Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Green Jobs Stimulus Program Wastes Cash A recent audit found that the green jobs program was training workers that already had jobs and didn't need green energy skills... |
| Political Energy: We All Lose More than $153 million has been spent on energy-related television ads by lobbyists and companies trying to influence policymakers and the general public that their particular source of energy is the best... |
| The Real Stimulus: Low-Cost Natural Gas The growth in shale gas will save the United States from spending $100 billion on imported liquefied natural gas... |
| California Gasoline Consumers Hurt by Few Suppliers, Outages Virtually all 14.6 billion gallons of gasoline sold in California last year were made by nine companies that own the state's refineries... |
| An Energy Policy for Long-Term Economic Growth U.S. oil consumption is expected to increase by a third over the next 20 years, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Michigan Groups Aim for Green Energy Mandate in State Constitution Michigan's Proposition 3 would require the use of more renewable energy and put a $12 billion burden on both residential and commercial customers... |
| Maker of Batteries Files for Bankruptcy It is difficult for the Obama administration to explain the failure of electric car battery maker A123 Systems considering the similar fate other energy companies like Solyndra... |
| Gas Prices Doubled, Obama Locks up National Reserve In August, the Obama administration closed off 23.5 million acres of the most productive areas of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska... |
| Carbon Tax Would Kill Major Industries, Hurt U.S. Consumers The amount of electricity from carbon emission rich coal is down 10 percent in four years and expected to fall another 10 percent in eight years... |
| The Environmental Protection Agency's Moving Goalposts The EPA frequently moves the goalposts further away for companies and industries trying to abide by countless federal regulations... |
