Wasteful Spending Programs at the Department of Energy
With the next budget battle looming, there will be attempts to undo sequestration, and proponents of a bloated budget will argue that very little if… Read More
The Good and the Bad in the Shaheen–Portman Efficiency Bill
Many of the provisions in the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, an energy-efficiency bill introduced by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D–NH) and Rob Portman (R–OH),… Read More
EPA Increasingly Neglects States’ Concerns with Regulations
A new report from the Republican Environmental and Public Works staff details how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is damaging the relationship and effectiveness of… Read More
Generating German Energy Poverty
What began as a daring endeavor to bring Germans more renewable energy and wean the country off nuclear energy by 2022 has turned German energy… Read More
Carbon Regulation: Time for America to Learn from Australia’s Mistake
Australia’s new Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who won a landslide victory earlier this month, vowed to promptly scrap the nation’s tax on carbon emissions. He… Read More
EPA’s New CO2 Regulations: Time for Congress to Step Up
“Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s… Read More
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Scrutinizing the Social Cost of Carbon: Comment to the Energy Department
On September 16, Heritage analysts David Kreutzer and Kevin Dayaratna sent a request to the Department of Energy requesting that a recent rule incorporating an… Read More
Concerns over the Social Cost of Carbon
The following comment was submitted to the Department of Energy by Nicolas Loris. U.S. Department of Energy, Building Technologies Program Mailstop EE-2J, Room 1J-018 1000… Read More
Why DOE Is Wasting $45 Million of Your Money
Last week we wrote about the Department of Energy (DOE) wastefully spending $45 million in taxpayer dollars on advanced transportation technologies. The federal government spending… Read More
What’s Another $45 Million at the Energy Department?
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced it is spending $45 million of taxpayer money for 38 different projects for advanced transportation technologies. But private companies… Read More
Energy: As Mexico Finally Enters the 21st Century, Obama Parties Like It’s 1938
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto recently announced the first, very timid steps to take Mexico’s energy sector—famously nationalized in 1938 by then-President Lázaro Cárdenas—forward into… Read More
Fueling Cronyism
No one knows how much ethanol Americans would use if the fuel didn’t receive preferential treatment. Would we use any at all? We do know… Read More
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Court Kicks Yucca Mountain Review Back in Motion
Despite the politics surrounding Yucca Mountain and the Obama Administration’s policy to terminate the project, a federal court today held the executive branch to its… Read More
Subsidies and Taxes Complicate the Future of Nuclear Power
Rising maintenance costs and a sharp decrease in natural gas prices have put the future of some nuclear power plants into question. But other plants… Read More
Murkowski Pushes for Natural Gas Exports
The Department of Energy (DOE) approved its third application to export natural gas a day after Senator Lisa Murkowski (R–AK) released a white paper calling… Read More
Wind Power: Only When the Wind Blows and the Subsidies Flow
Wind turbines produce power only when the wind is blowing. But perhaps more importantly, wind production builds only when the subsidies are flowing. The wind… Read More
House Pushes Back Against White House Carbon Measures
Before the House dismissed for August recess, it sent two important messages related to regulating (or not) carbon dioxide. The House decisively passed an amendment… Read More
As Commodities Prices Fall, Economic Freedom Should Rise
New reports are hinting that an end to the decade-long run-up of the prices of commodities prices is here. For years, emerging markets such as… Read More
NYC Soda Ban Shot Down Again: Bad Day for the Food Police
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other self-appointed nutrition czars are probably very upset. The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously… Read More
Obama on Infrastructure: Wrong Again on Government “Investments”
In yet another summer speech on the economy yesterday, President Obama trotted out familiar tax-and-spend ideas, this time pairing his latest call for a tax… Read More
EnergyNews
Thank You, George Mitchell, for Fracking
George P. Mitchell passed away on Friday, July 26, leaving behind a legacy as the man who unlocked America’s vast oil and natural gas shale… Read More
EnergyNews
Keystone XL Jobs vs. Subsidized Green Jobs
President Obama criticized the job estimate numbers from the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in an interview with The New York Times over the… Read More
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Georgia Leader Beats Drum for Nuclear Energy
Georgia is riding a wave of new nuclear energy that, five years ago, many thought would be more crowded by now. Georgia Public Services Commissioner Tim… Read More
Green Jobs: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. President
In his speech at Knox College, President Obama laid out his plan for the Detroitification of America: higher taxes, higher spending, increased minimum wages, more… Read More
Energy “Race to the Top” Is a Race to the Trough
Advocacy groups are pushing to include the State Energy Race to the Top Initiative Act of 2013 legislation as an amendment to the Shaheen–Portman… Read More
Keystone Pipeline: Shaheen–Portman Bill the Wrong Place for a Keystone Amendment
The Heritage Foundation has already made the case that the Shaheen–Portman energy efficiency bill promises only more federal intervention and corporate welfare. Adding an amendment… Read More
Climate Change: What’s Happening?
President Obama reiterated his Administration’s commitment to addressing climate change in his Galesburg speech today, calling carbon dioxide “dangerous carbon pollution.” But just how dangerous… Read More
Great Green Fleet = Big Red Ink
It seems that Washington has a mandate, subsidy, or loan program for every bad idea. Today’s example is military biofuels. Just this spring, the Defense… Read More
Coal Ash Bill Empowers States
The House will soon consider Representative David McKinley’s (R–WV) Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act (H.R. 2218), which would block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)… Read More
Australia’s Carbon Policy: Just Do Something
At this time last year, the Australian government began collecting the world’s most expensive carbon tax. A year later, it seems unanimous among Australia’s two… Read More
