Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| The Problem with a "Green Domestic Product" By placing a disproportionate focus on preserving the environment and maintaining the status quo, a "green" economic accounting standard would stifle economic innovation and discourage civilization-altering discoveries... |
| Yucca Mountain: The Safe Future for Nuclear Energy A 1,000-megawatt nuclear-electric plant produces about one metric ton of waste per year, versus 1 million tons from a similarly sized coal plant... |
| Unleashing the North American Energy Colossus The total North American hydrocarbon resource base -- oil, natural gas and coal -- is more than four times greater than all the resources extant in the Middle East... |
| New Study on California Global Warming Law Indicates Higher Costs The average California family will end up paying an additional $2,500 annually by 2020 when the state's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 is fully implemented... |
| Germans Cough Up for Solar Subsidies A new study says that the latest plans for Germany's energy future will saddle consumers with an additional $377 billion in costs for solar power... |
| Solar Getting Burned Again The U.S. solar market has seen the prices for panels drop by more than 50 percent in the past year at a time when the value of imports of Chinese-made solar cells nearly quadrupled from $639 million in 2009 to $3.1 billion in 2011... |
| U.S. Drivers Slow to Embrace All-Electric Vehicles Sales of the all-electric Nissan Leaf, which can travel about 75 miles on a single overnight charge, plummeted 69 percent in June from a year earlier... |
| No to Nukes A 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study showed that nuclear energy costs 14 percent more than gas and 30 percent more than coal... |
| Which Is Better for the Environment: Transit or Roads? The cost of driving per passenger mile is about 22 cents; the total cost of light rail, including subsidies, is approximately 98 cents per passenger mile... |
| Harvesting Trees Will Prevent Fires The significant increase in acres lost per wildfire could be addressed if preventative measures were permitted, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
