Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Extreme Weather Events Are Killing Fewer People than Ever Before The world's death rate from extreme weather events was lower from 2000 to 2010 than it has been in any decade since 1900... |
| Got Cheap Milk? It is twice as energy efficient for people in Britain to eat dairy products from New Zealand than from domestic producers... |
| Learning from Solyndra Systematic evaluations of federal programs find no evidence that 60 years of federal energy tech spending have produced more benefits than costs... |
| Energy Exploration Would Create Jobs and Raise Revenue without Raising Taxes At least 19 billion barrels of easily recoverable oil lie off the currently restricted Pacific and Atlantic coasts and the eastern Gulf of Mexico... |
| Environmental Protection Agency Regulations Killing Jobs Up to 91 gigawatts of existing generation nationwide are "likely" or "very likely" to be retired as a result of new Environmental Protection Agency rules... |
| The Cost of German Fear Last month Germany's economics ministry released a study that estimated that the cost of the nuclear phase out in lost jobs, higher energy prices and carbon emissions permit fees will be about $46 billion... |
| Securities and Exchange Commission Bears Down on Fracking There have been few if any documented cases of contamination by the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing... |
| The Alarming Cost of Climate Change Hysteria According to the Government Accounting Office, annual federal climate spending has increased from $4.6 billion in 2003 to $8.8 billion in 2010, amounting to $106.7 billion over that period... |
| The Dirty Secret behind Clean Jobs Environmentalists should not base their calls to action on specious claims of job creation... |
| Cost of Clean Air On the Friday before Labor Day, President Obama withdrew drafted rules intended to cut smog levels; the smog rule was one of seven new regulations that would cost more than $1 billion each year... |
