Katie Tubb is a policy analyst for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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The House gave no additional funds for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) work to finish the review of the Yucca Mountain license in its massive… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How would you like to get paid a full-time salary plus benefits for not working, and without taking any sick days? Sounds like a dream,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
No good deed goes unpunished. Or at least, such was the case earlier this month when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Gunnison… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Environmental Protection Agency just released its proposed new standard on ground-level ozone, which is a component of smog. Every five years, the EPA is… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The federal government’s mandate to require Americans to use expensive, inefficient biofuels is so broken and dysfunctional it can’t even decide the ideal target amount… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The past month has seen considerable news on the global warming front—the National Academy of Sciences found that the U.N. underestimates the amount of carbon… Read More
Energy Commentary
After six years and several court cases, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has finally released the report that every American has paid for and could… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Imagine the federal government creating a company to promote an industry and bankrolling up to half of its budget. If this company were promoting the… Read More
EnergyCommentary
A whole generation of people have been born, learned how to walk, ride bikes, drive cars, graduated from high school, celebrated 18 birthdays, and are… Read More
EnergyCommentary
California’s recent drought has many people, including policymakers, looking to point the finger at global warming. The authors of several recent scientific papers aren’t so… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The White House yesterday released a list of executive actions to “combat climate change” with “solar deployment and energy efficiency” regulations that promise to cut… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to finalize its “continued storage” rule, establishing a general recognition that onsite storage of spent nuclear fuel is safe… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Limited in their usefulness—that is the message one walks away with from the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) evaluation of the reports from the Environmental Protection… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz recently praised the growth occurring in the wind industry in his remarks on the release of two Department of Energy (DOE)… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Visiting America for the U.S.–Africa Leaders Summit last week, heads of African nations had plenty to say about the need to increase access to reliable,… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) expected ozone standard, expected to come in December, could be the most expensive regulation in U.S. history, according to a… Read More
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While the Export-Import Bank struggles to find reasons to justify its reauthorization, some have begun claiming that the U.S. nuclear industry needs Ex-Im to compete… Read More
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Some in Congress seem to think the federal government can do a better job marketing and promoting tourism to America than the $1.5 trillion industry… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, takes a leaf from King Solomon to build his moral case for a federal… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The House is set to take up several energy bills this week. In the wake of an Energy Information Report (EIA) report released last Friday… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee yesterday unveiled its energy and water spending bill, which includes an egregious tax on utilities for uranium… Read More
EnergyCommentary
It seems like with global warming embedded in our politics (for now), anything we don’t fully understand can now be ‘legitimately’ blamed on the weather…. Read More
EnergyCommentary
The House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee released its draft bill today. It takes positive steps toward environmental regulation and nuclear waste management. But the… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
Congress and the federal government have enacted policies and made decisions in the name of protecting the environment. The problem is, now those decisions have… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy announced yesterday nearly $9 million in university research grants to study cleaner cookstoves and fuels that “improve air… Read More
EnergyNews
The commercial nuclear power industry has for over 30 years been paying billions of dollars for a nonexistent government waste management program—until today. As of… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
Yesterday the Senate decided to take up legislation to extend a package of tax breaks that expired last year. The task before Senators now is… Read More
EnergyNews
Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to defend their budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2015… Read More
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According to a March Gallup poll, 50 percent of respondents thought the quality of the environment in the U.S., as a whole, is getting worse…. Read More
Maybe this is crazy, but the number one dietary concern when it comes to school lunches should be that kids actually eat lunch. For all… Read More
