Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Industrial Masochism: The Carbon Floor Price and Energy Intensive Industry Britain's carbon floor price will add another 10 percent to some major industries' energy costs by 2020... |
| Maryland Spends Millions on Renewable Energy for Just Thousands in Savings Maryland spent $2.3 million last fiscal year on a state-run grant program that helps homeowners purchase and install renewable energy systems, but it brought in only $637,000 in savings... |
| One More Reason to Reject Climate Change Regulation The Environmental Protection Agency, in the absence of checks on its power, is capable of pushing the boundaries far beyond what was intended by Congress... |
| Fuel Efficiency Standards Will Be Expensive Earlier this month the Obama administration unveiled the price tag to the auto industry for its proposed 2017-2025 fuel economy regulations: $157.3 billion... |
| Keystone XL vs. Solyndra The Keystone project would have generated 46 percent more energy each day than the entire country's solar and wind output... |
| Obama's Indefensible Pipeline Punt The Keystone XL line would have a capacity of 700,000 barrels a day and hence bring the entire Keystone system to 1.3 million barrels a day, equal to about 13 percent of the country's total imports... |
| Seeming Green Nearly every green energy source is still more expensive than fossil fuels, even when calculating pollution costs... |
| Precautionary Policies Based on Political Grounds Precautionary policies grant government agencies the power to regulate arbitrarily, targeting products for elimination based largely on political, rather than scientific, grounds... |
| A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search From 2007 to 2010, federal clean energy subsidies jumped from $5.1 billion to $14.7 billion... |
| Hybrid Vehicles Release Less Carbon Dioxide than Total Electric Vehicles A gas-powered Chevrolet Volt produces less carbon dioxide than a battery powered Volt in 18 states... |
