The Hearing Archive: Energy and Environment

Dividing the Loot from Cap and Trade

Now that the Senate Finance Committee has finished doing whatever it did to health-care reform, it is turning to cap and trade with this morning's hearing on "allowance and revenue distribution." This sounds like a boringly technical topic, but in...

The Economic Consequences of Rising Oil Prices

University of California, San Diego economics professor James D. Hamilton filed this guest blog post: This morning, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress took up the implications of rising world oil demand for the U.S. economy. I was...