Senate Progress on the Energy Bill

http://communities.thomsonreuters.com/Carbon/410436

America and Small Business

WASHINGTON – August 3 – Contrary to popular perceptions, the United States has a much smaller small-business sector (as a share of total employment) than other countries at a comparable level of economic development, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) . The CEPR researchers observe that the [...]

The Energy Bill and Environmentalist

The New York Times reports on concerns among some environmentalist on Obama’s committment to climate action.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/us/politics/11protest.html?_r=1&ref=earth

USDA Budget

63% of the USDA budget goes to nutrition programs.

Help in Understanding Cap and Trade in the Energy Bill

http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/10/robert_stavins_interview/

The Agriculture Lobby

It is not unusual for me to read journalistic articles and come away wondering ‘who the h…. are they talking about’. I’ve attached one of those articles from The Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504133.html?sub=AR
I also read some polling this morning that says 75 percent of the American public thinks we need to act on climate change legislation and over [...]

Geography, Ecology, and Economy

A valuable article by Peter Ziehan titled The Geography of Recession.
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090602_geography_recession

Exacting Change

An interesting article on the “Politics” of change.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090615/borosage_kvh

Bound to Burn

An interesting article by Peter Huber of the Manhattan Institute on carbon, the developing world, and land use change.
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_carbon.html

American Clean Energy and Security Act

Statement of Lisa P. Jackson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Hearing on American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
(Washington, D.C. – April 22, 2009) Chairman Waxman, Chairman-Emeritus Dingell, Ranking Minority Member Barton, and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify about the draft American Clean [...]