Republicans will achieve net gains of 60 seats in the U.S. House, eight seats in the U.S. Senate, seven governorships, and 12 to 15 legislative chambers.
RALEIGH — David Tuerck, chairman of the economics department at Boston’s Suffolk University and executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute, oversaw a study that finds North Carolina leaders are considering climate-related policies that could cost the state 33,000 jobs, $502.4 million in annual investment, $2.2 billion in real disposable income, and $4.5 billion in real state Gross Domestic Product by 2011. He discussed the economics of climate change policy with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
If the EPA’s assumption about the rebirth of nuclear power turns out to be wrong, then the cost of cap-and-trade will be worse than its current estimates suggest.
RALEIGH — A nonprofit environmental advocacy group, which staunchly believes global warming must be reduced through reductions in human-caused carbon dioxide emissions, controls another nonprofit organization that advises a climate action panel started by the N.C. Division of Air Quality. The DAQ-created group, in turn, makes recommendations on carbon-dioxide reductions to the Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change.
Duke University has created a new “unbiased” institute on environmental policy run by a former staff member to a Democratic senator, affiliated with a well-known environmental activist, and endorsed by left-wing groups.
It's time to stop griping about global warming and start celebrating instead. Maybe. Even though the U.S. did not ultimately back the 34-nation Kyoto Agreement that took effect on February 15th, domestic global warming legislation, in the form of the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, claims it will be a major engine (if you'll pardon the pun) of new jobs in the U.S.
Speculation is running high that North Carolina's own Sen. John Edwards will be John Kerry's Veep. The choice has much to commend it, from the Democratic point of view.
Some believe that John Edwards is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for vice president, and that the announcement might come soon.
Presidential aspirant John Kerry stands one way on an issue, then turns around and stands the opposite way.
Bill Clinton has been both credited and maligned for changing the national Democratic Party. Well, the changes didn't stick, anyway.
Just since Tuesday night's New Hampshire returns, the Democratic presidential candidates have shifted their sights -- in ways that should clarify matters.
