Posted on March 20th, 2013 by Sean Kennedy
Alaska has long received more than its fair share of federal funding. Numerous studies throughout the years list the state as the biggest beneficiary of federal spending, receiving more per capita than anywhere else in the country. The late Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) never apologized for directing money to his home state, and Alaska routinely [...]
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Posted on October 4th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Since 1965, LWCF state recreation grants have provided matching funds to state and local governments that improve or purchase lands for parks. The amounts have fluctuated from as low as zero in 1996 to $140 million in 2002. It makes no sense to tax people all over the United States to pay for public parks [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will examine the water infrastructure grants and how to save through elimination of the program. In his FY 2012 Budget, President Obama proposed eliminating targeted water infrastructure grants because they “are duplicative of funding available for such projects through the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRFs), but are not [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste examines the Clean Coal Technology Program and how to save $259 million in the program. The Department of Energy’s Clean Coal Technology Program picks winners and losers and unnecessarily distorts energy markets. It arbitrarily bets millions of taxpayer dollars on the hope that clean coal will be relevant in the future. A [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will examine the Weatherization Assistance Program and how eliminating is best for taxpayers. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus), the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), a Carter-era Department of Energy program whose budget had loitered at about $250 million for years, received an injection of roughly $5 billion. The San Antonio [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Today, the Daily Waste is looking into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and finding savings to be had. The 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) created 104 million acres of wilderness areas, national parks, and wildlife refuges, including the 19 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). ANILCA stipulated that potential petroleum reserves should [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will examine the ENERGY STAR program and ways to save within it. The ENERGY STAR program, a joint venture between the Energy Department and the EPA, started in 1992 as a voluntary labeling program to identify energy-efficient products. It includes a “Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR” messaging program and funded [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2012 by Maddie Eldridge
Imagine if the government passed a law requiring you to purchase either a specified number of pink elephants or government-issued “pink elephant credits.” This is, in essence, what the government is doing to oil companies: requiring them to purchase a nonexistent product or purchase credits for a nonexistent product. The seeds of this nonsensical policy [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by Leslie Paige
The author of this post is Roger Morse, CAGW Visiting Fellow Bureaucratic, command-and-control regulation of coastal fisheries wastes taxpayers’ dollars and endangers the sustainability of this common resource. Managing a shared resource like fish in the sea is a difficult problem. Since no one owns them, there has always been simply a race to capture [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2012 by Leslie Paige
It has clearly not been a good year for Energy Secretary Stephen Chu. The $500 million Solyndra scandal attracted a slew of scorching media stories; the more light that is shed on that story, the uglier it gets. The Obama administration must be doing some sort of polling on the subject and getting alarming results because, after initially shrugging [...]
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