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Homestar: The Details

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Posted on Jun 18 2010 by Daniel

Find out how much Uncle Sam is willing to pay you for upgrading your home’s insulation, furnace, or windows through the pending Homestar Program. Cha-ching!


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  Tags: efficiency, home comfort, homestar, legislation Category: Energy, Policy, Residential

Division by Division

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Posted on Jan 10 2010 by Daniel

TweetWith the unemployment rate hanging like an albatross at 10%, the nation is looking for some fresh ideas for job creation. Thus, on Friday, President Obama spoke about Green Job creation, fueled by a 2.3 billion dollar  tax credit to American manufacturers. According to the President, “Through this initiative, we’re awarding $2.3 billion in tax [...]


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  Tags: legislation Category: Policy

Clunker Debunker

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Posted on Nov 4 2009 by Daniel

TweetI hate to feel vindicated by the recent report from Edmunds.com stating that the Cash for Clunkers program failed to live up to its economic promise, but my arguments that C4C was a very expensive way to “cut carbon” bears out in the market place. Still, I’m disappointed to see the White House feebly defend [...]


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  Tags: cash for clunkers, legislation, transportation Category: Policy

EPA Counts Carbon

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Posted on Sep 24 2009 by Daniel

TweetWell, it’s official – greenhouse gases are now under EPA regulation.  There’s been talk for the last year or so, and battles over whether carbon falls under their jurisdiction.  At the same time, many states (including my state North Carolina) have enacted legislation to perform the same function on a more local level. The feds [...]


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  Tags: cap and trade, carbon footprint, data, legislation Category: Carbon, Policy

Cash for Clunkers or Expensive Irrelevance

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Posted on Aug 9 2009 by Daniel

TweetI’ve been writing UNC’s climate action plan over the past couple of weeks, leaving me unable to come up with relevant blog posts after work.  That is, until people started hailing the “Cash for Clunkers” progam as a panacea for our earth, our economy, and our newly acquired car companies. From my perspective, the program [...]


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  Tags: cash for clunkers, LCA, legislation, transportation Category: Carbon, Policy

Questioning Cap and Trade? Part 1.

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Posted on Jun 30 2009 by Daniel

TweetI find myself in a curious predicament: my job pretty much depends on global warming legislation, but I can’t bring myself to support the Waxman-Markey carbon cap and trade bill recently passed in the US House of Representatives. If you haven’t read about it, the idea goes something like this: The government sets a cap [...]


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  Tags: cap and trade, legislation Category: Carbon, Policy

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