Energetics Cliff Notes: Tuesday Edition

• Roger Pielke Jr. offers a counterpoint argument to Robert Stavins on the death of cap™.
• Kamala Harris, current San Francisco Attorney General and candidate for California AG, has added defending AB 32 to her campaign pledges.
• State Senator Alex Padilla's SB 71 passed last week, which provides sales tax exclusions for green technology projects.
• The lobby for renewable energy is growing in Washington.
• Check out an early review of Ian McEwan's new novel Solar, which is about a climate scientist.
• Earth Energy Resources is in the process of raising capital to develop the first major US oil sands extraction site.
• Ezra Klein uses the efforts to regulate CO₂ by the EPA as a further indication of the Senate outsourcing domestic policy.
• Nordhaus and Shellenberger discuss the dangers of linking energy policy to climate science.