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    New EIA Report Shows Government Interference in the Oil, Gas, and Coal Industries
    Nowhere in the song “This Land Is Your Land” do the lyrics mention the federal government. Yet, a new report released on June 19 by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) confirms the large role the government has taken in regulating federally owned land in the oil, gas, and coal industries. Crude oil production in…
    Hanna Hebert
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    House Energy Bills Work Toward ‘All of the Above’
    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 which again showed decreasing energy production on federal lands, the House bills offer significant opportunities to correct President Obama’s “all of the above” but “none of the below” energy policy….
    Katie Tubb
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    1,000,000 Barrels a Day and Growing: Oil Production Skyrockets in North Dakota
    North Dakota has drilled its way into the record books, producing more than a million barrels of oil a day. Fueled by the energy revolution in the Bakken Oil Fields, North Dakota now supplies 12 percent of the nation’s total oil production. According to the state’s Department of Mineral Resources, in the month of April,…
    Philip Wegmann
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    Hiking the Federal Gas Tax Is a Mistake. Here’s Why.
    Much clamoring for more federal transportation spending, and fuel tax hikes to pay for it, has come out of Washington recently. The Highway Trust Fund faces a $15 billion gap in 2015 between projected spending and the money it will collect in fuel taxes and fees. Trouble is, our Washington-centric approach isn’t solving our traffic…
    Emily Goff
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    A Federal Gas Tax Hike for…What, Exactly?
    Senators Chris Murphy (D–CT) and Bob Corker (R–TN) have proposed hiking federal fuels taxes by 12 cents per gallon. Car and truck drivers and bus operators would pay a gas tax of 30.4 cents a gallon and a diesel tax of 36.4 cents a gallon—up from 18.4 cents and 24.4 cents, respectively. That is on…
    Emily Goff
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    Vermont Energy Project Would Reduce Heating Costs and CO2; Activists Oppose It Anyway
    An energy project that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and slashes heating costs might sound like an environmental activist’s dream. But one renewable-energy group is standing in the way of just such a project in Vermont—literally. Rising Tide Vermont, a group dedicated to “dismantling systems of oppression and domination such as sexism, racism and colonialism,” seeks…
    Bruce Parker
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    Energy: Exporting Gas Is Now a Necessity for the United States
    The recent $400 billion energy deal between Russia and China, the largest of its kind, is set to reshape the global energy markets and geopolitics. Under the deal, state-controlled Russian energy giant Gazprom will supply China with liquefied natural gas (LNG) for at least 30 years starting in 2018. It seems a natural fit. China…
    William T. Wilson
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    $34 Billion Energy Bill Could Use a Few More Cuts
    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 draft legislation largely misses the mark by continuing wasteful, taxpayer-funded energy subsidies and boosting spending for conventional energy such as oil, gas, coal, and nuclear energy technologies. The subcommittee should…
    Nicolas Loris | Katie Tubb
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    How the EPA Got Heritage’s Energy Analysis All Wrong
    Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency said a Heritage Foundation  analysis of the agency’s war on affordable and reliable energy bore little resemblance to reality. But a quick look at the facts and the EPA response reveals it is the agency that needs a reality check. The response comes after EPA announced a rule to…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Student Lunches Soon Could Be Influenced By Climate Change Concerns
    The Dietary Guidelines may soon be based on global warming as much as human nutrition. Currently, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) is working on recommendations for the 2015 Guidelines. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will use the Committee’s recommendations to modify the Guidelines, which…
    Daren Bakst
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    Climate Change Is a Fact. But These New Emissions Regulations Won’t Help the Environment.
    Draft regulations released Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency could cut carbon dioxide from existing power plants by 30 percent. Such a drastic cut will amount to a massive energy tax devoid of any benefit. President Obama warned us it was coming, when he said in in 2008 that electricity prices would “necessarily skyrocket” under…
    Nicolas Loris
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