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IER | Institute for Energy Research Most modelers calibrate their base cases to the Energy Information Administration (EIA)’s most recent Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) when conducting analyses of energy issues. In fact, since EIA is the premier energy information source for the federal government, it would make sense that agencies turn to their expertise and […]
IER According to a recent study by NERA Economic Consulting, EPA’s regulation of carbon dioxide from power plants, the so-called “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), will hike electricity prices in all 47 states that are subject to the regulation. Of those 47 states, 41 states are projected to see double-digit “peak” electricity price increases and 28 […]
File Photo: Wind Turbines[/caption] Dean Chambers A court ruling last week might be the end of the line for a large wind energy project was slated to be constructed near Sen. Harry Reid’s home town of Searchlight, Nevada. The project may not be constructed, after being stopped by a federal court ruling last week, in […]
Robert P Murphy | IER Back in May, I warned IER readers of just how much money officials from the United Nations wanted to wring from hapless Western taxpayers at the upcoming “climate talks” in Paris. A recent Politico story quotes the UN’s top climate change official to confirm my alarm bells. Americans need to be […]
City Journal New York’s attorney general launches a bid to criminalize skepticism. [caption id="attachment_49906" align="alignleft" width="260"] New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman[/caption] Few citizens would include “climate change” among New York State’s top law-enforcement priorities. Few, that is, except the one citizen who happens to be New York’s attorney general: Eric Schneiderman. On […]
Technocracy News The core stakeholders who will orchestrate the Paris 2015 Climate Change Summit are out in full force to froth the brew of anti-carbon rhetoric. There is no better example of what will be said than what has already been said by the Carbon Tracker Initiative based in London. First, they call for a “carbon […]
IER China plans to build over 100 nuclear reactors in the next decade, according to the country’s latest five year plan. The government will invest over $100 billion to construct six to eight nuclear reactors annually between now and 2030. By 2020, China should have 58 gigawatts of nuclear capacity.[i] By 2050, China’s nuclear power should exceed […]
We should lead from behind – instead of with brains in our behinds – on this new Treaty of Paris Paul Driessen What an unpalatable irony. The 1783 Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War and created the United States. The 2015 Treaty of Paris could end what’s left of our democratic USA – and […]
Robert P Murphy | IER In articles here at IER and at other sites, I have previously explained some of the “unintended consequences” of popular environmental regulations. A new paper from Resources for the Future (RFF) documents another quirk of popular regulations that will irk their supporters: Under reasonable assumptions, rate-based regulations such as a […]
Michael Snyder Over the past 30 days, major floods have hit the east coast, the west coast and now the middle part of the country. So why is this happening? Why is the U.S. being hit by so many catastrophic weather events all of a sudden? During the past month flooding has caused billions of […]
By Patrick Wood | Technocracy News Every society in history has been hinged on compatible systems of social structure, economics and politics. And, every unique society is regulated by a compatible legal system that settles all disputes between its citizens. In the Western world and especially in America, this is revered as the “Rule […]
Patrick Wood, Sept. 30, 2015 The United Nations intends to replace Capitalism and Free Enterprise with its Green Economy, or Sustainable Development. However, its concepts of development and economy are deeply flawed and reminiscent of fringe ideas from the Great Depression era. (For a full discussion of Technocracy in the 1930s, see Technocracy Rising: The Trojan […]