Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a study examining the employment effects of putting a cap on carbon emissions. It concluded that climate legislation would have modest, if not negligible, impacts: “[Climate legislation] would probably have only a small...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
David Brooks recently wrote an excellent column in the New York Times explaining why it is so important for the Senate to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation. In passing, however, Brooks asks whether we know that the benefits of...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
On Monday, April 26th, Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman (KGL) are expected to release their proposed climate legislation. If properly crafted, climate legislation will reduce dangerous global warming pollution, increase national security by reducing oil consumption, help kick start America’s...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
My colleague, Andy Stevenson, recently wrote a nice blog outlining how and why America needs to lead the clean energy revolution by passing comprehensive climate and energy legislation. This blog expands upon a critical flaw with an energy-only bill: next...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
As the Copenhagen talks reach decision time, the annual emissions forecast by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) projects lower CO2 emissions than last year’s report. The Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) is released every year by the Energy Information Administration...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
In testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Douglas W. Elmendorf, testified that climate change legislation passed by the House last June (the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES),...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
Bjorn Lomborg, a long time climate skeptic, published an article yesterday in the Washington Post, asserting that reducing carbon emissions would cost the world 40 times more than any benefits we could expect to get. He claims his argument is...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released an analysis on Sept 17. that confirms a modest short-term cost for comprehensive clean energy legislation - around $160 per household per year - or roughly 43 cents per household per day by 2020....
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
America has a historic opportunity to lead the world in an energy transformation, create millions of clean energy jobs, and protect itself from dangerous dependence on foreign oil, all while protecting the planet from the most dangerous impacts of global...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) are at it again, this time running full throttle scare ads across the country (click here for an example) against the American Clean Energy and Security...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released today an analysis of the economic impact of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA). Once again, the news is good, confirming what we've learned from recent studies by the Environmental Protection Agency...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
Recycling their flawed May 13th analysis, the Heritage Foundation just released a new memo criticizing the precedent-setting Waxman-Markey Bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES, HR. 2454). Par for the course, the Foundation gets it all wrong: an...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
ACESA will provide billions of dollars to American farmers who, among other things, can lease land for wind turbines, sell biomass waste for bio-energy production, and sell offset credits to help emitting firms comply with the carbon cap. But in...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
This blog is structured from: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ljohnson/seven_questions_to_ask_of_any.html 1. Top Line Question: How much larger (than 2008) does this model predict GDP will be in 2030 under an emissions cap (do not accept "how much less GDP is relative to no policy"...
Posted by Laurie Johnson in Solving Global Warming
U.S. per capita greenhouse emissions show tremendous differences between states, prompting concern that some states would bear much heavier burdens from a cap on global warming emissions than others. For example, while national per capita emissions are 20.6 metric tons...
