Henry Waxman's Climate [Scam] Bill Imposes Environmental Regulations on the Entire Economy - WSJ.com

Henry Waxman Has a Plan… for your living room, showerhead, jacuzzi…
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On that score, as early as next week the EPA will classify carbon as a dangerous pollutant under current clear-air laws, prompting a separate avalanche of new regulations. Mr. Waxman must be jealous, considering that the EPA staff wants to regulate -- among literally everything that produces CO2 -- "lawn and garden equipment" and "enteric fermentation" in livestock, otherwise known as flatulence.

The Obama Administration claims it is flirting with this "endangerment finding" and the economic havoc it would wreak only to force Congress into falling in line with its climate agenda. But if Democrats ever do get around to passing an anticarbon bill, Waxman-Markey is the going favorite, and so Americans should begin to understand the micromanagement over their daily lives that Congress has in store. All you have to do is read Mr. Waxman's plan.

Breaking: Alarmists not unified!

Tom Friedman has been doing great work on green issues for a while now, certainly given them a higher profile than any mere green blogger could. So I guess he’s owed some latitude. But his recent column is just an outright nuclear disaster: head-slappingly wrong on the merits, politically naive and tone deaf, and timed so poorly as to be malicious. Just about every single sentence is a train wreck.

Beware utilities seeking free pollution permits | Grist

What’s most disturbing about the utilities’ campaign isn’t that they’re waging it—that’s what you’d expect them to do—but that the opposition has been so feeble. Barack Obama during the presidential campaign came out for auctioning 100% of pollution permits, and recently his budget director, Peter Orszag, declared, “If you don’t auction the permits it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States.” Obama’s budget calls for auctioning 100% of permits and returning most of the revenue to consumers through tax credits. But now the White House seems to be waffling on auctions, and the silence on Capitol Hill has been stunning.

So we may be heading for yet another giveaway of public wealth to private corporations—first banks, then auto companies, now utilities. The irony is that utilities aren’t failing and won’t be hurt by a carbon cap with auctions—they’ll surely pass permit costs through to customers. What we’re seeing here is simply a well-organized interest group trying to draw cash from the public till, and almost no one in Washington minding the store.

State Proposals to Raise Gas Taxes Sputter - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

One by one, the state-level proposals to boost the gas tax — which I wrote about in January — are, well, running out of gas.