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Economic Development: The Effective Answer to Climate Change
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Read Blog DetailCap-and-Trade in Oregon: A Primer for Legislators and Citizens
Introduction Climate change, and how to deal with it, is literally one of…
Read Blog DetailCap-and-Trade’sTrue Ability to Curb Global WarmingIs Not So Hot
Summary: The decision to regulate greenhouse gases is based on the premise that…
Read Blog DetailKarma Neutral: We do good deeds, so you don’t have to!
If they can do it with carbon, why can’t we do it with…
Read Blog DetailSB 168: Allows State Agencies to Open Facilities for the Generation of Electricity
Testimony for Senate Bill 168 Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee Todd Wynn…
Read Blog DetailMoney for Nothing: The Illusion of Carbon Offsets
Because cap-and-trade programs and other wide-ranging carbon emission reduction strategies rely heavily on…
Read Blog Detail“Global Warming Crisis: Cancelled”
Second New York conference of global warming skeptics announced, expected to draw up…
Read Blog DetailPublic Opinion Polls Express Doubt about Global Warming
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Read Blog DetailOregon’s Carbon Offset Scam
Click here to read this Commentary in PDF format Summary Because cap-and-trade programs…
Read Blog DetailSB79: Requiring Energy Performance Certificates and Increased Building Efficiency Codes
January 22, 2009 Testimony before the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee on…
Read Blog DetailOregon Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policies:The Economic and Fiscal Impact Challenges
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Todd Wynn Tel.: 503-242-0900 Fax: 503-242-3822 E-mail: [email protected] Cascade…
Read Blog DetailGovernor’s Global Warming “Solution” Would Cut Economic Growth in Half
Policymakers in Oregon have concluded that global warming is a crisis, that the…
Read Blog DetailThe Severe Economic Costs of Cap-and-Trade in Oregon
Summary Greenhouse gas reduction strategies should strike a balance between economic costs of…
Read Blog DetailRenewable Energy by Choice, Not Force
Summary Existing voluntary green power programs can increase renewable energy generation without forcing…
Read Blog DetailIs Portland Flushing Its Money Away?
In my wildest dreams I never thought I would be writing about the…
Read Blog DetailWind Power: The “Green” Myth
Summary Wind power is touted as a “green” solution to Oregon?s increasing energy…
Read Blog DetailNuclear Power Can Help Oregon Meet Its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals
On October 27, 2008, Governor Ted Kulongoski announced his Climate Change Agenda to…
Read Blog DetailHey Buddy, Can You Spare a Charge?
Summary Advocates of plug-in vehicles profess that they will reduce air pollution, dependence…
Read Blog DetailLet the Free Market Decide When Oregon Is Ready for More Wind Power
Summary Wind power advocates claim that wind power is a cost effective source…
Read Blog DetailFreedom and the Expansion of the EPA
In April 2007, the Supreme Court concluded that greenhouse gases (GHGs) meet the…
Read Blog DetailWhy Energy Efficiency Doesn’t Always Reduce Greenhouse Gases
Summary Economists know that energy consumption is directly related to energy prices. As…
Read Blog DetailAl Gore’s Impossible Plan For 100% Renewable Energy
Summary Gore has challenged the nation to rely on 100% renewable energy sources…
Read Blog DetailWestern Climate Initiative Offers No Definable Benefit
If you haven’t heard of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) yet, you soon…
Read Blog DetailC-Tran’s New Hybrid Buses: When Going “Green” Costs Lots of Green!
Summary Clark County’s new hybrid buses are costing lots of green for local…
Read Blog DetailIt’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…
Green and red are the Christmas colors. It’s just like Christmas for hundreds…
Read Blog DetailOil: The Energy of the Future
Three years ago, two prominent scientists asked themselves which natural chemical makes the…
Read Blog DetailSustainability is a State of Mind
Summary Sustainability advocates believe that a free-market economy is “unsustainable,” but free societies…
Read Blog DetailFood or Fuel?
Last year the Oregon legislature passed three bills (HB 2210, 2211 and 2212)…
Read Blog DetailClean Air, and Getting Cleaner
Recently the Environmental Protection Agency tightened the standard for ground-level ozone by 11…
Read Blog DetailChange: The Only Constant
Starting with the beginnings of life on earth, change has been a constant…
Read Blog DetailGlobal Warming Skeptics Prepare for International Conference
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James M. Taylor E-mail: [email protected] Hundreds of the world’s…
Read Blog DetailClimate Change Nonsense from Davos
Yale University’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy released a report last week…
Read Blog DetailChange in Nano Doses
Summary Tata Motors’ Nano, the cheapest car in the world, was launched this…
Read Blog DetailSpending to Stop Climate Change Flunks the Common Sense Test
Summary Al Gore’s recent Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change…
Read Blog DetailTriple Failure: New Report Examines the Effects of Portland’s 18-Year-Old Polystyrene Foam Ban
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. Tel.: 503-242-0900 Fax: 503-242-3822 E-mail:…
Read Blog DetailCarbon Grandstanding
Last week Gov. Kulongoski and the governors of five other western states signed…
Read Blog DetailEmergency Price Controls: The Wrong Policy
Oregon has recently passed a new law (Senate Bill 118) in an attempt…
Read Blog DetailRecycling Police on Aisle Nine
The Oregon legislature is about to create a new entitlement program for consumers….
Read Blog DetailThe Great Green Power Swindle
One of the governor’s top priorities is SB 373, a bill mandating that…
Read Blog DetailDesigning the Carbon Cartel
Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced on Monday that he has joined 4 other governors…
Read Blog DetailComments on the Discussion Draft Report of the City of Portland Peak Oil Task Force
Speculation about “peak oil” is an intellectual fad that has been fashionable at…
Read Blog DetailIf Only Capitalists Weren’t So Boring: Andrew Revkin on the politics of global warming
New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin spoke in Portland on January 17th…
Read Blog DetailAn Inconvenient Comparison: Should Oregon Trust Europe’s Model of CO2 Trading?
Introduction Carbon trading programs have recently been implemented in Europe, and proposals for…
Read Blog DetailWake up and Smell the Ammonia
In another one of its hyper-ventilating editorials on global warming, The Oregonian today…
Read Blog DetailMetro’s Natural Area Bond Measure: Open Space for Whom?
Introduction Metro has placed a $227.4 million bond measure on the ballot for…
Read Blog DetailAn Inconvenient Comparison: Should Oregon Trust Europe’s Model of CO2 Trading?
Summary Oregon’s carbon dioxide emissions are already so low that voluntarily participating in…
Read Blog DetailAn Inconvenient Poll
According to a recent poll commissioned by several environmental groups, only two percent…
Read Blog DetailWrong Turn on Biofuels
The Portland City Council recently approved an initiative mandating the sale of ethanol-blended…
Read Blog DetailRethinking Renewable Energy
We are living in an age where growing numbers of individuals and groups…
Read Blog DetailClimate Change and the Oregon Economy: Still Searching for the Smoking Gun
Summary Several studies on global climate change fall short on empirical data, relying…
Read Blog DetailFreedom Fuel: How and Why Biodiesel Policy Should Reflect Freedom
Two years ago my family began making our own homemade diesel out of…
Read Blog DetailHybrid Tax Credits Promote Inefficiency
Companies buying hybrid gas-electric cars might be saving more on their taxes than…
Read Blog DetailAttorney General begs for more federal regulation
On October 23 the Attorneys General for 12 states, including Oregon, joined with…
Read Blog DetailThe Mythical World of Transit-Oriented Development: Light Rail and the Orenco Neighborhood, Hillsboro, Oregon
Executive Summary During the past decade, Portland-area planners have embraced Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)…
Read Blog DetailPaving the rails with gold
Since the voter defeat of Measure 28, public officials in the Portland region…
Read Blog DetailSustainable development
The United Nations conference on sustainable development is winding down after a week…
Read Blog DetailLesson from New Zealand: Plow under U.S. farm subsidies
President Bush showed his anti-consumer, anti-taxpayer side on Monday, May 13: he signed…
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