Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| The Reality behind Clean Energy Standards The new stealth approach to energy policy being pushed under the guise of a Clean Energy Standard is dishonest... |
| No Evidence Global Warming Is Making Hurricanes Worse The "Accumulated Cyclone Energy" index, which tracks global tropical cyclone energy back to 1970, peaked in the mid-1990s and in recent years has been at or near the lowest point ever recorded... |
| For Solar, No Guarantees While demand for solar panels is rising, competition from Chinese manufacturers has driven down prices and made it hard for U.S. makers to compete... |
| Five EPA Rules that Will Cost More than $1 Billion The Environmental Protection Agency has published five proposed regulations that would inflict costs on the U.S. economy over or near $1 billion a year... |
| Texas Wind Energy Fails, Again Even though wind turbines account for about 10 percent of Texas' summer electricity-generation capacity, wind energy was able to provide just 1.3 percent of the electricity needed on a recent summer day... |
| What Drives Gas Prices? About 85 percent of oil price hikes are due to supply and demand, and the remaining 15 percent is likely attributable to environment-conscious regulations... |
| Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises The green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned... |
| "Green Scissors" Proposes Billions in Cuts to Federal Giveaways The 2011 Green Scissors report identifies $380 billion over five years in subsidies to industries that damage the environment... |
| Corporate Sponsors to Keep Parks Open Over three years, a partnership between Coca-Cola and Stater Bros. Markets raised $2 million for California state parks... |
| Uncertainty Causes Oil Rigs to Flee The Interior Department nearly tripled the minimum bid price for deepwater leases in the Gulf of Mexico from $37.50 an acre to $100 an acre for a December auction... |
