Ben Lieberman is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute specializing in environmental policy.
View all authorsSupporters of the just-passed stimulus bill have called it a lot of things, but one thing they can’t yet call it is a success. Only… Read More
A key argument in favor of the stimulus package is that it contains several measures that are not only good for the environment but will… Read More
Largely ignored amid the presidential and congressional races on Nov. 4 was the fact that several environmental ballot initiatives faired poorly. In California, no less… Read More
Perhaps the oddest reaction to the financial meltdown and looming recession comes from environmental activists and bureaucrats who see it as a rationale to transform… Read More
Bad energy policy usually involves repeating the mistakes made from 1970 to 1980 — windfall profits taxes, federally subsidized alternative energy sources, price controls, and… Read More
Is it too much to ask for an energy bill to actually have some energy in it? Apparently it is, judging by the latest offshore… Read More
The problem with too many of Washington’s energy bills is that the only energy they contain is in the title. That was the case with… Read More
Twenty-five percent of America’s oil production and a significant amount of onshore refining capacity and pipeline infrastructure is located in the hurricane-prone central and western… Read More
The Democratic National Convention in Denver endeavored to be “the most environmentally sustainable political convention in modern American history,” according to the convention’s Director of… Read More
Sometimes the common sense of the American people bursts onto the political scene and changes the conventional wisdom in Washington. Such is the case with… Read More
Today, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson denied Texas its requested waiver of the ethanol mandate. While a disappointment, the decision was not unexpected as… Read More
Critics of expanding domestic oil drilling into currently restricted areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the 85% of our territorial waters… Read More
America needs more oil, and we just found plenty. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently published its “Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal: Estimates of Undiscovered Oil… Read More
Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an energy solution for politicians who are not serious about real energy solutions, but H.R 6578 seeks to… Read More
A picture is worth a thousand words – or in this case ten billion barrels. A group of ten House Republicans just did something few… Read More
Though still facing an uphill fight in the current Congress, the recently introduced American Energy Act is an important bill because it keeps up the… Read More
Of all the overblown predictions of a future global warming apocalypse in the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human… Read More
Hundreds of pages of bureaucratic micromanaging of the economy, all in the name of fighting global warming, make up the Environental Protection Agency’s Advance Notice of… Read More
At the G8 Summit in Japan, there was much talk about global warming, and considerable self-congratulation over the agreement among member nations to reduce greenhouse… Read More
The laundry list of excuses not to expand access to American oil was never convincing even when gas was $2.00 and gets less so as… Read More
The proposed global warming bill, the America’s Climate Security Act (S. 3036), would cost trillions of dollars and impose significant job losses and energy price… Read More
