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This does not compute
Gov. Rendell of PA is indignant because GOP legislators are calling his proposed “system benefits charge” or “fee” on electricity a TAX. The proposed…
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Riffing on Jonah
I testified yesterday at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on "global warming issues and the power plant sector." Both my written…
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Biofuel pork
A column by Doug Cameron in today’s (June 20, 2007) Financial Times (”Animal plan incites pork-barrel politics“) provides more evidence (as if any were…
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Coal to Kyoto: We will bury you
You have probably heard that China is building new coal-fired power plants at the rate of one every week to 10 days. In…
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Inconvenient truth–Nobody knows how to meet world power needs without emissions
Kyotoites assure us we can have our cake and eat it too. We can meet the world’s surging demand for affordable energy and,…
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Dingell drops controversial provisions — for now
Today’s National Journal reports that House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D., Mich.) and Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D., Va.)…