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Californians’ Global Warming Fervor Cools
Submitted by Felicity Barringer on 7.30.2009
Californians’ eagerness to battle global warming seems to be cooling a bit: The latest survey on the state’s environmental attitudes, released on Wednesday, showed that 47 percent consider the threat of global warming very serious, a decline of seven percentage points from two years ago.
California Counts the Cost on Climate Change Legislation
Submitted by Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 7.22.2009
Last week, an investment management and advisory firm comprised of professors from California State University, Sacramento, released a report attempting to estimate the costs to small businesses - and therefore to California's economy - of implementing Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
Waxman-Markey: An Exercise in Unreality
Submitted by Kenneth P. Green on 7.20.2009
The Waxman-Markey energy bill passed by the House of Representatives is a great illustration of how the government can take an idea that sounds good in theory - emission trading - and turn it into a nightmarish piece of legislation that is larded with pork; perverted by special-interest horse-trading; and will most likely be not only ineffective, but will produce perverse and negative consequences for both the economy and the environment.
Rep. Tom McClintock and "California's Meltdown"
Submitted by Richard Morrison on 7.17.2009
CEI and the Pacific Research Institute recently co-hosted a Capitol Hill briefing on “California’s Meltdown” - the unprecedented combination of flawed economic, energy and environmental policies that have left the state with a massive budget deficit and facing even tougher times ahead.
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