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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 -
No End to Energy Stalemate
Opinion -To download a PDF version of this document, click here.In December 2004, the National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) released a report titled "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges. -
Kyoto Causing Economic Anguish in Japan, Britain
Opinion -One of the reasons the U.S. Senate unanimously rejected the Kyoto Protocol was the treaty's disproportionate punishment of the U.S. economy relative to other nations. -
Russian Parliament OKs Kyoto Protocol
Opinion -Russia's upper house of parliament voted 139-1, with one abstention, on October 26 to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The lower house, the State Duma, had approved the measure four days earlier by a 334-73 vote. -
CO2 Reductions Falling Short in Great Britain, Proving Costly in Japan
Opinion -A new report from Cambridge Econometrics concludes Great Britain's 20 percent domestic carbon-reduction goal "is likely to be missed by a large margin," according to a July 30 Bloomberg News report. -
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. -
Chicago Sun-Times Features Heartland Commentary on Climate Stewardship Act
Opinion -Editor's note: The following commentary by Dr. Jay Lehr and Joseph L. Bast of the Heartland Institute was published by the Chicago Sun-Times on June 28. -
Washington Governor Signs Costly Global Warming Bill
Opinion -Washington Governor Gary Locke (D) on March 31 signed House Bill 3141, requiring new power plants planned in the state to offset or mitigate 20 percent of their expected carbon dioxide emissions. -
British Studies Show Prohibitive Cost of ‘Renewable’ Energy
Opinion -A pair of British studies released in March and April 2004 show relying on wind power or other non-nuclear "renewables" to reduce air pollution or carbon dioxide emissions forces consumers to pay at least twice as much as they currently pay for -
Earth Day Activists Ignore Progress
Opinion -Environmental activists launched the annual Earth Day ritual in 1970 to bemoan the "havoc" wreaked on Earth by humans. Thirty-four years later, environmental activists still rant and rave about what we "bad" people do to the "good" Earth. -
Heartland President Addresses Common-Sense Environmentalism
Opinion -I’d like to thank the Libertarian Party for inviting me to speak this morning. -
Conn. Global Warming Bill Will Pump up Energy Prices
Opinion -Energy prices and unemployment in Connecticut are expected to spike if the state legislature passes a greenhouse gas control measure supported by Governor John Rowland (R). -
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Will Be Costly
Opinion -In August 2001, six New England governors, in conjunction with five eastern Canadian premiers, signed a pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 and at least 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. -
Danish Government Committee Exposes Union of Concerned Scientists
Opinion -Best-selling author Michael Crichton recently observed that environmentalism is a kind of pseudo-religion. He’s right. Environmentalists have their own holy day (Earth Day, April 22), their saints (Rachel Carson, Jacques Cousteau), demon (George W. -
Kyoto Down the Drain? What Next?
Opinion -There were momentous happenings at the October 2003 World Climate Conference in Moscow. World-shaking, one might say. -
Senator Refutes Global Warming Hypothesis: Part 3 in a series
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, delivered a detailed critique of global warming theory on July 28, 2003. -
Global Warming Bill Defeated in Senate
Opinion -Senate legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions—the first of its kind since the Senate unanimously rejected the Kyoto Protocol in 1997—was defeated on October 30 by a vote of 55-43. -
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. -
Energy Realism Overtaking Energy Alarmism
Opinion -In the 1970s and 1980s, energy policy debates in the U.S. were mostly over the regulation of oil and natural gas prices and allocation. -
Why Farmers Should Worry about Global Warming
Opinion -You might think the biggest worry farmers should have about “global warming” is the effect it would have on their crops. -
No. 102 – Greenhouse Gas Control: Implications for Agriculture
Publication -Policy Studies -Legislation is being considered at the federal and state levels to slow the onset or ameliorate the effects of global warming. -
Senate Should Oppose Energy Rationing
Opinion -May 5, 2003 The Honorable Mr. Henry Hyde Chairman, Committee on International Relations U.S. -
EPA’s Particulate Matter Standard Challenged
Opinion -A recent study by Competitive Enterprise Institute Adjunct Scholar Joel Schwartz challenges the scientific basis of the Bush administration’s Clear Skies Initiative and Senator Jim Jeffords’ (I-Vermont) Clean Power Act. -
Senate Committee Wrestles with Climate Change Legislation
Opinion -Responding to concerns raised by colleagues and policy experts nationwide, Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) on April 8 removed from a draft energy bill language critics warned would have facilitated back-door implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.