Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| California's New Green Tax A 2009 study by the California Small Business Roundtable concluded that the costs of California's new cap-and-trade tax could total $3,857 per household by the end of 2020... |
| Say Yes to Building the Keystone Oil Pipeline The benefits to be gained from the Keystone Oil Pipeline's completion far outweigh the possible negative consequences... |
| The Keystone XL Energy Project Is Much More Than a Pipe Dream By 2019, employment related directly to the Keystone XL project could reach as much as 179,000 jobs, conferring $6.5 billion in aggregate personal income gains... |
| Green Energy Is a Luxury Good Japan announced it is reconsidering its plan to cut carbon dioxide by 25 percent in the next 8 years, citing a wealth drain in its attempt to meet the target... |
| Think Again: Nuclear Power The emissions reduction advantage that nuclear plants have over coal power cannot be ignored... |
| Red Flags for Green Energy Of the $35.2 billion in funds for energy initiatives distributed as part of the 2009 stimulus, $15 million went to a program to train workers in new "green" skills; 62 percent of the program's graduates remain unemployed... |
| Don't Count Oil Out Global energy use now totals about 241 million barrels of oil equivalent per day -- approximately equal to the total daily oil output of 29 Saudi Arabias... |
| Creation Myth The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's $7.2 billion in "clean tech" money created only 7,140 jobs, at a cost of about $1 million each... |
| America's Worst Wind Energy Project The majority of the funding for the $1.9 billion, 845-megawatt Shepherds Flat wind project in Oregon is coming courtesy of federal taxpayers at a cost of $16.3 million per job... |
| EPA Overreach Compliance costs for the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule are estimated at $2.4 billion annually... |
