Saving Money While Helping the Environment

Sure, a lot of organizations make that claim.  But Green Scissors is an organization that may have more credence than most.  Green Scissors has been around since 1994 with the same aim - more money, better environment.  Its 2012 report combines the efforts of three different organizations: Friends of the Earth, an environmental organization; Taxpayers for Common Sense, a "budget watchdog"; and R Street, a "free market think tank".  These organizations have agreed on federal budget cuts that they claim would save almost $700 billion.  The cuts would be in energy, federal insurance, agriculture, transportation, and lands and water.

The authors agree that some numbers are very hard to compute, but they have spelled out the reasoning behind their calculations.  Obviously, they've overestimated the savings, but our Congressmen should study the report as there is at least $100 billion that could be saved.