Paul Chesser

Here’s yet another example of nanny-state government know-it-alls who unnecessarily coerce an industry into behaviors simply because they can. This time it’s in the name of energy efficiency, which the North Carolina Building Code Council just can’t believe is an…

While delegates at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change mingled and planned the redistribution of the world’s wealth, my friends at Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow — last year’s Greenpeace infiltrators — invited some folks on a side trip…

As House Republicans have planned to assume control in January, the biggest debate about chairmanships has been over who will manage the Energy and Commerce Committee, with Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan next in line in seniority. But many conservatives…

It’s more than just his 180º on the incandescent light bulb. The representative from Michigan’s 6th District really wants the Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship. Just look at what’s posted on his Congressional web page: POLITICO: Fortifying Our Energy Security…

Cap-and-trade is said to be dead, and the general belief I’m hearing out of D.C. is that a national Renewable Electricity Standard (introduced in a bill co-sponsored by Democrat Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico and Republican Sen. Sam Brownback…

The Washington Times today delivers all the wailing from the Left over House Republicans’ decision to eliminate the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which Democrat leaders launched in 2007 as a tool that was toothless to advance legislation,…

That’s what Eric Carlson, president of Carbonfund, said last week. I explain in a post for the National Legal and Policy Center how he not-so-politely asked the U.S. (an “800-pound gorilla”) to leave the climate change negotiations in Cancun this…

Following the Transportation Security Administration body scan and pat-down policy furor, we’ve heard some airport administrators say they would like to replace the agency’s personnel with outside contractors to handle security (although they’d still have to follow TSA procedures). Count…

The good people at Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow have attended the annual International Climate Change Conference for years now, and in Cancun this week they caught up with UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri: When asked about the fact that…

Do you check that box on your tax return to dedicate funds to the Presidential campaign? Okay, you probably don’t, but I guess a lot of folks do. Maybe after reading this report from the ABC affiliate in Raleigh, NC,…