{"id":1885,"date":"2009-09-28T12:55:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2009-09-28T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:55:36","slug":"the-economics-of-waxman-markey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/09\/28\/the-economics-of-waxman-markey\/","title":{"rendered":"The economics of Waxman-Markey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">An insightful (if decidedly partisan) op-ed by <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/opinion\/editorialsandoped\/oped\/columnists\/paulkrugman\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Krugman<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/25\/opinion\/25krugman.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friday\u2019s New York Times<\/a> focuses on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Clean_Energy_and_Security_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waxman-Markey climate change bill<\/a> that was approved in the House but has stalled \u2013 due in no small part due to the debate over health care reform \u2013 in the Senate. Krugman points out that there are two kinds of people opposed to climate change legislation: those dwindling numbers who don\u2019t believe climate change is happening at all, and those who believe it is happening but that any legislation will be too costly to the economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">He says that in many cases, climate change legislation would cost the average family about $160 per year, but also that our use of energy right now is so inefficient that implementing more efficient technologies could actually save Americans money. Like opposition to health-care reform, he says, those who oppose Waxman-Markey rest their campaign \u201cmainly on lies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/25\/opinion\/25krugman.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An insightful (if decidedly partisan) op-ed by Paul Krugman in Friday\u2019s New York Times focuses on the Waxman-Markey climate change bill that was approved in the House but has stalled \u2013 due in no small part due to the debate over health care reform \u2013 in the Senate. Krugman points out that there are two kinds of people opposed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,48],"tags":[60,135,355,259],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-ecology-in-policy","category-ecology-and-society","tag-climate-change","tag-economy","tag-paul-krugman","tag-waxman-markey-climate-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}