CEI Study Challenges EPA Claim to Deliver $30 in Benefits for Every Dollar of Cost

Do EPA’s Clean Air Act (CAA) rules produce more than $30 in benefits for every dollar of cost? That’s what the agency claims in a report published earlier this month:

1876 : Three Storms In Succession Flood 3,000 Square Miles Of India – Kill 215,000 People | Real Science

Inconvenient truths about energy policy | Climate Etc.

My main issue with CCS is that I do not view it as a robust policy option. If greenhouse warming is less of an issue than currently envisioned, the expenses of implementing CCS will be sunk, with little or no benefit.

San Francisco mayor calls for city to go 100% renewable by 2020 | Grist

Where could you get 797 people to stand in line outside a nightclub to attend a $100-a-ticket fundraiser for a nonprofit that advocates for solar energy? Not-so-sunny San Francisco, of course.

The queue to get into the Vote Solar Initiative annual spring equinox bash snaked down the street Monday, and even the sun made an appearance during a break in the deluge that has been soaking the Bay Area for the past week.
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"We've got to make sure this city is on 100 percent renewable energy," San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee told the crowd. Folks in attendance were decked out in cowboy hats, to commemorate the defeat last year of Proposition 23 -- the ballot measure backed by Texas oil companies that would have derailed California's landmark global warming law.