Certainty Will Come by Eliminating Handouts for Ethanol and Wind
Energy policy was a hot topic for prospective Republican nominees for President at last week’s Iowa Agriculture Summit (Ag Summit). Unfortunately, a number of the… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
Lifting This Ban Could Reduce Gas Prices
Yet again, the push is on to lift the 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil. Yet again, opponents claim this would be a disaster …… Read More
EnergyNews
Here’s Why Some New York Towns Want to Secede to Pennsylvania
Some residents of New York’s Southern Tier have proposed seceding to Pennsylvania. Residents of the area say they’re unable to capitalize on the gas-rich Marcellus… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
Obama’s Plan Will Kill Jobs, Hike Heating Costs
Any Wisconsinites starting to wonder whether they are living through “The Long Winter,” as described by Laura Ingalls Wilder, will find no comfort in President… Read More
EnergyNews
Senate Fails to Override Obama’s Keystone XL Veto. See How Your Senators Voted.
On Wednesday, the Senate failed to override President Obama’s veto of legislation authorizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Sixty-two senators voted to authorize construction… Read More
EnergyNews
‘Protect the Land Owner’: Virginia Farmer Continues Fight Against Environmental Group
Instead of filing the same version of the conservation easement that was signed by its president and a Virginia farmer, the Piedmont Environmental Council pulled… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
In Australia, the Green Energy Fantasy Has Collapsed
If you are sailing miles from shore and come upon the rusted prows of sunken ships, you can be sure that water is not that deep and… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Republicans, Democrats Should Stop Asking for Energy Favoritism
An exchange Thursday in a House hearing illustrated what’s wrong with America’s energy policy. During the Department of Energy budget hearing Thursday, House Appropriations Chairman Hal… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama Administration: Leaving Fracking to States?
Although the White House Council of Economic Advisers’ annual report to Congress largely restates the President’s State of the Union address on “middle-class economics,” it… Read More
How Obama’s Veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline Unfolded in Real Time
After its passage in both the House and the Senate, legislation authorizing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline reached President Obama’s desk today. But,… Read More
Energy News
High-Profile Dispute Between Farm, Green Group Yields Property Rights Bill
After clashing with a non-profit land trust over the terms and conditions of a conservation easement that sits on her property, Martha Boneta saw no… Read More
EnergyNews
Study: Government’s Control of Land Is Hurting Oil Production, Job Growth
Current government regulations imposed by the Bureau of Land Management are harming energy production and holding back the U.S. economy, a new study reveals. “While… Read More
EnergyCommentary
What People Are Saying About the EPA’s Regulations
On Friday before leaving his position as a senior counselor to President Barack Obama on climate policy, John Podesta warned: Those in Congress who question… Read More
EnergyNews
Study: Obama’s Carbon Rules Could Cost Thousands of Manufacturing Jobs in Your State
A new study predicts that more than a half million manufacturing jobs will be eliminated from the U.S. economy as a result of the Obama… Read More
EnergyCommentary
How High Costs Killed This Clean Coal Power Plant Project
FutureGen is dead. Again. The Department of Energy pulled the plug on this $1.1 billion project in Illinois: a “clean coal” power plant that would… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Don’t Waste Energy on Fossil Fuel Divestment
Global Divestment Day(s) take place Feb. 13-14, and a movement is afoot to encourage entities to sell their portfolios of conventional fuel stocks. According to… Read More
EnergyCommentary
We Can Move Past Keystone XL By Building It
In discussing infrastructure in his State of the Union last month, President Obama said “Let’s set our sights higher than a single oil pipeline.” Well,… Read More
EnergyNews
EPA Under Fire for Concealing Controversial Scientific Data, Silencing Skeptics
For more than 15 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has resisted releasing data from two key studies to the general public and members of Congress…. Read More
EnergyNews
How This Phony CIA Agent Pulled Off a ‘Scam’ to Impose Environmental Regulations on Americans
Remember the EPA bureaucrat who got caught receiving $900,000 in pay without working because he claimed he also was employed by the CIA? According to a… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Solyndra, Fracking Boom Prove Private Sector, Not Government, Best at Picking Energy Winners
If you’re like most Americans, you’re enjoying the fact that it costs a lot less to fill up your car’s gas tank these days. If… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama Rejects Arctic Oil and Gas Drilling. Is Putin Preparing to Come and Take It?
Will President Obama’s new drilling policy give the Arctic over to Russian domination? The anger, outrage and frustration in Alaska are palpable after the president… Read More
EnergyCommentary
3 Reasons to Dismiss EPA’s Latest Excuse on Keystone XL
One would think you can beat a dead horse only so many times. Using low oil prices this time, the Environmental Protection Agency is urging… Read More
EnergyCommentary
On UN’s ‘Hottest Year on Record’ Claim, Context is Key
Today, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization repeated the results it previewed in December and declared 2014 the “hottest year on record.” As with the December… Read More
Senate Approves Keystone: Up to Obama to Decide If America Is Open for Business
On January 29, the Senate passed S. 1, the first bill of the 114th Congress, approving the Keystone XL Pipeline by a 62–36 margin, including… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama’s Drilling Ban in Alaska Isn’t About Saving Polar Bears. It’s About His Radical Agenda
It was just recently that President Obama took credit for falling gas prices in his State of the Union address, and already he is sticking… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Progress Made on Nuclear Waste Management
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) yesterday completed the last two of five volumes in its safety evaluation report on a nuclear waste repository at Yucca… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Cartoon: Obama’s Environmental Footprint
Heritage Foundation’s Nick Loris, whose work focuses on energy policy, weighed in earlier this week: The Obama administration is calling on Congress to designate more… Read More
Repealing the Jones Act: Good for Energy, Great for America
On January 13, Senator John McCain (R–AZ) filed an amendment to S. 1, the Keystone XL Pipeline Act, that would repeal part of a 95-year-old… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Championing Regulation, EPA Brings More ‘Extreme’ to the X Games
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy traveled to the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. last week to raise awareness of climate change and its… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Obama’s Allowing More Drilling, But It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
One step forward, two steps back. That sums up the Obama administration’s proposed lease plan for oil and natural gas drilling. The proposal includes the… Read More
