Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| EPA Plans to Require Cleaner Gas The American Petroleum Institute says new Environmental Protection Agency standards would ultimately raise the price of producing gasoline by up to nine cents a gallon -- a cost that would likely be passed on to consumers... |
| Energy Efficiency, Not Efficiency Mandates Producers have a much better ability to meet consumers' demands than any government mandate or subsidy program... |
| Green Jobs Haven't Lived up to Obama's Promise America can boast only 500 green jobs in solar electric power generation, but 886,000 green jobs in government... |
| LOST at Sea: Why America Should Reject the Law of the Sea Treaty There are strong economic and environmental reasons for why the U.S. Senate should continue to reject ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, says Iain Murray, an adjunct fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Government Efficiency Mandates Harm Consumers New technologies are prone to unforeseen costs and should not be mandated in the name of efficiency... |
| Los Angeles Moves to Eliminate Reliance on Coal-Powered Energy The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is moving forward with a plan to end the city's reliance on coal-powered energy... |
| Earth Hour Will Harm Environment Earth Hour only addresses a small fraction of total energy consumption by asking participants to only turn off their lights while leaving heating, air conditioning, television, computer, mobile phone and other appliances out of the picture... |
| Green Cars: Not So Clean After All It costs 30,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission to produce an electric car, equal to about 80,000 miles of travel, yet it's only 14,000 pounds to build a conventional car... |
| Fracking Could Reduce Budget Deficit Increasing natural gas production would shrink our trade deficit and reduce the budget deficit, says Bob McTeer, a distinguished fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Pesticide Unfairly Blamed for Bee Die-Offs There is limited evidence that new insecticides are the cause of the bee "die-offs" around the United States and Europe... |
