Despite a lack of evidence to support their assertions, EPA continues to insist that mercury emissions from US power plants pose a significant risk. This line of thinking poses great harm to the affordability of electricity....
"The EPA used heavy-handed tactics with states, flawed models and showed a disregard for costs in developing a new Bay cleanup plan, members of Congress and the agricultural community charged at a recent hearing," claims the Chesapeake Bay Journal in the April, 2011, edition....
The discussion over possible tolling of the Interstates has everyone singing the same song: “New capacity yes -- existing capacity no.” But that position ignores by far the most important role that tolling could play in America’s highway infrastructure: reconstructing worn-out Interstates....
Taken together, everything EPA is doing to tax and penalize coal use will result in huge increases in electricity prices that will hammer family budgets, especially in minority communities, impair nutrition and health and make it harder for many to heat, cool and pay for their homes....
Fiscal crises inevitably yield difficult choices for policymakers as they seek ways to cut spending. Adopting a Budgeting for Outcomes approach would be a major step for Virginia’s state and local governments towards bringing accountability and fiscal sustainability to budgeting....
Why would an environmental law center put wind on trial? And what does a court case challenging Colorado’s renewable energy mandates have to do with Virginia? The answer: Wind is not affordable and it is not clean.
While private-sector unions fight with management over an equitable distribution of profits, Government unions negotiate with friendly politicians over taxpayer’s money putting the public interest at odds with union interests...
