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Stewardship Notes
- What Will Cap-and-Trade Cost People in Your Congressional District?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (July 8, 2009)
The Heritage Foundation released a report on June 25 that shows the costs of H.R. 2998, the so-called “American Clean Energy and Security Act,” on a district-by-district basis. What will it cost people in your district? The report gives aggregate figures, but you can calculate the cost per capita...
- Scientists Duel with Letters on Global Warming
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (July 1, 2009)
On June 19, the Woods Hole Research Center released an open letter from scientists to the President and members of Congress calling for “strong leadership” to avert “a rapidly developing global climatic catastrophe.” The letter called for passage of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill then pending...
- Did EPA Muzzle Analyst’s Report?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 30, 2009)
Last March Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analyst Alan Carlin submitted a report that challenged the EPA’s intent to regulate carbon dioxide to reduce global warming. The 98-page report called the science underlying the EPA’s intents outdated and cited multiple refereed scientific and...
- Cal Beisner Discusses Cap-and-Trade Bill on Richard Land Live Radio Broadcast
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 27, 2009)
Radio talk show hosts run the gamut from the hyper-focused to the hyper-diffuse, but Richard Land takes the cake for one who connects all the dots from world view to doctrine to church history to economics to environment to tiny details of specific legislation. Our discussion on “Richard Land Live”...
- CBO’s Smoke and Mirrors with Cap-and-Trade Cost Numbers
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 23, 2009)
The Heritage Foundation estimated a month ago that cap-and-trade legislation making its way through the House of Representatives would cost the average American household about $1,500 a year in higher energy bills and the American economy about $9.6 trillion in lost gross domestic product between...
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