Obama’s Keystone XL Indecision Already Costing Jobs
It didn’t take long for President Obama’s delaying of the Keystone XL pipeline to start having disastrous economic consequences. Fox 16 reports from Little Rock,… Read More
Navy Buys Biofuels for $15 Per Gallon From Stimulus-Linked Firm
A California company has been hired to provide 450,000 gallons of advanced biofuels to the U.S. Navy – the “single largest purchase of biofuel in… Read More
Gone with the Wind Subsidies
The year 2012 marks a monumental yet depressing milestone for the wind energy industry: 20 years of tax credits. The federal renewable energy production tax… Read More
Feed-in Tariffs: Just Another Renewable Energy Subsidy
Another day, another new subsidy for renewable energy. This time it’s a feed-in tariff, as Senator Dianne Feinstein (D–CA) recently inserted language supporting feed-in tariffs… Read More
And That’s Why You Don’t Give Subsidies
This past April, when Members of Congress introduced the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions (NATGAS) Act that provides preferential tax treatment to subsidize… Read More
Huntsman Rejects ‘Unilateral Disarmament’ to Combat Global Warming
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman clarified his position on how policymakers should deal with climate change. In a speech Tuesday at The Heritage Foundation he… Read More
U.N. Climate Talks: Wealth Redistribution and a New Tax, Too
Another year, another hopeless climate talk. This time, the annual U.N. climate change summit is taking place in Durban, South Africa. It looks painfully like… Read More
EPA to Raise Electricity Prices, Risk Blackouts
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seemingly undeterred by the slow economic recovery, is marching ahead with air pollution regulations that would increase electricity prices, raise… Read More
EPA: Drinking Water in Dimock, PA Uncontaminated by Fracking
Federal authorities have ruled that the drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania, which some claimed had been contaminated by nearby natural gas drilling efforts, is safe… Read More
Climategate II: New Leaked Emails Cast Doubt on Climate Change
Another round of leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Climatic Research Unit have surfaced, once again illustrating why governments should not be… Read More
Government Dole for Grumpy Trolls? Time to End Energy Subsidies
The Grumpy Troll Restaurant and Brewpub is one of over 22,000 companies that received $16,000 cash grants from the federal government to install solar panels… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Keeps Turning His Back on Jobs
This week, President Obama is again set to make a pitch for his latest plan to stimulate the economy, but meanwhile he is turning his… Read More
Delay, Baby, Delay: Obama Decision Puts Up to 200k Jobs on Hold
First, it was 20,000 jobs the Obama Administration delayed by punting a decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring 700,000 barrels of… Read More
Canada: U.S. Delaying Pipelines Means We’ll Go Elsewhere
Canada exports almost all of its energy to the United States, but because of resistance from the Obama Administration to approving the construction of the… Read More
Morning Bell: How President Obama Killed Thousands of Jobs
If Americans needed any further proof that the Obama Administration is one of the most political on record, or that, for all the recent demagoguing,… Read More
Obama Delays Keystone Pipeline: Delays Jobs and Energy, Too
The Obama Administration announced it would delay the construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline that would bring in more than 700,000 barrels of… Read More
Offshore Drilling Plan Lacks Something: More Drilling
Yesterday, the Department of Interior released its new five-year offshore drilling plan. Unfortunately, the program is far less expansive when it comes to opening areas… Read More
Small Town Bucks the Economic Trend with Energy Production
As goes Williston, North Dakota, so goes the nation? That’s probably not a phrase you’ve heard before, but if we opened access to our domestic… Read More
Morning Bell: Uncle Sam Is No Venture Capitalist
It’s yet another inauspicious announcement the Obama Administration didn’t want you to hear. Late on Friday, the White House announced that it ordered an independent… Read More
Energy News
Energy Production = Deficit Reduction
Today, the House Natural Resources Committee released its list of recommendations to the deficit reduction super committee. Their recommendations would go a long way to… Read More
Pollution Costs and GDP
Instead of the intellectual vandalism that typifies too much of Paul Krugman’s writing, it would be more useful if he returned to writing about economics…with… Read More
Obama’s Economic Advisers Warned of Green Jobs Agenda’s Pitfalls
A pair of years-old anecdotes, recently revisited, show that top economists in the White House and Obama’s cabinet expressed serious doubts about the White House’s… Read More
EPA’s CO2 Regulations are What’s “Comically Wrong”
The Environmental Protection Agency called a Daily Caller report “comically wrong” this morning. That is an interesting analysis given that the EPA’s hideously bad global… Read More
Heritage Libertad Radio: Rep. Farenthold, EPA and Price Controls
In case you missed it, make sure you listen to last week’s Heritage Libertad Radio Show. Listen in Spanish or English. The Spanish show kicks… Read More
Obama’s Attack on Big Oil: Fair Share or Targeted Tax Hike?
President Obama says he wants big corporations, including oil companies, to pay their “fair share” in taxes. His deficit reduction plan includes eliminating what he… Read More
Texas Coal Company Announces 500 Layoffs, Sues to Block EPA Regulation
It was sadly ironic that Texas energy company Luminant announced it would lay off 500 employees on the same morning that President Obama unveiled legislation… Read More
‘Drilling = Jobs’: Congressman’s Simple Message Falls on Deaf Ears
During the president’s Thursday speech on his new jobs proposal (which, as of yet, does not actually exist on paper), Rep. Jeff Landry, a Republican… Read More
20 Drilling Rigs in Jeopardy of Leaving Gulf Over Permit Delays, Report Warns
If the pace of Gulf oil drilling permit awards does not increase, as many as 20 drilling rigs could soon leave the Gulf, a major… Read More
Solyndra to Solar City: Lesson Not Learned in Green Energy Loan
Basking in the glow from the $535 million fire left when Solyndra crashed and burned, the Department of Energy is ready to subsidize additional hundreds… Read More
Report: Increased Energy Production Would Boost Jobs, Federal Revenue
Energy research firm Wood Mackenzie released a report on Wednesday that lends weight to arguments for greater energy exploration and production in the United States…. Read More
