The End of Cap-and-Trade

The New York Times sounds the death knell on cap-and-trade as a method for regulating carbon emissions: Mr. Obama dropped all mention ...

The Senate Moves on the Energy Bill

The Senate Environment and Public Works committee took up the energy bill this morning and honed in quickly on nuclear energy – honed in on...

The Energy Bill Passes the House

Not by much – 219-212 – with a fair number of Democrats voting against it and all but eight Republicans likewise. But it passed. The Senate...

Standing Alone on Emission Reductions

We admit were puzzled by Martin Feldstein’s op-ed on cap-and-trade in the Washington Post. Feldstein is a professor of economics at Harvard...

It’s Energy Bill Week!

Okay, we know that’s not going to cause as much excitement in some quarters as it does ours, but it does look, at least in the House, like ...

Rep. John Shimkus on Cap-and-Trade

A couple of posts below, we wrote about Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s objections to cap-and-trade and suggested the arguments were not very well...

A Simple Little Cap-and-Trade Tale

In a story about President Obama’s budget priorities, this popped out at us: As for cap-and-trade, the official said the administrati...

Former Secretaries of Energy on the Next Energy Secretary

We're still waiting on a copy of the transcript, but Katie Fehrenbacher over at earth2tech is reporting on an interesting exchange bet...