“Environment” on The Daily Caller

The fight against plastic bags got into the holiday spirit this week. (more)

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will donate $50 million to the Sierra Club to support its nationwide campaign to eliminate coal-fired power plants. (more)

The global clean energy industry is set for a major crash. The reason is simple. Clean energy is still much more expensive and less reliable than coal or gas, and in an era of heightened budget austerity the subsidies required to make clean energy artificially cheaper are becoming unsustainable. (more)

There is ticket trouble for a woman on the Upper East Side. She says she threw away her newspapers in a city trash can and seconds later a city worker came running over yelling at her. She says she froze, and didn’t know what to do. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ leading environmental messenger, Al Gore, is declaring that President Barack Obama has failed to lead on the issue of global warming. (more)

As gas prices approach $5 a gallon, and some even predict $6 a gallon by summer, the White House has launched an investigation into what is causing the rapid price surge. But on Thursday’s “Mark Levin Show,” George Mason University economist Walter E. Williams said no investigation was necessary since the cause of the spike in energy prices was obviously the fault of Washington politicians listening to “environmental wackos.” (more)

Apple has come bottom of the most comprehensive green league table of technology companies because of its heavy reliance on “dirty data” centres. (more)

Across the country, private citizens and business owners are joining forces with Tea Party activists to push back against well-funded green pressure groups that work with government officials. Over the past few decades, the environmental movement has worked to undermine property rights, block entrepreneurial activity and expand regulatory control without a serious, concerted response, according to free-market advocates (more)

The Obama administration has repeatedly said job creation is a top priority, but apparently the memo seems to have missed the bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (more)

In a state where the oil and gas industry is king, the arrival of electric vehicles and building the charging infrastructure have jolted the public’s perception about Texas, Gov. Rick Perry said Friday. (more)

The budget deal that will be voted on this week to avoid a government shutdown may cost lives. The lives of gray wolves, that is. (more)

The environmental community, Thursday, responded to the budget battle on Capitol Hill by rebuking Republicans for playing politics with clean air. The American Lung Association (ALA) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) latched on to comments Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made about two Republican riders to the budget that would defund Planned Parenthood and restrict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations of greenhouse gas emissions. (more)

The Senate rejected four amendments Wednesday, including one offered by a Republican and three from Democrats, that would block or restrict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. But a vote on legislation in the House offered by Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan to block EPA regulations was put off until Thursday. (more)

The U.S. Secret Service said today that some federal vehicles for law enforcement and security purposes will be exempt from President Barack Obama’s directive that all federal vehicles purchased starting 2015 be advanced technology models. (more)

In a speech Wednesday at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., President Obama will outline his plan for America’s energy security, and according to senior White House officials, forge a new course in public discussion on the future of the country’s oil supply and energy independence. (more)

New Jersey could become the next state to pull out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced “Reggie”), a system in the northeast that environmentalists until recently pointed to as a cap-and-trade success story. Earlier this month, the New Hampshire state house voted to repeal its membership, and now Gov. Chris Christie is hinting at doing the same thing. (more)

The Obama administration has set a target of having 80 percent of America’s electricity come from “clean energy sources” by 2035, but ironically one of the biggest obstacles to this goal could come from within the environmental movement itself. (more)

A plan to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions is gaining momentum, but Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is playing the spoiler to the growing bi-partisan effort to stop the federal agency’s power grab. (more)

During the 2010 midterm elections, California voters rejected Prop. 23 – a provision that would have postponed the implementation of the state’s cap and trade program until unemployment was down for five consistent years. But in a ruling published on Monday, a San Francisco superior court judge went a step further and halted the entire program, arguing the California Air Resources Board (CARB) was “unable to make an informed decision” because it had failed to consider other alternatives. (more)

We have established that Obama’s war on coal hinges on the assumption that 100 new nuclear reactors will be built in the U.S. in the next few years. Without the power from those 100 new nuclear reactors, Obama’s plan will cause the lights to go out. You cannot rule out half of our electricity supply and pretend otherwise. (more)