Nicolas Loris

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Nicolas Loris, an economist, focuses on energy, environmental and regulatory issues as the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.

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    Tax Incentives Are No Way to Drive Energy Innovation. Here’s Why.

    Adam Michel
    The best ways to tame environmentally harmful emissions is to allow the private sector to innovate cleaner and more efficient ways to produce, distribute, and use energy. Unfortunately, government subsidies, mandates, and other regulations largely fail to spur such developments, and instead bolster government-favored technologies. The latest example of this is a  recent proposal from…
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    Reasons for Texas Blackouts and How Best to Avoid Them Going Forward

    Nicolas Loris
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    If Biden Tightens Fuel Economy Standards, Consumers Will Be Squeezed

    Nicolas Loris
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    Look to Native Americans’ Forest Management for Better Wildfire Abatement

    Nicolas Loris
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    To Reach Younger Audiences, Policymakers Should Turn to the Environment

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    Why California’s Natural Gas Appliance Bans Are Bad Economic and Environmental Policy

    Nicolas Loris
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    Why California Should Let Markets, Not Mandates, Drive Vehicle Choice

    Nicolas Loris
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    The Facts About Climate Change and California Fires

    Nicolas Loris
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    Countering the Left’s Climate Power Grab With Facts

    Nicolas Loris
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    Combating the Tyranny, Waste, and Economic Devastation of ‘Green’ Agenda With Free Enterprise

    Nicolas Loris
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    Modernizing America’s Environmental Policy for the 21st Century

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    The Alaska Pebble Mine Project Has Been Held Up for Years. Science, Not Politics, Should Guide the Approval Process.

    Nicolas Loris
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    Second House ‘Minibus,’ With $1 Trillion Onboard, Careens Off Road Into a Fiscal, Policy Wreck

    David Ditch
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    House Appropriations ‘Minibus’ Bill Stuffed With Problematic Policies, Overspending

    David Ditch
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    Raise Entry Fees for Funds to Reduce the Maintenance Backlog at Our National Parks

    Nicolas Loris
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    In Responding to Low Oil Prices, Patience Is a Virtue

    Nicolas Loris
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    Don’t Expand Federal Energy Loan Programs. Unplug Them.

    Nicolas Loris
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    Why Eco-Warriors’ Bid to Ban Natural Gas Appliances Is Wrongheaded

    Nicolas Loris
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    COVID-19 Is Helping the Environment. But at What Cost?

    Nicolas Loris
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    Tariffs on Imported Oil Aren’t the Cure for the Industry’s Woes

    Nicolas Loris
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    Costly, Ineffective Climate Mandate for Airlines Rightly Left at Gate in COVID-19 Bill

    Nicolas Loris
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    A Government-Managed Alliance With Saudi Arabia Isn’t the Solution for Low Oil Prices

    Nicolas Loris
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    Energy Bailouts and Handouts Don’t Belong in Coronavirus Packages

    Nicolas Loris
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    What Collapsing Oil Prices Mean for America

    Nicolas Loris
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    Senate’s ‘Energy Innovation’ Bill Wasteful, Redundant

    Nicolas Loris
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    Fracking Ban Would Hurt Environment

    Nicolas Loris
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    How the Shale Revolution Became the MVP of US Energy Production

    Nicolas Loris
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    French Protesters Didn’t Want Macron’s Gas Tax. They Should Reject His Climate Agenda.

    Nicolas Loris
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    The Green New Deal Isn’t Just Expensive. It’s Also Bad Environmental Policy.

    Nicolas Loris
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    EPA Is Right to Give States More Control Over Coal Ash Regulation

    Nicolas Loris
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    Staying in Paris Agreement Would Have Cost Families $20K

    Nicolas Loris
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    Breathe Free: Capitalism Helps Protect the Environment

    Nicolas Loris
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    More Ethanol Means Higher Prices, and Not Just for Gasoline

    Nicolas Loris
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    It’s Lights Out for Obama-Era Bulb Ban That Would Have Curbed Consumer Choice

    Nicolas Loris
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    Automakers’ Flip-Flop on CAFE Standards Kicks Car Buyers to the Curb

    Nicolas Loris
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    The Green New Deal: Less About Climate, More About Control

    Nicolas Loris
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    EPA’s Reversal on Alaska’s Pebble Mine a Victory for Regulatory Process

    Nicolas Loris
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    This 113-Year-Old Law Is Hurting American Ports

    Nicolas Loris
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    Why the Carbon Tax Would Backfire on America

    Laura Williamson
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    How Natural Gas Exports Are Giving America a Key Edge

    Nicolas Loris
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    Big Government Is Not the Answer to Climate Change

    Nicolas Loris
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    What Drives Gas Prices Up, and How We Can Steer Them Down

    Nicolas Loris
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    On Earth Day, Gloomy Predictions Haven’t Come to Pass

    Nicolas Loris
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    Democrats Want to Rejoin the Paris Accord. Let’s Recall Why It Was Such a Bad Deal.

    Nicolas Loris
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    A Glimpse of What the Green New Deal Would Cost Taxpayers

    Kevin Dayaratna
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    Green New Deal Would Barely Change Earth’s Temperature. Here Are the Facts.

    Nicolas Loris
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    3 Takeaways From the Shutdown Regarding America’s National Parks

    Nicolas Loris
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    America’s Christmas Gift to the World: More Energy Freedom

    Katie Tubb
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    Unplug Electric Vehicle Subsidies and Let Consumers Decide

    Nicolas Loris
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    4 Problems With the New Climate Change Report

    Nicolas Loris
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    UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism

    Nicolas Loris
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    Those Coal and Nuclear Bailouts Aren’t Coming. Here’s Why That’s Good News.

    Katie Tubb