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How about the likelihood that it will add a couple of points to the structural unemployment. Workers and families in Delaware may be wondering how cap-and-trade legislation would affect their income, their jobs, and the cost of energy. Implementing Waxman-Markey would put a chokehold on Delaware’s economic potential, reducing gross state product by $2.32 billion in 2035 As the economy adjusts to shrinking gross domestic product (GDP) and rising energy prices, employment will take a

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.This month the health care debate seems to be sucking most of the oxygen out of the policy atmosphere. Meanwhile, we’re still emitting levels of carbon dioxide that threaten the long-run health of the planetary economy. The House of Representatives took historic action in June, approving the Waxman-Markey bill (officially titled the American Clean Energy and Security Act, or ACES) t

Yes, the international offset market is an actual market that shrinks when the price drops (see “ Do the 2 billion offsets allowed in Waxman-Markey gut the emissions targets? ” and “ The CDM: Rip-offsets or real reductions? “). Indian CDM applications fall 30 per cent as carbon credit prices slump The number of Indian carbon offset projects seeking approval under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme has fallen by 30 per cent due to the global recession, according to an ind

In Sunday’s Washington Post, yet another inane, deceptive, truthiness laden OPED appears on energy issues. Not satisfied with publishing George Will’s Will-ful Deceit, Krauthammer’s fact-free forays into energy analysis, Samuelson’s truthiness, and Sarah Palin’spaltry shallowness, and others, Kathleen Parker has stepped up to the plate for an attack on the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act (Waxman-Markey) that creates a strawman argument, ignoring core elements within the bill, to ma

We’ve all heard about the little dust-up between Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Harry Alford and Democrat senator Barbara Boxer during an Environment & Public Works (EPW) hearing on “green” jobs. Boxer, the chairman of the EPW committee, was trying to refute a report commissioned by Alford’s organization stating that the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act — which I’ll call “cap-and-sap” — would actually cause a net reduction in jobs. So, marshalling her argumen