How do you create an energy policy that combines concern about energy needs with concerns over climate change? This paper, presented to the Virginia House of Delegates, provides a policy framework for evaluating energy and climate related proposals, and suggests various programs and projects that combine into a climate-friendly energy...
“Virginians should be fed up with a transportation debate that focuses only on more taxes and not on reforming a system that isn’t working well in the 21st Century,” says Jefferson Institute President Michael W. Thompson. Here are thirteen ideas for genuine reform that wold address development, efficiency, and congestion...
How do you create an energy policy that combines concern about energy needs with concerns over climate change? This paper, presented to the Virginia House of Delegates, provides a policy framework for evaluating energy and climate related proposals, and suggests various programs and projects that combine into a climate-friendly energy...
Fixing transportation funding isn’t as difficult as Governor Tim Kaine is making it out to be: Just empower local governments, who complain loudest about traffic, to enact the taxes that will fund transportation improvements.
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Isn’t it time we got more mileage out of transportation spending? Here’s how to do it.
... Why is Virginia’s climate change goal neither practically achievable or necessary in order to prevent catastrophic climate effects? The Jefferson Institute’s Center for Environmental Stewardship has the answer. This presentation before Governor Tim Kaine’s Climate Change Commission explains how geoengineering techniques can prevent the effects of climate change and provide...
There are tried and true agricultural practices that could help restore the Chesapeake Bay’s health. They’re less expensive than government “command and control” solutions, too.
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Voters have an opportunity this year to put federal candidates on notice that its time to place politics aside and fund a reading program that is making a dramatic difference in the lives of millions of at-risk children. Here’s what you can do …
... Only in government can spending increase nearly seven percent even while legislators declare a money “shortfall.” But “shortfall” is what happens when government plans to spend way more money than in the previous budget, and the revenues don’t flow in as optimistically anticipated. Virginia lawmakers are avoiding the hard decision...
