Fossil fuel use protects us from climate-related risks

by Brian T. Schwartz | 9:53 pm, December 20, 2012

This originally appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on December 15, 2012. Many people will uncritically blame fossil fuel use for recent warm weather. But they are blind to how fossil fuels have reduced climate-related deaths since the 1920s. Since then, climate-related death rates have decreased by 98 percent, explains a Reason Foundation study by [...]

Vote “No” on Boulder 2A (2012): Climate Action Plan Tax Extension

by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:41 pm, October 27, 2012

Earlier this year I wrote a short piece in the Daily Camera summarizing the case against extending the City of Boulder’s Carbon Tax. In the 2012 election, it’s Boulder ballot issue 2A.  I reproduce it here: The Boulder City Council’s website touts a “Climate Action Plan” as one of its primarygoals. “The current goal is [...]

Oppose Boulder bag tax before it’s too late. It’s wasteful, threatens jobs, insults shoppers, & is an unlawful tax

by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:30 pm, October 15, 2012

Update, Oct 17: Now’s it’s a 10 cent tax. Final vote Nov. 1. On Tues, Oct. 16 the Boulder City Council will discuss and may pass a proposed 20-cent tax (“fee”) on plastic & paper grocery bags. Attend the meeting voice your disapproval. Summary arguments below. Last Sunday, the Boulder Daily Camera reported: When the city solicited [...]

Boulder/Denver grocery bag restrictions would trash our liberties — and for what?

by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:02 pm, August 18, 2012

This article originally appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on July 11, 2012. The Boulder City Council may soon vote to tax you for using disposable grocery bags — and possibly ban them outright. [Denver elected officials are also considering it.] But the city’s reasons for such restrictions collapse like a soggy paper bag. Better policies [...]

Carbon Emissions are Down; Environmentalsts Throw a Hissy Fit

by Randall Smith | 9:17 pm, July 22, 2012

I remember many years ago, when I was still a young’un, RTD and others were promoting their new natural gas powered vehicles. They vehicles, they claimed, were better for the environment because they had lower emissions than similar diesel vehicles. Th…

Contra Gasland Deception, Colorado Water Always Featured Natural Methane

by Ari Armstrong | 1:17 pm, June 26, 2012

From AriArmstrong.com: A couple of years ago the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission debunked major claims of the Gasland anti-industrial propaganda film: Gasland features three Weld County landowners, Mike Markham, Renee McClure, and Aimee Ellsworth, whose water wells were allegedly contaminated by oil and gas development. The COGCC investigated complaints from all three landowners [...]

Seeing Stars: All Your Data Belongs to the Government

by Randall Smith | 6:00 am, June 8, 2012

At least, that what the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act wants. It’s another bill that would eliminate your rights online for marginal gains in security. That’s okay, though. You like having the government snoop on everything you do online, right?

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The Green Cult of Secrecy

by Kelly Sloan | 11:17 pm, June 7, 2012

Evidently, to the environmental movement, transparency does not work both ways. At a “Uranium Confab” held in Moab UT a couple weeks back, speakers from various and sundry environmental groups provided the rustic looking crowd of about 30 with their take on how mining, uranium mining in particular, impacts the environment, communities, etc, as well as calls for various reforms, most centering on aggressive government action and increased public (read environmentlist) involvement in the permiting process. This journalist was excluded from sitting in on certain sessions, and told not to return for the second day, once it was determined that I was not a true-believing member of the green left. What I did get to hear was disturbing enough…

Boulder’s proposed grocery bag fee is garbage. It trashes our liberties

by Brian T. Schwartz | 7:45 am, May 19, 2012

A version of this article was printed in the Boulder Daily Camera on May 19, 2012. By Boulder’s standard of “zero waste,” the City Council’s plan to restrict plastic bag use is garbage. Regardless, such restrictions are foul rubbish. They empower … Continue reading →

Colorado’s Diminished-Capacity Senator

by Joshua Sharf | 9:08 am, May 18, 2012

Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources took up the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012, which would “require covered electricity retailers to supply a specified share of their electricity sales from qualifying clean energy resources.” The target would start at 24% in 2015, climbing to its final, and permanent level of 84% [...]

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