Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| A Good Fracking Story Hydraulic fracturing is cost-effective and the benefits to the environment speak for themselves -- carbon dioxide emissions have dropped 20 percent despite adding 57 million energy producers... |
| The Focus on Green Jobs Is Misplaced The federal government should place the emphasis on creating all types of jobs rather than putting priority on creating nebulous green jobs... |
| Hydraulic Fracturing: Critical for Energy Production, Jobs and Economic Growth In the past 60 years, hydraulic fracturing has retrieved 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas; 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas alone is enough to heat 15 million homes for one year... |
| Fuel Economy Rules Trump Smart Growth The annual overall reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from the new federal fuel standards would be equal to the 30 year impact of smart growth policies... |
| Obama's Fuel Standards Don't Add Up The price of new cars will rise by $4,000 to $11,000 between 2008 and 2025 because of the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards... |
| What's to Blame for the Summer Gas Price Spike? Americans paid higher prices at the pump over the Labor Day weekend than during any previous Labor Day weekend... |
| Obama Mileage Mandate Will Fuel Auto Disaster The Honda Fit would need to get 61 miles per gallon by 2025 to satisfy new "corporate average fuel economy" standards -- double what it gets today... |
| Would a Carbon Dioxide Tax Be Efficient? Unilateral U.S. policies such as a carbon tax would be futile regardless of the assumption made about the underlying climate science... |
| Can Ethanol Cut Foreign Oil Imports? Ethanol would likely disappear from the marketplace absent federal subsidies and mandates, says Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Final Rules Set On Car Mileage Newly released final fuel-economy standards could increase new car prices by $3,000... |
