Kelly Rogers on September 2nd, 2009

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell initially provided hope to those interested Pennsylvanians who view solutions to climate change through economic lenses. Sadly, on Wednesday, September 2, 2009, Governor Rendell announced that he is giving up on a policy likely to maximize net social welfare. He has backed down on his proposed 5% severance tax on Marcellus Shale […]

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munnd on September 1st, 2009

Effectively combating global climate change will require a careful balancing act between the practical and the ideological, the short-term and the long-term, as well as the critical and the more trivial. In Parker and Blodgett’s 2008 CRS Report for Congress, three lenses for viewing climate change are offered to elucidate the language of debate among […]

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