Green jobs: Billions for something we’ll define later
The Obama administration isn’t quite sure what a “green job” is, but it sure wants more of them! From the Washington Examiner’s Byron York: Buried deep inside a federal newsletter on March 16 was...
View ArticleObama tries to (cap and) trade on the oil spill
After eight weeks, President Obama has decided he needs to stop letting our crisis in the Gulf of Mexico go unexploited. In an Oval Office address tonight, he’ll explain why, as he recently told...
View ArticleAbout China’s alleged green leap forward
Comparisons of China’s commitment to the environment and “clean tech” to our own are popular these days, including in the comments threads on this blog. Shikha Dalmia, fresh off a trip there, offers...
View ArticleEnergy policy on the ObamaCare model
President Obama has decided that the Gulf oil spill means we need to change the way we power our entire country, not just the way we regualte offshore drilling. Politico reports today that the next...
View ArticleGuess what? Yours truly has a ‘green job’
Let’s see: I was hired by the AJC a few months after the stimulus was signed into law, and I’m a journalist. According to the Obama administration, that means I have a “green job”! Back in June, I...
View ArticleAnd you thought Al Gore was living un-greenly large (video)
A helicopter? A Humvee firetruck? I didn’t even know they made those. But I won’t spoil the ending (from the folks at Not Evil Just Wrong) …
View ArticleOn Ted’s Montana-size carbon footprint . . . and mouth
Ed Driscoll has a nice, succinct take-down of Ted Turner’s recent rants about everyone adopting a one-child policy in light of our “life and death” fight against climate change: If it’s life and death,...
View ArticleElections have consequences, EPA edition
From the New York Times: The Obama administration is retreating on long-delayed environmental regulations — new rules governing smog and toxic emissions from industrial boilers — as it adjusts to a...
View ArticleGlobal warming science changes, to some scientists’ chagrin
A couple of months ago, when there was snowfall on 49 of our 50 states, global warmists rushed to explain. More snow, it turns out, is a sign of a hotter planet. But that’s not what they’ve always...
View ArticleA betting opportunity on human adaptability
The fierce tornadoes that killed hundreds of Americans during the past month have prompted some environmentalists, including Bill McKibben in a recent Washington Post op-ed, to declare that these...
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