Environment
Agriculture
The Libertarian Perspective On California Water
Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California’s vast water supplies to its growing water demands. In practice, this means ending the subsidies that make water for agriculture cost ten times less than ...
Environment
Get Off the Lawn
A lush green lawn has a certain aesthetic appeal, there’s no denying that. If lawn was counted as a crop, however, it would be one of the nation’s biggest, but it is far from a critical need as far as water use. Yet, watering lawns accounts for nearly 40 percent ...
Agriculture
Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable. Tim Alderson, 47, of Pasadena, has been appointed to the Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program ...
Business & Economics
U.S. can’t afford Obama’s plans or the taxes that go with them
The pork-laden “stimulus” bill that President Obama recently signed contained more than $100 billion in new government health-care spending. If the president and his congressional allies have their way, though, that’s just the beginning of a vast expansion of government funded health care. Two recent studies from the nonpartisan Congressional ...
Climate Change
CA Nightmare: Worsening State’s Fiscal Crisis Through Bad Climate Policy
I have spent my entire 35 year professional life developing and implementing energy policies vital to our state. So it pains me to now see California taking an unfortunate misstep: embracing participation in the Western Climate Initiative. WCI, developed by seven U.S. states (California is joined by Oregon, Washington, Utah, ...
Climate Change
Californians Ascend to National Power
As the Barack Obama administration takes the reins on energy policy, Californians such as Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab Director Steven Chu, ascending to Department of Energy secretary, and Rep. Henry Waxman, becoming chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, are set to have great influence at the national level. The ...
Environment
Cost of Gasoline to Rise?
According to the report, in recent months corn ethanol producers have faced a number of financial setbacks, including at least one highly visible bankruptcy. Although greater use of ethanol is mandated by federal law, the industry is suffering from over capacity, and struggling to compete in an environment of falling ...
Environment
Really Such A Bright Idea?
Let’s talk CFL, or compact flourescent lights. As I pointed out in the 2007 Lights On survey of California energy policy, and in testimony in 2007 to the Georgia Public Service Commission, DSM rose to regulatory prominence during the 1980s,…everybody was open to other approaches to meet future energy demand. ...
Business & Economics
How ‘Green’ Are You?
President Obama, who wants to emphasize science, has chosen Carol Browner for his “Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change,” a new post being dubbed the “Climate Czar.” Browner’s recent career will be of interest to Americans struggling with a weak economy and cold weather. Browner is not ...
Climate Change
A New Day for Science?
In his inaugural address, new President Barack Obama said he intended to “restore science to its rightful place” in government. Several days later, Obama again claimed a change in approach, saying, “Rigid ideology has overruled sound science. Special interests have overshadowed common sense. Rhetoric has not led to the hard ...
The Libertarian Perspective On California Water
Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California’s vast water supplies to its growing water demands. In practice, this means ending the subsidies that make water for agriculture cost ten times less than ...
Get Off the Lawn
A lush green lawn has a certain aesthetic appeal, there’s no denying that. If lawn was counted as a crop, however, it would be one of the nation’s biggest, but it is far from a critical need as far as water use. Yet, watering lawns accounts for nearly 40 percent ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable. Tim Alderson, 47, of Pasadena, has been appointed to the Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program ...
U.S. can’t afford Obama’s plans or the taxes that go with them
The pork-laden “stimulus” bill that President Obama recently signed contained more than $100 billion in new government health-care spending. If the president and his congressional allies have their way, though, that’s just the beginning of a vast expansion of government funded health care. Two recent studies from the nonpartisan Congressional ...
CA Nightmare: Worsening State’s Fiscal Crisis Through Bad Climate Policy
I have spent my entire 35 year professional life developing and implementing energy policies vital to our state. So it pains me to now see California taking an unfortunate misstep: embracing participation in the Western Climate Initiative. WCI, developed by seven U.S. states (California is joined by Oregon, Washington, Utah, ...
Californians Ascend to National Power
As the Barack Obama administration takes the reins on energy policy, Californians such as Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab Director Steven Chu, ascending to Department of Energy secretary, and Rep. Henry Waxman, becoming chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, are set to have great influence at the national level. The ...
Cost of Gasoline to Rise?
According to the report, in recent months corn ethanol producers have faced a number of financial setbacks, including at least one highly visible bankruptcy. Although greater use of ethanol is mandated by federal law, the industry is suffering from over capacity, and struggling to compete in an environment of falling ...
Really Such A Bright Idea?
Let’s talk CFL, or compact flourescent lights. As I pointed out in the 2007 Lights On survey of California energy policy, and in testimony in 2007 to the Georgia Public Service Commission, DSM rose to regulatory prominence during the 1980s,…everybody was open to other approaches to meet future energy demand. ...
How ‘Green’ Are You?
President Obama, who wants to emphasize science, has chosen Carol Browner for his “Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change,” a new post being dubbed the “Climate Czar.” Browner’s recent career will be of interest to Americans struggling with a weak economy and cold weather. Browner is not ...
A New Day for Science?
In his inaugural address, new President Barack Obama said he intended to “restore science to its rightful place” in government. Several days later, Obama again claimed a change in approach, saying, “Rigid ideology has overruled sound science. Special interests have overshadowed common sense. Rhetoric has not led to the hard ...
