1. Should We Fill Potholes with Toll Road Funds?
(Blog/Public Policy )

... repealed. In fact, it recently increased by 25 cents.   There is no debate that governments need more revenue for maintenance, repairs, and new projects. However, the current political climate poses ...

2. Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts.
(Blog/Public Policy )

... developments: the release and subsequent comment period for the U. S. Department of State’s Fifth Climate Action Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the imminent introduction of ...

3. Cap & Trade Charade
(Blog/Public Policy )

It appears the CARB is hell bent to make California the most expensive state in the nation to do business with by continuing to press a unilateral cap and trade regime within the state. This recent WSJ ...

4. Observations from the Wall Street Journal Eco:nomics Conference
(Blog/Public Policy )

Last week, I had the privilege of attending the Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics Conference which pulled together leading folks from the energy, investment and policy areas for focused discussions concerning ...

5. Goin’ Back to Cali? I Don’t Think So.
(Blog/Public Policy )

Well, it’s been an insanely fast start to the new year, so apologies for my tardiness concerning blog posting. And, what an interesting new year it’s been thus far. I’ve been tracking a curious set of ...

6. Greenhouse Organics?
(Blog/Public Policy )

Ok, my last blog entry elicited quite a response from friends and colleagues. Most questioned whether my office should be searched for a pod (see "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"), and one, in particular, ...

7. Politics + Science = Trouble
(Blog/Public Policy )

The EPA’s recent endangerment ruling on greenhouse gases ahead of the global climate summit in Copenhagen is a dangerous mix of pseudo-science and political agenda that can have serious repercussions on ...

8. Change is Blowing in the Wind
(Blog/Tax Determination)

Is your tax manager lying awake at night pondering the climate change measures that are working their way through Congress? Case in point: Democrats on the Senate’s Boxer- EPW (Environment and Public ...