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All of the Above, But What Matters Above All
The Democrats recently announced they plan to bring the energy debate back to their corner when they return from recess next week. They, too, will embrace an "All of the Above" energy policy as the solution to Americans' concerns about the economy and energy prices. But will their new strategy focus on what truly matters when it comes to effective energy policy in 2008?
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David Wheeler Gets It (Half) Right On Lieberman Warner
David Wheeler at the Center for Global Development published an econometric analysis of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act's failure in Congress just a few months ago. The report, entitled, "Why Lieberman-Warner Failed," underestimates the uphill political struggle market-based carbon-regulation legislation will continue to face. In other words, brand new analysis, same old thinking.
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A National Innovation Deficit
The Sunday Times profiled Judy Estrin, a Silicon Valley veteran who has spent her entire career working in technology and innovation. Her new book, "Closing the Innovation Gap," identifies the root causes of our slipping grip on the innovation edge. Her findings are much in line with Breakthrough's: we're in a rut because of neglecting education and failing to provide sufficient funding for research. The lack of government support is creating a gap too big for private industry to fill on its own.
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Shellenberger & Nordhaus Break Through to Conservatives
Four years ago Breakthrough's founders argued in "The Death of Environmentalism" that greens didn't need to win the debate over the relative seriousness of global warming in order to enact policies capable of dealing with it. At the time, that claim was viewed as paradoxical and even heretical, but the debate at CATO Unbound provides further evidence for their claim.
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The Energy Battle: the Biggest Political Debate of the New Century
With Americans looking to Congress for releif as prices spike at the pump, the future of American energy policy has quickly become the biggest political battle of the new century. Breakthrough Institute dives into debate...
- Jeff Navin, political consultant and former Research Director for Sen. Tom Daschle, gives us the inside story on how today's battle over energy may influence tomorrow's debate on global warming.
- Breakthrough Institute President Michael Shellenberger points to why the environmental argument against drilling --
"that prices won't come down for a long time" -- doesn't work.
- Breakthrough policy analyst Jesse Jenkins delves into why Democrats are losing the energy battle and what it will take to pull off a win.
- Jesse Jenkins & Adam Zemel: "Drilling on America's Land, Drilling on America's Terms"
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All of the Above and What Matters Above All
The Democrats recently announced they plan to bring the energy debate back to their corner when they return from recess next week. They, too, will embrace an "All of the Above" strategy. But is it focused on what truly matters when it comes to energy policy in 2008?
09.04.08 | 11:52 PM
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