Earth Day: People Are Our Most Precious Resource
Google is celebrating Earth Day with a doodle of sunny skies, mountain peaks, hills, and blue waters. Sure, it’s appropriate to celebrate this wonderful planet… Read More
With Climate Change Science Unsettled, a Carbon Tax is Even More Useless
Reuters’s environment correspondent Alister Doyle provides even more fodder for why a carbon (energy) tax or the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gas… Read More
Energy Secretary Nominee Faces Tough Natural Gas Decision
If confirmed as the next Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Dr. Ernest Moniz will take over an agency that has increasingly injected itself into making… Read More
Morning Bell: Jim DeMint’s First Day As Heritage President
Dear patriots, Today is my first full day as president of The Heritage Foundation, and the first thing I want to do is thank my… Read More
$1.2 Billion in Cash Goes to Energy Projects, Despite Sequestration
Despite a fiscal cliff and sequestration worries, more than $1.2 billion in cash payments for energy projects (in lieu of tax credits) have been issued… Read More
Energy News
New EPA Regulations Mean Higher Gas Prices
It’s no secret that the White House, regardless of Administration, releases unpopular news on Friday afternoons. On the popular television drama West Wing, the fictional… Read More
Japan’s Green Initiative Drowns in Oil
The government picking winners and losers is bad for any economy. But it also often leads to the opposite of the intended result. Take a… Read More
Environmentalists and Energy Experts Working Together for Fracking Solutions?
Saving the environment and producing shale oil and gas by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) are not mutually exclusive; however, it seems the two sides have been… Read More
Obama Administration Plans to Spend $150 Million for Green Energy Projects (Because It’s Worked So Well Before)
Just what America needs: More taxpayer-funded green energy projects. The Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service released plans to re-allocate more… Read More
Carbon Tax: Still a Bad Idea
An anti-carbon tax amendment will likely be considered as the Senate attempts to pass its first budget in four years. While it has been made… Read More
Carbon Tax: Australia’s Experience Is a Chance for the U.S. to Get It Right
“This is the most effective and efficient way to drive innovation to find better, less-polluting ways of producing power, goods and services,” Australian Treasurer Wayne… Read More
DOE Sitting on Taxpayer Dollars Due to Negative Publicity
Despite billions of dollars in unused loan authority remaining under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office, negative publicity surrounding the loan guarantee programs… Read More
Carbon Tax: House Republicans and Policy Groups Join Forces
House Republicans and various policy groups gathered on Capitol Hill this week to oppose a tax on carbon. “This is not a carbon tax,” said… Read More
Profitable or Not, Loan Guarantee Program Is a Failure
Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) is receiving criticism for including two solar-generation projects in his budget plan as “failed” projects despite the fact that Mesquite Solar… Read More
Heritage Experts’ Reaction to Senate Continuing Resolution
The massive spending bill, or continuing resolution, released by the Senate this week continues spending on programs which are inappropriate or wasteful and fails to… Read More
Keystone XL: Parallels to the Alaska Pipeline
As the U.S. commemorates the 40th anniversary of passage of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Authorization Act of 1973, it is worth remembering the challenges the project… Read More
The EPA: An Impediment to Economic Recovery
The rapid pace and severity of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on the energy sector during the past four years illustrates an ongoing problem—the government’s… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Administration Buries Good News on Keystone Pipeline
In Washington, a presidential Administration releases news it doesn’t like at 5 p.m. on Fridays. So it pays to pay attention when everyone is leaving… Read More
Keystone XL Pipeline Déjà vu
Today the State Department released yet another positive environmental review for the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline project. The State Department approved the… Read More
Bankruptcy Filings Allege Abound Solar Aware of Defective Panels
Recent filings by a customer of bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar allege the company knew its panels were defective before the company collapsed last… Read More
Department of Energy: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
President Obama is touring the country and campaigning against the spending cuts under sequestration, such as cuts to energy research. The Department of Energy (DOE)… Read More
Climate Protestors Rally Against Keystone XL Pipeline
Supporters of President Obama’s continued obstruction of the Keystone XL pipeline and more government controls to prevent climate change attended a “Forward on Climate” rally… Read More
Limiting Fracking Limits Affordable Energy and Jobs
Europe is once again teaching America a lesson in what not to do on energy policy. A resolution Germany’s upper house passed last week makes… Read More
Obama Has NOT Doubled the Nation’s Fuel Economy
President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night was full of good intentions, bad policy, and suspect claims. He said, for example, that “We… Read More
Morning Bell: Heritage Experts Analyze the State of the Union
President Barack Obama laid out an ambitious agenda last night. Here are some highlights of our experts’ analysis of his claims, his plans, and his… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Bogus State of the Union Promises
Tonight, the American people will be watching President Obama’s fifth State of the Union address. How has he done on his promises over the past… Read More
Morning Bell: Get the Federal Government Out of the Natural Gas Business
In North Dakota, people have jobs. That state led the nation in job creation last year, and its unemployment rate is only 3.2 percent (compared… Read More
EnergyNews
Free-Market Opportunities Propel North Dakota to Top Job Creator
North Dakota led the nation in job creation in 2012, according to a new report released by Gallup. The state has an unemployment rate of… Read More
U.S. Beating China in Race for Clean Skies
A cloud of photochemical smog from China drifted into Japan this week. The story highlights the fact that air pollution in China is getting worse—despite… Read More
Ethanol Mandate Leads to Violence, Social Unrest
The conversion of corn to ethanol has contributed to a doubling in global food prices since 2005, according to a report by the New England… Read More
