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SALEM — Republicans in the Oregon Senate have fled the Capitol to stop Democrats’ bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions after the plan cleared a legislative budget committee Monday morning.

Are the Climate Commies going to start having their way in Washington? The Most Perfect President Ever isn't just hoping that's the case, he's banking on it. The Cap and Traders are on the march now and Team Lightbringer is counting on the scheme for significant revenue. Around $30 billion a year for ten years beginning in 2012. The budget's assumption of money from a revenue stream that does not yet exist provides a concrete indication that Mr. Obama expects a cap-and-trade system to be in place soon although Congress still must shape, write, debate and decide on a timetable...

During the summers of my college years in the mid-1960s, I worked at a local factory in Milwaukee. I won't name the place out of respect for those who surely suffered because of its abysmal working conditions. As an 18-year-old, did I know that peering through the fumes of a steaming vat of carbon tetrachloride to see if the freshly welded apparatus was "cooked" enough was dangerous? Or that working next to a drop forge that constantly slammed into thick plates of steel could eventually blow out your eardrums? It wasn't until 1970, when Congress finally passed the Occupational Safety...

As electric utilities look at new power plants for the next 30 years, overwhelmingly they are plowing money into burning pulverized coal — cheap, abundant domestically and full of carbon dioxide. Some of the 132 new coal-fired plants proposed for the United States will not be built, but federal energy analysts are predicting the new plants will boost greenhouse-gas emissions for the electric industry 43 percent by 2030. Ceres, a coalition of environmentally minded investors and environmental groups, reported Wednesday at its meeting in Oakland that those releases account for nearly all growth in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions for the next...

WASHINGTON – Over 1 million jobs would be lost over the next fifteen years under the proposed McCain-Lieberman carbon cap proposal according to a study sponsored by United for Jobs and the American Council for Capital Formation that was released today. The new study assessed the economic cost of the updated language in the McCain-Lieberman legislation and showed that 1,306,000 jobs would be lost by 2020 under the McCain-Lieberman emission cap proposal. Among the key findings of the study: • $810 annual costs to households once fully implemented; • Gasoline increases of up to 55 cents per gallon; • 20%...