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Analysis: Environmental Activists Just Don’t Get It
Opinion -America's entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are passing up a chance to earn billions of dollars by investing in technologies to reduce California's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. -
Finding Better Ways to Achieve Cleaner Air
Opinion -Air quality regulation is complicated. -
Missouri Town Hikes Taxes for Green City Hall
Opinion -Citizens of Cottleville, Missouri will be forced to pay an extra one-half percent sales tax to finance a "green" city hall, under the terms of a proposal announced by city administrators. -
Bush Tightens Fuel Economy Mandates for Light Trucks
Opinion -The Bush administration on August 23 announced the first significant tightening of corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards in 30 years. -
Penn. Board Considers Mercury Restrictions
Opinion -Pennsylvania's Environmental Quality Board on August 16 approved a request by the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to examine the feasibility of imposing mercury restrictions more stringent than federal standards. -
Analysis: Moderate Environmental Group Now Leans Left
Opinion -The environmental advocacy group Resources for the Future (RFF) has long proclaimed itself a "moderate" voice in the debate over environmental policy. Its supposed neutrality and authority enabled the Washington, DC-based think tank to raise $8. -
Minnesota, Montana Consider Ethanol Mandates
Opinion -Consumers in Montana will have to purchase gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol if a bill supported by Gov. -
Auto Manufacturers’ Association Joins Suit Challenging California Greenhouse Gas Law
Opinion -The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) announced on December 7 that it has joined a lawsuit filed by Central California auto dealers challenging the state's plan to force significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions of new vehicles sold in -
Kennedy Attacks Bush on Environment
Opinion -America's environmental-lobbying establishment has declared war on the Bush administration. With a series of reports, Web sites, and publicity campaigns, the nation's leading environmental activist groups have sought to tar President George W. -
EPA: Northeastern States’ NOx Emissions Dropped 30 Percent in 2003
Opinion -A cap-and-trade program begun last year in eight Northeastern states has cut nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions there by 30 percent, according to EPA statistics. -
Massachusetts Gov. Romney Unveils Climate Protection Plan
Opinion -Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) on May 6 unveiled the state's new Climate Protection Plan, which encourages private citizens and requires state agencies and the state's large businesses to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. -
The Economics of Greenhouse Gas Control and the California Clean Car Program
Opinion -Since my distinguished colleague, Dr. Sallie Baliunas, is going to address the science of global warming, I will devote my 15 minutes to the economics of the issue. -
Feds Tighten Fuel Economy Mandates
Opinion -Federal regulators on April 1 imposed controversial new restrictions on light trucks, vans, and SUVs, mandating a 1.5 mile per gallon increase in fuel economy. Under the new standards, auto manufacturers must achieve a fleet average of 22. -
Feds Tighten Fuel Economy Mandates on Light Trucks
Opinion -Federal regulators on April 1 imposed controversial new restrictions on light trucks, vans, and SUVs, mandating a 1.5-mile per gallon increase in fuel economy. Under the new standards, auto manufacturers must achieve a fleet average of 22. -
Dems Attack NSR Reform
Opinion -The Bush administration’s recently announced plans to reform the New Source Review provisions of the Clean Air Act are under assault by activist environmental groups and several northeastern state attorneys general. -
No. 95 – Heartland Policy Study Looks at Feasibility of Bush’s Proposed Hydrogen Fueled Vehicles
Opinion -Quick Links Policy Study (pdf) This study examines the sustainability of cars and trucks in the first decades of the twenty-first century. -
EPA Restores Flexibility to New Source Review
Opinion -Aging power plants, refineries, and factories will have greater flexibility in updating their equipment and meeting Clean Air Act requirements, the Bush administration announced November 22. -
America leads at Johannesburg summit
Opinion -One person, two contrasting images. On September 4, the final day of the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, a packed hall of professional demonstrators repeatedly booed and heckled U.S. -
EPA: Time to Reform New Source Review
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency released on June 13 its Report to the President on New Source Review, the part of the Clean Air Act that regulates emissions from new or substantially modified factories and power plants. -
The car of the future
Opinion -In “Hybrid Cars: Less Fuel but More Costs” (Business Week, April 15, 2002), Paul Raeburn bursts the bubble of those relying on the future of electricity to power our automobiles ... -
EPA enforcer quits with a flourish, joins left-leaning activist group
Opinion -A top Environmental Protection Agency enforcement official resigned with a flourish on February 27, joining a left-leaning environmental activist group and blasting the Bush administration on his way out the door. -
SUVs and the addiction to taxation
Opinion -Just when the blame-America-for-September 11 campaigns appeared to be running out of gas, a new version is rapidly gaining momentum. Blame the SUV! The idea that gas-guzzling SUVs are somehow feeding U.S. -
White House revising Clean Air rules
Opinion -White House officials spent the first month of the year putting together proposed changes in rules enforcing the Clean Air Act. -
Economist warns against false market of CO2 controls
Opinion -Attempting to make CO2 controls more palatable to the American public and advocates of the country's free-market economy, some policy wonks are suggesting a "market-oriented" approach to eliminating so-called greenhouse gas emissions.
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