SPN Environmental Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 2

Published on Wednesday, March 16, 2011
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCHANGE

Vol. 4   Issue 2

Cosponsored by the State Policy Network and Commonwealth Foundation

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Story Highlight:  EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck

The EPA's ever-increasing mandates, from the revised air standards for ozone to the new greenhouse gas emissions standards, will severely impact state economic growth.

Marlo Lewis, Jr. with the Competitive Enterprise Institute accurately stated that, "Americans live under a regime of regulation without representation," as non-elected officials are ushering in vast policy changes with no accountability to the public.  

Efforts to rein in the Agency on the national level include the Defending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act introduced by Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) as well as the Energy Tax Prevention Act. This Act would overturn a number of new greenhouse gas mandates and is expected to be voted on by the House Energy & Commerce Committee this week.

Avenues for states to reclaim their sovereignty are outlined in ALEC's recent publication "EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck: Strategies for State Legislators." You can read more here. 

Issues and Resources:

Climate Change

• American Enterprise Institute
  • Cap-and-Trade by Any Other Name by Kenneth P. Green
• Cato Institute
  • The Current Wisdom: Better Model, Less Warming by Patrick J. Michaels
• Capital Research Center
  • Little Green Monsters: Advocates for the West and Other State and Local Environmental Groups Push the Policy Envelope by Kevin Mooney
  • The Green-Industrial Complex: Big Government + Big Business = Big Environmentalism by Amanda Carey
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose Greater Risks than Global Warming by Myron Ebell
• Heartland Institute
  • No Increase in Extreme Weather by James Taylor
  • Huffington Post Defends False Climate Accusations by James Taylor
  • Green Lake School Teaches Only One Side of Issue by Maureen Martin
  • Extreme weather and global warming by James Taylor
  • House Votes to Eliminate IPCC Funding by James Taylor
  • NOAA Reports No Connection between Global Warming Snowstorms by James Taylor
  • Are humans to blame for snowstorms by James Taylor
• Hoover Institution
  • A Climate Policy for the Real World by Paul J. Saunders, Vaughan Turekian
  • California's Crazy Climate Policy by Gary D. Libecap
• National Center for Policy Analysis
  • Fraud Plagues European Carbon Market
• Van Ness Feldman
  • Climate Change Policy Update - January 3, 2011
  • Climate Change Policy Update - January 10, 2011
  • Climate Change Policy Update - January 18, 2011
  • Climate Change Policy Update - January 24, 2011
  • Climate Change Policy Update - January 31, 2011
  • Climate Change Policy Update - February 7, 2011
  • Climate Change Policy Update - February 14, 2011
  • Climate Change Policy Update - February 22, 2011
  • Climate Change Policy Update - February 28, 2011

EPA Mandates

• American Legislative Exchange Council
  • EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck: Strategies for State Legislators
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Podcast: The EPA vs. West Virginia
  • EPA Guilty of Environmental Hyperbole in Mountaintop Mining Veto by William Yeatman
• Heartland Institute
  • EPA Rules Assign too Much Blame to Florida Farmers by James Taylor
  • New EPA Data Show Futility Of U.S. Carbon Dioxide Restrictions by James Taylor
• National Center for Policy Analysis
  • EPA: Obama's War on Coal
• Van Ness Feldman
  • EPA Expands Climate Agenda to the Current Fleet of Power Plants and Refineries by Kyle Danish, Stephen Fotis, Henry Stern
  • EPA Reverses Army Corps Section 404 Permit by John Iani, Matt Love, Jonathan Simon, Bob Szabo

Energy

• American Tradition Institute
  • The Economic Impact of Montana's Renewable Portfolio Standard by David G. Tuerck, Paul Bachman, and Michael Head
  • The Economic Impact of Colorado's Renewable Portfolio Standard by David G. Tuerck, Paul Bachman, and Michael Head
  • The Economic Impact of New Mexico's Renewable Portfolio Standard by David G. Tuerck, Paul Bachman, and Michael Head
• American Enterprise Institute
  • The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience By Kenneth P. Green
  • Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy by Christopher DeMuth
• Cato Institute
  • The False Promise of Green Energy by Andrew P. Morriss, et al.
• Commonwealth Foundation
  • Gov., Legislature Should Repeal Costly Renewables Mandates by Paul Chesser
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Increase Access to Energy by Myron Ebell
  • End Federal Support for Renewable Energy by Ben Lieberman
  • On Energy Policy Obama Talks Down to Americans by Chris Horner's
  • Testimony to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on "Trade and Green Jobs" by Christopher Horner
  • Podcast: Let the Best Bulb Win
• Heartland Institute
  • James M. Taylor: Scott ought to appoint Public Service Commission members who care about keeping consumers' costs down, creating jobs
• Heritage Foundation
  • Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste Policy: A New Beginning by Jack Spencer
  • Three Policy Changes to Help with Gasoline Price by David Kreutzer
  • Economic Realities of the Electric Car by Nicolas Loris, David Kreutzer
  • A Big Future for Small Nuclear Reactors? by Jack Spence, Nicolas Loris
  • A Good Energy Bill Can Make Gas Prices and Electricity Affordable by Nicolas Loris
• Hoover Institution
  • Beware of the Green Energy Crusade by Richard A. Epstein
  • Corn Ethanol: Who Pays? Who Benefits? by Ken G. Glozer
• John Locke Foundation
  • Time for a Change: New Legislature Should Realign Its Positions on Environmental Issues by Roy Cordato
• National Center for Policy Analysis
  • The Midwest Wind Surtax
  • Retailers Cash in as the Ban on Old-Style Bulbs Kicks In
  • Oil Spill Hysteria
  • Energy Should Be Job One for the New Congress
  • Clean Energy Can't Compete
  • France's Solar Bubble Pops
  • Is Energy Independence Realistic?
  • Will Green Energy Make the United States Less Secure?
• Texas Public Policy Foundation
  • Texas' Renewable Energy Experiment: High Costs, Poor Results by Bill Peacock
  • Texas Energy and the Energy of Texas by Steven F. Hayward, Kenneth P. Green
• Reason Foundation
  • The Unseen Consequences of "Green Jobs" by Ronald Bailey

• Rio Grande Foundation
  • The Economic Impact of New Mexico's Renewable Portfolio Standard by David G. Tuerck. Paul Bachman, Michael Head
• Van Ness Feldman
  • FERC Requests Comments on Frequency Response Metrics, Variable Renewable Generation Study by Gary Bachman, Jay Ryan
  • D.C. Circuit Court Denies Hoopa Valley Tribe's Petition for Review of FERC Order Denying Interim Conditions at Klamath Hydroelectric Project by Mike Swiger, Sharon White
  • D.C. Circuit Affirms FERC Order Authorizing Rockies Express to Commence Construction Over Coal Properties by Curt Moffatt, Bob Christin, Amy Beizer, Shippen Howe
  • White House Voices Support for Clean Energy Standard by Kyle Danish, Tomás Carbonell
• Washington Policy Center
  • Nuclear Energy Must Be Part of the State's Energy Strategy: An Energy Strategy Relying on Efficiency and Renewable Energy Will Not Meet Growing Demand By Brandon Houskeeper
  • Washington's Renewable Fuel Mandate Would Harm Environment and Air Quality by Todd Myers

Environment

• American Enterprise Institute
  • Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? by Jon Entine
• Cascade Policy Institute
  • Plastic Bags: It's Time to Get Beyond "Ban, Ban, Ban" By Todd Wynn
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Podcast: DC's Plastic Bag Tax
  • Politicized Science: The ‘Erin Brockovich Chemical' By Angela Logomasini
• Heartland Institute
  • Canadian Butterflies Expand Range as Climate Warms by Craig Idso
  • Childrens Book Counters Environmental Propaganda by Jay Lehr
  • Tropical Cyclone Activity Reaches New Low by James Taylor
• Hoover Institution
  • A Market Solution for Our Water Wars by Terry Anderson, Gary D. Libecap
  • The Rush to Condemn Genetically Modified Crops by Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• The Independent Institute
  • Congress Should Rein in EPA by William F. Shughart II
• National Center for Policy Analysis
  • The Blue Food Revolution
  • The Unintended Consequences of Environmentalism
• The Property and Environment Research Center
  • PERC Reports, Winter 2011
• Washington Policy Center
  • 2011 - A Fresh Start for the Environment by Todd Myers and Brandon Houskeeper

Links of Interest

• www.sepp.org
• www.wattsupwiththat.com
• www.petitionproject.org 
• http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/ 
• www.icecap.us  
• www.climatechangefraud.com   
• www.junkscience.com
• www.co2science.org  
• www.globalwarming.org
• www.friendsofscience.org
• www.climateaudit.org
• www.iceagenow.com
• www.demanddebate.com
• http://ilovecarbondioxide.com/
• www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org
• www.sustainableoregon.com 
• www.cfact.org
• www.climatedepot.com
• www.surfacestations.org
• www.globalwarminghoax.com
• www.algorelied.com
• www.worldclimatereport.com
• www.noteviljustwrong.com
• www.plantsneedco2.org
• www.nocapandtrade.com
• www.climatechains.com
• www.globalclimatescam.com 
• www.carbon-sense.com
• www.isthereglobalcooling.com

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