]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/government-policy Blog Articles Tagged with 'government-policy' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154288?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy The Financial Times' lead editorial today argues for prices over command-and-control (duh!) and then goes on to say a tax would be better than a cap (d'oh!). Where to begin?Well, first, let me once again point anyone interested to an ongoing debate ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154288?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:31:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154292?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Ban Ki-Moon comments on the importance of global climate action in the current edition of Newsweek:This [current] impasse is a prescription for disaster. To break it means accepting two realities. First: the world is waiting for the United States to ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154292?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:40:54 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154293?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy On Monday, I will have more on green jobs and green stimulus (the reason for the delay will be clear after I post on Monday), so for now, I'll tease you with this from Business Week:When it comes to signing off on green projects, Obama's team won't b... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154293?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:57:36 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154295?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy January 20, 2006, John wrote:OK, I'm starting to get it. We should raise the gas tax to $1/gal but, if we can tax mileage, that would be better (in terms of efficiency). I dig it (that's 70s cool talk for our youngish readers)! But I'm not getting ov... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154295?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:38:27 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154296?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy I left a comment on a green jobs post the day after pagan celebration of a Christian holy day:That is why economics is known as the dismal science. We strange economists are most adept at recognizing the opportunity costs of various decisions. No one... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/154296?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:13:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153657?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy The most-emailed NYT article for two days running has not been another explanation of the shaky housing market (that's #2), but rather a front-page story on solidly built passive houses :Using ultrathick insulation and complex doors and windows, th... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153657?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:34:01 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153658?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Tim's latest post chronicles Tom Friedman's entry into the gas tax column watch: Win, Win, Win, Win, Win .... Today's New York Times also features another, perhaps slightly more surprising, op-ed:Supply-side godfather Arthur Laffer is throwing his h... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153658?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:19:31 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153659?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Sometimes I really want to hug the guy (Win, Win, Win, Win, Win ...):That is why I believe the second biggest decision Barack Obama has to make the first is deciding the size of the stimulus is whether to increase the federal gasoline tax or ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153659?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:38:26 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153660?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy The NYTimes editorial page asks the if we build it, will they come? question and answeres no :Yet for all the conditions attached to it, the multibillion-dollar aid package for Detroit's carmakers approved by the White House (with Mr. Obama's supp... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153660?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:36:45 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153669?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy From the inbox:I wanted to pass along a quirky letter to the editor that I saw today on the Concord Monitor's website. It was written by a 13-year old, Madeleine Stewart, and is one of those incisive notes that only someone with all the knowledge o... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153669?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:53:21 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152944?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Tomorrow's FT has an analysis of the recent oil price drop that's spot-on. The first sentence already says it all:The plunging oil price is like a dangerously addictive painkiller: short-term relief is being provided at a cost of serious long-term ha... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152944?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:17:28 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/153399?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy The Environmental Protection Agency ruled that new power plants are not required to install technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejecting an argument from environmental groups. The ruling turns on a seemingly arcane regulatory question t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/153399?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:56:08 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152947?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy From Forbes (For Job Market, Green Means Growth):The greening of industry is creating a constellation of new careers, and they're not your everyday forestry professions. Many of them are environmental twists on old professions, like law, or in Makowe... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152947?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152954?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy I've intentionally laid low in the brewhaha over green jobs--mainly because John is far more diplomatic than I am and has handled himself admirably (not that he needs my support). But Mark Thoma's post raises some questions that I don't know the an... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152954?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:33:52 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152955?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Big oil companies seem to be canceling investments left and right because of falling oil prices. Oil prices fell from their mid-summer high of $145 to below $45 this week, and some investors speculate that the looming recession will cause them to hit... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152955?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:29:30 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152958?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Since this post is not by either John or Tim, I'll put it in blockquotes to avoid confusion (also posted at Economist's View). It discusses the claim that green jobs are bogus : Depression Economics: Normal Rules Don't Apply: Paul Krugman is trying ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152958?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152962?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy From the comments section (#88 out of 89):Now that we have dispatched with the nonsense of Green-jobs-are-bogus. ...Huh? Who has dispacted with that? Environmental policy can change the mix of jobs but not the overall number of jobs. An economy CAN b... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152962?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:56:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/152713?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy President-elect Obama has chosen Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be the next energy secretary. He should have picked a street-fighter instead. Chu is making enormous contributions t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/152713?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:38:09 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152199?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Economists are notorious in their opposition to subsidized industry unless the market, left to its own dang self, generates a market failure, such as positive externalities. That is why statements such as this ...Mr. Obama has promised to ... support... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152199?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:19:12 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152201?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Looks like the U.S. auto bailout debate is going to come down to whether automakers will be held to state or federal fuel efficiency standards as a condition of the bridge loans. Dems want the tighter state standards while the Repubs want the looser... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152201?rsstype=tag&tag=government-policy Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:28:23 -0500