cap and trade

Michael malice, author of the new book “The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics,” joins host Donald Kendal and Producer Extraordinaire Andy Singer in episode #197 of the In The Tank Podcast.

In a small victory (for sanity) in the ongoing climate wars, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem) admitted defeat in his and Gov. Kate Brown’s attempt to force unwilling Republicans to vote on a controversial cap-and-trade bill.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #107 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Caesar Rodney Institute, and the Fordham Institute.

Some on the political right are floating a new “supply-side” idea for reducing carbon dioxide emissions without creating more market distortions: clean tax cuts. Proponents of the cuts want to reduce or end all taxes on investments in technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In a recent appearance before a congressional committee, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told them that the agency’s proposed sweeping carbon-regulation plan was “really an investment opportunity. This is not about pollution control.” If the plan isn’t about pollution, the primary reason for the EPA’s existence, why bother with yet more regulation of something that is not a pollutant—carbon dioxide—despite the Supreme Court’s idiotic decision that it is. Yes, even the Court gets things wrong.

America is poised to become the “no pee” section of the global swimming pool and the useless actions will cost us a bundle—raising energy costs, adding new taxes, and crippling the economy. Even some environmentalists agree. Yet, for President Obama, it’s all about legacy.

Here at The Heartland Institute, we looked under the hood at the science touted by the other side and found it to be utterly unpersuasive.

While the president regularly demonizes CO2 and “Big Oil” with his lips, his actions have directed something entirely different.

Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate, is on the wane. Once riding high, the ideology of man-made climate change is losing its influence in governments…

General Electric Co.’s decision to cut off financing for a few dozen gun retailers will impose “an insignificant and immaterial” effect on  GE’s balance sheet, but the gun gambit provides this…

President Obama is not the “warrior for the middle class” he campaigned as, but he’s most concerned about creating wealth for his “green cronies.”

Campaigning in San Francisco during the Democrat Party primaries in January 2008, Presidential Candidate Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board, “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered…

. Global warming alarmist Andy Dessler, a professor at Texas A&M University, was caught misrepresenting U.S. carbon dioxide data during a November 9 Public Radio International debate on “To the…