Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Climategate 2.0 and Scientific Integrity Climategate, both 1 and 2, are textbook cases of gross lapses in professional ethics and scientific malfeasance, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Global Warming and Adaptability What is almost universally ignored in the climate change debate is that if we want to help real people overcome real problems we need to focus first on adaptation... |
| Household Electricity Bills Skyrocket Households paid a record $1,419 on average for electricity in 2010, the fifth consecutive yearly increase above the inflation rate, adding about $300 a year to what households pay for electricity... |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports Are Misleading By 2100 the gross domestic product per capita of today's "developing" countries will be double that of the United States in 2006, even taking into account any losses resulting from climate change... |
| For Obama's Green-Car Revolution, Fits and Starts The Obama administration has poured roughly $5 billion in taxpayer funds into the electric-car industry, but analysts say taxpayers may not see a return on their money soon, if ever... |
| Impacts of Transportation Policies on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in U.S. Regions Technological improvements to vehicles resulting in higher fuel efficiency, along with traffic signal timing and speed harmonization, hold the most hope for significant reductions in future carbon dioxide emissions... |
| Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Automobiles Wider application of existing technologies could produce greenhouse gas emission reductions of up to 54 percent by 2050 with current hybrid technology... |
| General Motors Willing to Buy Back Volts General Motors will buy Chevrolet Volts back from any owner who is afraid the electric cars will catch fire... |
| CAFE Standards: Fleet-Wide Regulations Costly and Unwarranted Under regulations proposed last week by the Obama administration, fleet-wide fuel economy would have to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, dwarfing the current standard of 27.3 miles per gallon... |
| EPA Proposes Ban on Rat and Mouse Poisons The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's plan to ban 20 rat and mouse control products because they use loose bait is a classic example of government overreach, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
