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New California carbon market a success, participants say

By: Jason Dearen 11/19/12 9:32 PM
California has sold out of the first pollution permits issued  at an inaugural auction as part of a landmark offensive against greenhouse gases, regulators said Monday, adding that the sale went smoothly. The effort to curtail carbon emissions involved the sale of 23.1 million permits — each allowing for the release of 1 ton of carbon — for $10.09 apiece, the California Air Resources Board said. Read More

Brown warns about warming and touts remedy

By: The Associated Press 11/16/12 7:13 PM
Gov. Jerry Brown told attendees at an environmental conference Friday that climate change must be prevented or humans might one day be forced to live on another planet. Read More

Bureaucrats don't mind jobs 'leakage'

By: Steven Greenhut 10/23/11 4:00 AM
As California’s unemployment rate hovers above 12 percent, even the state’s Democratic leaders — notorious for regulating, taxing and complaining about California’s business community — are talking about jobs. Read More

Obama's Commerce nominee thought Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade "acceptable"

By: Mark Tapscott 05/31/11 3:32 PM
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, has posted on his web site a video clip of John Bryson, President Obama's nominee as Secretary of Commerce, explaining why he found Waxman-Markey, the House-passed version of cap-and-trade, "moderately acceptable." That ought to spark some interesting questions for Senate Democrats, since they refused to approve Waxman-Markey or any other cap-and-trade program proposed by Obama or anybody else. Here's the video:   Read More

The EPA just can't help itself

By: Christopher Prandoni 01/17/11 2:24 PM
Not content with backdooring the unequivocally unpopular cap-and-trade legislation through regulating carbon emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has looked to further cripple American energy producers, manufacturers, and businesses by blanketing the industries in bureaucratic uncertainty. Read More

Like a puff of smoke, Chicago Climate Exchange just fades away

By: Barbara Hollingsworth 11/06/10 7:00 PM
In August, The Examiner reported that the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) was laying off employees. Read More

Voters say no to Dems who pushed carbon tax (Updated)

By: Matthew Sheffield 11/01/10 7:00 PM
One of the more inexplicable votes that soon-to-be-former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forced on her Democratic caucus was on the issue of carbon rationing. Despite there being no public demand for it and no chance of anything similar to the Waxman-Markey climate bill passing in the Senate, Pelosi nonetheless impelled Democrats to vote for it. Read More

Why it matters who benefits

By: Timothy P. Carney 10/20/10 7:00 PM
President Obama, as a practice, falsely portrays the two parties. The GOP, he maintains, are shills for big business, whereas he is the scourge of the special interests. I spend much of my time correcting these falsehoods, and today I took some heat from the Left for doing this. Read More

Big Business, Koch, and free markets

By: Timothy P. Carney 10/19/10 12:00 AM
The New York Times‘ Kate Zernike and Center for American Progress’s Lee Fang both “obtained” a guest list from an event this past summer where I spoke. I was invited to speak on the condition of confidentiality, but now that the guest list is out there, I’ll fess up. Read More

Big Business, Koch, and free markets

By: Timothy P. Carney 10/18/10 7:00 PM
The New York Times‘ Kate Zernike and Center for American Progress’s Lee Fang both “obtained” a guest list from an event this past summer where I spoke. I was invited to speak on the condition of confidentiality, but now that the guest list is out there, I’ll fess up. Read More
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