How the Global Warming Bill Will Affect Your Wallet - US News and World Report

How much will the Waxman-Markey bill cost the average American?

GOP Energy Plan: Nuclear Plants and Global Warming Denial | ChattahBox News Blog

(ChattahBox)—If the Republicans had their way, they would recreate our majestic American landscape into a grim terrain clogged with smog and pollution, scores of nuclear power plants and our natural environment defaced with strip mining, oil-shale drilling operations, “clean-coal” plants and oil refineries.

Think of the bleak post-apocalyptic version of the world depicted in the cult film classic, “Mad Max” and you get the idea.

House GOP: Let's Pretend We Care About Climate Change - The Plank

Sounds great! But, as Brad Plumer points out, the GOP energy bill specifically proclaims, "Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming." It's not surprising they think this, because the key drafters of the bill are climate change skeptics. Obviously, the Republicans aren't willing to impose higher prices on CO2 emissions because they don't think CO2 emissions are a problem. But they're pretending that they just have a magical free way to solve the problem rather than admit they don't really think it's a problem at all.