The EPAs Carbon Footprint
On December 7, as delegates from around the world gathered in Copenhagen for the United Nations climate conference, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that her...
View ArticleSolving Car Pollution Problems Through Technology Fixes
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in using public policy to shift travel behavior, most notably in the U.S. Department of Transportation's strategic plan that emphasizes "livability" and...
View ArticleChinese Environmentalism: Prestige Over People?
In the Western imagination, China is as much an environmental basket case as it is an economic miracle. Its prosperity, we are told in one account after another, has been purchased by a wholesale...
View ArticleObama Isn't Fooling Anyone
President Barack Obama penned a witty Wall Street Journal op-ed this week, titled "Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System."In it, he extolled the virtues of a free market system. And to prove that his...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Were For Fracking Before They Were Against It
The world’s projected natural gas supplies jumped 40 percent last year. How is such a thing possible? Until a decade ago, experts believed that it would be technically infeasible to exploit the...
View ArticleDeregulation of Nuclear Power Saves Money and Reduces Pollution
“Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power,” a working paper out of Berkeley’s Energy Institute at Haas, finds that the deregulation of the nuclear industry in the...
View ArticleEPA jumps the gun with job-killing rules
Twice this year, President Obama asked federal agencies to review regulations to ensure that they are not interfering with efforts to rebuild the U.S. economy. In January, he signed an executive order...
View ArticleOzone Standards Not Scientific Either
In my commentary in today’s Washington Times, I argue that the EPA is using unnecessary, premature regulations that are costing industry billions of dollars: EPA is under no obligation to develop new...
View ArticleObama Scraps Ozone Regulation
President Obama today announced that he will put a stop to the EPA’s effort to ratchet down national air quality standard for smog-creating ozone. This is a much welcomed announcement.The proposed...
View ArticleEarly Success for Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD) Vehicle Insurance in California
Nearly three years ago today California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner proposed a voluntary pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) insurance option for California drivers. At the time, state regulation...
View ArticleSome Health Benefits of Ground-Level Ozone
For decades, environmentalists have been calling for drastic limits on ozone to protect public health. But the benefits of ground-level ozone are often ignored.In a recent paper, a team from the...
View ArticleTwo Examples of EPA Overreach
The idea of out-of-control bureaucrats has become a major topic of discussion in politics, with debates over the role of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rising to the level of nationalized...
View ArticleHouse Votes to Delay "Boiler MACT"
The House voted late Thursday night to delay implementation of the "Boiler MACT" rule, national emission standards currently being rolled out by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort...
View ArticleThe EPA Is Overreaching Again
On October 13th, the House voted to postpone the implementation of Environmental Protection Agency’s “Boiler MACT” regulations. Coming only a few weeks after President Obama’s high profile intervention...
View ArticleEPA Ignores Improved Air Quality to Advance Regulation
A new report finds that many of the air quality goals of the Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) have already been achieved. Thus, these controversial and costly rules are largely unneeded.CSAPR is...
View ArticleReducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Automobiles
Federal, state and local governments are considering or have implemented policies that seek to reduce human emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). This study seeks to assess the relative merits of...
View ArticleImpacts of Transportation Policies on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in U.S. Regions
This report compares the cost and effectiveness of improved fuel economy, transportation system improvements and shifts in travel behavior on the reduction of man-made CO2 emissions in urban areas. We...
View ArticleEPA's Utility MACT - More Policy-Driven Science
Today at 2pm, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will visit a children’s hospital in Washington, D.C. and unveil the Agency’s new Utility MACT rules. She will stand at a podium, most likely surrounded by...
View ArticleThe Facts Behind the EPAs Latest Proposal
On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put a regulation on the books that will cost $10 billion a year and will do almost nothing to accomplish its aim of improving public health. It is...
View ArticleEPA's Fuzzy Math
In my opinion piece yesterday I argued that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is using fuzzy math to justify massive regulations:MATS claims to target one pollutant but draws all of its...
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