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.
View all authorsThe International Nuclear Safety Center has a map of the United States that displays the location of each reactor in the continental United States. The… Read More
The supposition that nuclear energy is dangerous is hardly a new story. Although most of the nuclear fear mongering has been subdued through recognition of… Read More
If so, give credit where credit is due. White House spokesman Ben LaBolt told FOXNews.com, As the president stated during the campaign, he does not… Read More
They didn’t support it the first time around and nothing has been done to indicate to Americans that change and sustainability are on the horizon…. Read More
Or should the question be how much will they waste? Economist Arnold Kling has a list of risks associated with a large stimulus. Number one… Read More
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Nuclear Energy Institute is calling on the Obama Administration to create a blue-ribbon commission to look at alternatives… Read More
In delivering his speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M is introducing a plan for even more green energy and more… Read More
Congressional conferees reportedly stripped the $50 billion energy loan guarantee authorization from the final version of the stimulus package. Although most emissions-free sources would have… Read More
Nuclear energy provides the United States with 20 percent of its electricity, but none to Utah. If the state legislature gets their wish, it could… Read More
In what has been an unusually and welcoming warm week in the District and with that comes the “What’s so bad about global warming?” or… Read More
That seems to be sentiment coming from Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Ken Salazar: President Obama is shelving a plan announced… Read More
It’s no surprise the stimulus bill is loaded with green energy initiatives. Ideally, the bill can kill two birds with one stone by creating green… Read More
The AP reports: The Swedish government agreed Thursday to scrap a three-decade ban on building new nuclear reactors, saying it needs to avoid producing more… Read More
And so it begins: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he’s scrapping the lease of dozens of parcels of federal land for oil and gas drilling… Read More
Will the Stimulus plan currently proposed by Congress actually create jobs? The short answer is no. The longer answer is the government cannot create jobs;… Read More
Politicians and consumers learned valuable lessons this summer when national gasoline prices peaked at over four dollars per gallon. Simply put, energy supply must be expanded in… Read More
Vincent de Rivaz, CEO of the UK arm EDF energy, made an interesting but frightening comparison when talking about trading carbon credits under the European… Read More
Another reason we need a free market approach to managing nuclear waste in the United States: “Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have… Read More
An economic recovery plan that creates jobs, lowers gas and electricity prices, and won’t cost taxpayers $825 billion? Generally, when something is too good to… Read More
Global warming skeptics generally fall into four camps. 1.) We are in a period of global warming just as we could enter a period of… Read More
From Drudge: Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the ‘urgent need’ to combat… Read More
Fresh off receiving taxpayer money to stay afloat for a few more months and to submit a new business plan for economic sustainability, automakers now… Read More
We’ve written in detail here how the nuclear industry in the United States is growing rapidly despite the fact that construction on a nuclear reactor… Read More
On Wednesday Nevadan officials met to discuss the transportation of used nuclear fuel to the geologic repository Yucca Mountain. Needless to say, officials had concerns… Read More
Sarah Palin is not the VP of the United States but we can still drill, baby, drill. Although President Obama and some Democrats have hinted… Read More
I read this on my Metro ride to work this morning: Between 1978 and 2001, Americans’ average life span increased almost three years to 77,… Read More
In Tuesday’s inaugural address, President Barack Obama delivered the following words: Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are… Read More
Will the United States government fund Italy’s Fiat’s attempt to own a majority stake in Chrysler? While most people were following other news on Tuesday,… Read More
It should be no surprise that Americans favor new nuclear energy in the United States. Nuclear is clean, safe and affordable and already 20% of… Read More
If the tide on global warming is beginning to shift, and climate scientists who believe global warming is a serious threat are looking for a… Read More
