Ben Lieberman is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute specializing in environmental policy.
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The federal government’s most sensible response to the high gasoline prices we are now experiencing is the exact opposite of what it is currently doing…. Read More
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It happens every spring—on the first hot day, homeowners switch on their air conditioners that have sat idle since September, cross their fingers, and pray… Read More
President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas. That’s a Harvard University study’s estimate of the per-gallon price of the president’s… Read More
The Washington Post asks: “What does it mean for a nation to be energy independent? Is it realistic and if so how should that be… Read More
The same ethical advice for doctors also makes sense for Congress as it considers several pending global warming bills – first do no harm. Given… Read More
The following Q&A with The Heritage Foundation’s Ben Lieberman is cross-posted from The Washington Post’s Planet Panel: Q: As the controversy swirling around the IPCC… Read More
The Washington Post asks: “Recently, a U.N. scientific report was found to have included a false conclusion about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. That followed… Read More
Q: If we’re so worried about global warming why has it been so cold here in the U.S., in Europe and other parts of the… Read More
To fully appreciate what a step backwards the final Copenhagen accord is, one has to recall the buildup to it. For the last two years,… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on… Read More
The United Nations climate change conference begins in Copenhagen today, but it may spell the beginning of the end to the global warming scare. For… Read More
Q: As we get closer to the United Nation’s conference on climate change in Copenhagen and nations begin setting their agendas, are their goals realistic?… Read More
President Obama gave a talk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today, focusing on energy policy and global warming. While the President’s MIT comments on… Read More
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Take good care of your current car. Given what the proposed Environmental Protection Agency/Department of Transportation regulations are going to do to new vehicles, you… Read More
Climate skeptics – those who do not believe that global warming is a crisis justifying a blank check response – have always had the soundest… Read More
In his original budget proposal, President Obama envisioned a cap-and-trade program that would raise hundreds of billions of dollars by selling emissions credits to businesses…. Read More
The Congressional Budget Office’s low-ball analysis of the Waxman-Markey global warming bill’s costs allowed President Obama to claim that this bill would cost each household… Read More
The Waxman-Markey global warming bill – already the most convoluted attempt at economic central planning this nation has ever seriously considered – just got a… Read More
The Waxman-Markey global warming bill is far and away the most worrisome environmental measure currently working its way through Congress, but it is certainly not… Read More
The last few years have been bumpy ones for energy supplies and prices, but one piece of good news has been the upturn in domestic… Read More
Summer is coming and homeowners know that it costs a few dollars more to crank up the air-conditioning by setting the thermostat a degree or… Read More
Consumers already know that the federal government’s ethanol mandate is bad news, but the latest EPA proposal works out the gory details for the years… Read More
The Obama administration’s Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has had a very busy first six weeks. His agency, which handles most domestic energy leasing,… Read More
So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy… Read More
