill

Jason Reid — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:02:24 GMT

Energy is essential in America, and 40% of what we use comes from oil and 23% from natural gas. That comes to about 21 million barrels of oil and 64 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day. Domestic oil production is declining—down nearly half since 1970—so imports are up, from one-third of what we needed in 1970 to just under 60% today. So we need to discover and access more of our own energy resources.

Green Schools Don’t Make Grade

Wales Goriola — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:08:11 GMT

When education is the topic, two issues are constantly at the forefront: Student performance and funding. And every few years some half-baked idea comes along concerning how to improve one or the other that sounds good in theory, but when tested, gets a failing grade.