Australia’s Carbon Policy: Just Do Something
At this time last year, the Australian government began collecting the world’s most expensive carbon tax. A year later, it seems unanimous among Australia’s two… Read More
Carbon Tax: Still a Bad Idea
An anti-carbon tax amendment will likely be considered as the Senate attempts to pass its first budget in four years. While it has been made… Read More
The Right Time for a Carbon Tax Is Never
Once the electorate was made to realize that cap-and-trade bills (Lieberman-Warner, Waxman-Markey, etc.) were actually taxes on fossil energy, cap and trade became political poison…. Read More
Claim Check Needs to Do Fact Checks
Claim Check, which supposedly fact checks public statements, employs the different-must-be-wrong-theory in dismissing a Heritage analysis because it is an “outlier.” It seems that many… Read More
Window Dressing Cap and Trade Won’t Make the Costs Go Away
Last year Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) rolled out a companion cap and trade bill to the Waxman-Markey version that passed in… Read More
Senator Lieberman’s Honest Quote on Cap and Trade
Senators Lieberman, Graham, and Kerry have come forward with a bold, new proposal on global warming… or not. Here is Senator Lieberman’s description of the… Read More
EPA Lawyers Speak Out Against Cap and Trade
Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two lawyers currently working at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), spoke out against cap and trade in their Washington Post… Read More
The Cap and Trade Boycott Continues
For the second day, Republican Senators boycotted the scheduled markup of the Kerry-Boxer (S.1733) cap-and-trade bill. Senator Inhofe (R-OK) appeared briefly to emphasize that the… Read More
The Verdict’s In: Cap and Trade Will Not Work
Over the summer The Washington Post called Europe’s experience with cap and trade as “Exhibit A” of what not to do on climate. Yesterday, the… Read More
Today’s Calamity: Senate Concerns on Cap and Trade Cannot Be Fixed
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus made headlines this week for something other than healthcare. On October 27 Senator Baucus said he has “serious reservations” about… Read More
EPA’s Economic Analysis of the Boxer-Kerry Cap and Trade Bill
“Second verse same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse.” This is the basic theme of the EPA’s analysis of… Read More
Global Warming Roulette
Spin the wheel and whatever number the ball lands on will be the new tipping point we must get below; if not, catastrophic global warming… Read More
Morning Bell: The Transparent Costs of Cap and Trade
On June 26th of this year, the House of Representatives narrowly passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. More commonly known as… Read More
Good and Bad in President Obama’s Global Warming Speech at MIT
President Obama traveled to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today to deliver a speech on climate change. Part of the speech focused on innovation and… Read More
Today’s Calamity: A Second Call for Transparency
Our Tuesday rendition of Cap and Trade Calamities discussed how only the EPA was given the semi-draft form of the Boxer-Kerry cap and trade bill… Read More
LIVE POLITICO Webchat With Heritage’s David Kreutzer
Heritage’s David W. Kreutzer: Waxman-Markey
Today’s Calamity: A Call for Transparency
As you read this, the Environmental Protection Agency is modeling the economic impacts of a semi-draft form of the Boxer-Kerry cap and trade legislation. “Environment… Read More
When Environmental Activism Does More Harm Than Good
Last night Heritage hosted the world premiere of “Not Evil Just Wrong,” a feature-length documentary that reveals the true cost of global warming hysteria and… Read More
Public Still Not Sure What Cap and Trade Is, but They Will If It Passes
Maybe John Kerry and President Obama and proponents of a cap and trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions still have time to change message…. Read More
CBO Director: There are Costs Involved with Cap and Trade
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf testified on October 14 before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to discuss the economic effects of… Read More
Not Everyone Won the Cap and Trade Lobbying Battle
The cap and trade bill introduced by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) and passed in the is 1,427 pages and includes much more… Read More
Boxer-Kerry Unveil Their Energy Tax Bill: Incomplete But Still Very Harmful
Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced the Senate companion to the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation today and while many pieces are missing,… Read More
In the Wake of Cap and Trade, We Can Learn Something from Wyoming
President Obama’s speech to the UN on climate change last Tuesday points to an interesting and fairly recent shift in the left’s environmentalist philosophy: the… Read More
Green Tea Party: Sat., 1-4 p.m.
For those of you in or near the Washington area, Truth About Green will host the first-ever Green Tea Party tomorrow, Sept. 26, from 1… Read More
Today’s Calamity: Cap and Trade Destroys Jobs and Destroys Wealth
When it comes to cap and trade, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu says it’s an economic stimulus. President Obama says it’s a jobs bill. Is… Read More
Since Americans are Teenagers, They Won’t Understand Greenhouse Gases
The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their… Read More
Today’s Calamity: Do We Want a Carbon Footprint Label on Everything We Buy?
If cap and trade passes, businesses could soon face “The Scarlet Letter” treatment. Businesses may have to include a carbon label on their products that… Read More
Treasury Admits Cap and Trade is a Massive Tax
Thanks to the relentless work of Christopher Horner at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, U.S. Department of Treasury admitted cap and trade would be a tax… Read More
Today’s Calamity: First Cash for Clunkers, Now Cash for Homes?
Despite being extremely wasteful and creating questionable environmental benefits, the government labeled the cash for clunkers auto program a successful program that exceeded expectations. It… Read More
Today’s Calamity: Micromanaging Tree Planting
Not many people enjoy a micromanager – having their boss hover over them monitoring their every move. Well, if Congress passes a cap and trade… Read More
