“A world-leading ‘fat tax’ has been abolished in Denmark, with the country admitting the controversial attempt at engineering a healthier populace has failed. A planned tax on some high-sugar foods has also been abandoned, marking a setback for advocates of this method of encouraging health.
According to the Danish Ministry of Taxation the country’s tax on unhealthy, high-fat products had driven up prices and put jobs at risk…” [Nature]
Berkeley climate clown Richard Muller and befuddled Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels write in today’s Wall Street Journal [Our comments in bold brackets]: Continue reading Odd (and Not-too-Bright) Couple: Richard Muller & Mitch Daniels push nat gas by way of climate alarmism
“When American voters re-elected President Obama, they also returned his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior and Energy departments and wide-ranging agenda for “fundamentally transforming” our nation.” [Washington Times]
“Right now states are responsible for overseeing fracking. That means there could be 20 to 30 different state regulations imposed on fracking businesses. Why not develop one set of national requirements based on the best available science and technology and leave the oversight and enforcement up to the states?” [New York Times]
“Robert E. Murray, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Murray Energy Corp., delivered this prayer and message to approximately 50 staff members on Wednesday afternoon.” [Wheeling Intelligencer]
“Indeed, as we’ve seen in case after case, this is the EPA’s new approach: Forget about risk evaluation because there is no risk so small that it’s not worth spending huge amounts of public and private dollars to lessen just a little more. That’s not science, folks, nor is it sound public policy. It’s simply a witch hunt, and now that the president has been re-elected, we’re going to have so many more of them that it would make 17th-century Puritans living in Salem blush.” [Rich Trzupek, Washington Times]
“Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term as president, according to HSBC Holdings Plc.” [Bloomberg]
HSBC must think that we live in a dictatorship.
It’s hard to believe that John McCain got more votes in 2008 than Mitt Romney did in 2012. McCain 2008 may also have beaten Obama 2012. Continue reading Shock: McCain (2008) Beat Romney and Obama!
“Yet doing anything bigger on climate change will likely require working with a Republican Congress.” [WashPost WonkBlog]
In his victory address early Wednesday morning, Obama said “We want our children to live in an America … that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.” [Huffington Post]
“Mr. Mann’s lawsuit ought to be thrown out.” [Washington Times]
“[A truly populist agenda] also means not just more renewable power but democratic community control over those projects.” [The Nation]
FLASHBACK: Naomi Klein: ‘If You Take Climate Change Seriously, You Have to Throw Out the Free-Market Playbook’
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