Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Mojave Solar Project Killing Threatened Desert Tortoises The federal government allows atrocities against an endangered species to be perpetrated by an alternative energy effort, yet no such ambivalence would exist were these efforts put forth by a traditional oil company, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Green Jobs Don't Grow on Trees Programs to provide certification and training for employment in green industries may actually leave participants unemployed in the long run, as they increase the supply of green workers without increasing labor demand... |
| Medieval Warm Period Was Global Event A team of scientists from Syracuse University has found that contrary to the "consensus," the Medieval Warm Period approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn't just confined to Europe... |
| EPA Takes Aim at Coal Plants New rules set to be introduced by the Environmental Protection Agency would limit the permissible emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to a little more than half of what a typical coal plant emits today... |
| An EPA Power Grab It is widely accepted that a legislative proposal boosting average fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon would not pass in the 112th Congress... |
| Fracking Cuts Greenhouse Gases The United States emitted nearly 9 percent less carbon dioxide in 2009 than it did in 2008, mostly due to the wider employment of natural gas... |
| Why Europe Is Wrong about Canada's Oil Sands Oil derived from sand -- like Canada's -- emits as much greenhouse gas emissions as Nigerian or Venezuelan crude oil, but only 6 percent more than the average crude oil consumed in the United States... |
| Solar Industry Faces Subsidy Cuts in Europe Alternative-energy experts suggest that with solar panels' declining prices, subsidy cuts are not only acceptable, but to be expected... |
| Firm Sells Solar Panels, Taxpayers Pay A heavily subsidized solar company received a U.S. taxpayer loan guarantee to sell solar panels to itself... |
| Wind Power Will Cost Britain The cost of expanding wind turbines to 40 gigawatts, in order to provide 31 percent of the United Kingdom's electricity by 2020, could run as high as £75 billion ($120 billion)... |
