Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Real Energy Tax Reform Eliminates Subsidies By crowding out private investment and competitive parties to energy technology's development, tax credits remove barriers to premature entry and allow the product to operate independent of efficient choices... |
| Plastic Bag Bans Are Bad for the Environment Reusable bags are only more environmentally friendly than plastic bags if they are used 103 times, yet on average they are used only 51 times before they are thrown away... |
| Obama's Green-Energy Jobs Lie The Labor Department's green jobs training program showed that only 2.5 percent of individuals originally enrolled were still employed in the jobs for which they were trained six months after the start of their job... |
| Greenhouse Gas Tax Could Inflate Airfares U.S. airlines estimate an EU program forcing airlines to pay a carbon tax for emissions over a specific level will cost them $3.1 billion over the next decade... |
| Weathering Global Warming in Agriculture If governments continue to subsidize and mandate biofuel production, midcentury prices of crops could be 30 percent above current levels... |
| When the Color of Unemployment Is Green MIT economist Michael Greenstone found that changes to the Clean Air Act eliminated 590,000 jobs over a 15-year period (1972 to 1987)... |
| Texas Wind Power Lines Bust Budget The total estimated cost of Texas' wind energy infrastructure rose $4.9 billion to $6.8 billion -- a 40 percent increase that amounts to $800 per household in the state... |
| The High Cost of Wind Energy Installing an additional 320,000 megawatts of wind power at $2.43 million per megawatt will cost the United States about $777.6 billion or about $44.7 billion every year for the next 19 years, amounting to a carbon tax of $54 per ton... |
| Environmental Protection Agency Rules Threaten Jobs The Environmental Protection Agency plans to regulate over 10,000 commercial and industrial boilers that by some estimates will cost up to 800,000 jobs... |
| Will Green Energy Make the United States Less Secure? Production of solar panels in countries other than China fell from 85 percent of the world market in 2003 to 58 percent in 2009, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
