March 27, 2009
Written by: Stephen Gold
Maybe you've heard of Earth Hour -- the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored "event" when businesses, households, and even some municipalities around the world will turn their lights off for an hour to raise awareness of global climate change. It's scheduled to...
March 11, 2009
Written by: Stephen Gold
Smart grid was front and center in the WaPo yesterday. The lead article expounded on the benefits of overhauling the energy grid to create a more energy efficient, effective, safer electricity distribution system -- and the paper provided an excellent chart that gave a simplified explanation on how...
March 3, 2009
Written by: Stephen Gold
Good to see Greg Mankiw publicly expressing his opposition to the so-called "Employers Free Choice Act." In a recent blog post, the former Council of Economic Advisers' chairman raised two key flaws in the "card check" legislation: First, the act...
March 2, 2009
Written by: Stephen Gold
President Obama's proposed new budget was just unveiled, and true to his word he's included modernizing the electrical grid as part of his proposed overhaul of the nation's infrastructure. For example, on pages 22-23: Modernize the Electric Grid. We know that...
