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 authorsCalifornia Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, has a New Year’s resolution. For the good of the economy, let’s all hope… Read More
President-elect Barack Obama is set to take command a week from today. One of the programs he’s been touting from the beginning of his campaign… Read More
It’s confirmation week and the hearing for nominee for Secretary of Energy, Stephen Chu, is tomorrow, January 13th. We’ve written about Chu before (here and… Read More
Finally some good news coming out of Washington: “Southwest Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt today reintroduced legislation, the Boutique Fuel Reduction Act of 2009, to lower… Read More
Doesn’t Harry Reid know that Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest? A day for NFL playoffs. Apparently not, since he’s calling for… Read More
Remember those games when you were younger (they also have them at bars)where you would test your observation skills by picking out the 10 differences… Read More
Despite a new study that warns of “staggering costs” for nuclear power, the contracts keep on coming. The Pittsburgh-Tribune Review reports, Westinghouse Electric Co. said… Read More
Jack Spencer, Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy at the Heritage Foundation, authored this post. The Center for American Progress is promoting a study called “Business Risks… Read More
Good news, Mr. Gore. You no longer have to worry about polar bears arduously attempt to settle on a piece of breaking ice as portrayed… Read More
From the Detroit Free Press: Purpose: The terms and conditions of the financing provided by the Treasury Department will facilitate restructuring of our domestic auto… Read More
Apparently not: Electricite de France SA and Constellation Energy Group say they want Exelon to join their UniStar Nuclear Energy development venture. After being ranked… Read More
Enjoying the $1.67-a-gallon gas for your holiday travels? Well, enjoy it while you can because the guys President-elect Obama is appointing in key positions want… Read More
From the Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman, Milton’s son. Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each… Read More
From Reuters: China has started building a new nuclear power plant in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, the second of three Beijing aimed to… Read More
Nothing gathers a crowd in Washington like the sight of money being handed out. Banks, carmakers and now ethanol? From the Wall Street Journal: The… Read More
Despite the fact that Congress intended the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) solely for financial institutions, the Bush administration, the Treasury, Members of… Read More
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqg7ThZB04[/youtube] When President-elect Barack Obama discusses his cap-and-trade policy (it gets good around the 32-second mark), at least he acknowledges “electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.”… Read More
Surely, some concessions can be made, right?
So it looks like President-elect Obama is going to name his energy and environment team next week. Among the purported choices is Nobel-winning physicist Steven… Read More
Al Gore is a politician who somehow managed to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Ivar Giaever is a Nobel Laureate in Physics. When it comes to… Read More
There’s been a lot of good discussion on the auto bailout over the past day or so. And by good discussion, I mean pointing out… Read More
When nuclear experts discuss nuclear energy, they generally talk about three different parts: the front end of the fuel cycle, business and operations, and the… Read More
The old saying no news is good news certainly holds true in this case. With talks of an auto bailout and a certain Illinois governor… Read More
Not only can we learn from the Russians, the Russians can learn from themselves. This comes from Marginal Revolution: One headline reads: Detroit Bailout is… Read More
As countries from all over the world reconvene in frigid Posnan, Poland for the second week of United Nations climate change discussions, the potential for… Read More
A few weeks ago, CEOs from Detroit’s Big Three flew to Washington in their private planes asking for $25 billion. They were ridiculed for flying… Read More
June 4, 2008, must seem like light years ago for Detroit. On that Wednesday night, the Detroit Red Wings hoisted Lord Stanley’s Cup in Hockeytown,… Read More
The Wall Street Journal ran a great article on those ‘other’ car manufacturers we have in the U.S. The takeaway: These are the 12 “foreign,”… Read More
Yes, you did read that title correctly, and no, it is not a joke. This is what happens when wasteful subsidies distort the market: In… Read More
The Congressional restrictions on energy leasing in 85 percent of America’s territorial waters, which have been renewed annually since 1982, were allowed to lapse this… Read More
