All Entries Tagged With: "cap and trade"

Climate bill in peril on Capitol Hill as lawmakers face consumer pressure over higher energy costs

In Washington, the climate bill which proposes a 20 percent gut in greenhouse gases by 2020 and an 83 percent cut by 2050, is running into stormy weather on Capitol Hill.
According to news reports, Republicans are opposed to the bill and numerous Democrats are queasy about the potential increase in consumer energy costs. House Majority [...]

May 07, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Every green job created in eight years by the Spanish government came at the expense of 2.2 regular jobs lost.”

“House Minority Leader John Boehner previously estimated one green-job bill “would spend a whopping $275,000 in taxpayer dollars for every new job it aims to create,” effectively taxing each U.S. household $6,700. “Green jobs are not so much created as they are bought with massive taxpayer subsidies,” said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., who released the [...]

May 05, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Sen. Boxer says climate-change legislation “ready to go”; “weeks, not months”

In Washington, Senator Barbara Boxer of California said that climate change legislation would come “in weeks, not months” and said that her Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is “ready to go.” Boxer’s carbon cap legislation reached the floor of the Senate last year but was killed by procedural blocks from opponents. Boxer said that [...]

February 05, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0