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By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Full PDF Report Here Administration’s Power Plan Independent analysts continue to provide details of the Obama Administration’s politically named “Clean Power Plan” (CPP). These studies make clear that the only forms of new electrical power generation the administration considers “clean” are solar and wind. Electric […]
Scott Greenberg | Tax Foundation Every public policy benefits some people more than others – and energy policy is no exception. A new paper from Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis, two professors at UC Berkeley, examines which taxpayers benefit most from tax credits for clean energy: “Since 2006, U.S. households have received more than $18 billion […]
Robert P Murphy | IER Julian Morris has produced a detailed study for Reason that explores the costs and benefits of carbon dioxide emissions. Morris concludes with the provocative claim that the weight of evidence suggests federal agencies should ignore carbon dioxide emissions when evaluating regulations, because on balance the “positive externalities” from enhanced agricultural […]
Last November, President Obama made a climate deal with China, pledging that the United States would reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 and in turn that China would peak its carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and increase the non-fossil fuel share of all energy to around […]
Regulation is EPA’s Latest Effort to Control America’s Energy Production WASHINGTON — Institute for Energy Research President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement on the Obama administration’s methane regulations: “President Obama’s methane regulations are a solution in search of a problem. Methane is essentially natural gas, a valuable product that provides heat and electricity to millions of American families […]
Caroline Bruff | Institute for Energy Research The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims the finalized “Clean Power Plan” will have climate and health benefits for Americans worth tens of billions of dollars and save thousands of lives per year. Despite the rise in electricity prices that will result from the implementation of this rule, the agency […]
Mark Febrizio |Institute for Energy Research Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its regulations on carbon dioxide emissions for existing electricity generating units, which the agency calls the “Clean Power Plan.” EPA claims the alleged benefits of the rule significantly outweigh the costs, and is requesting that states submit plans to implement […]
Ken Haapala |Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) The New Plan: “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), On August 3, the Obama Administration announced its plan tocontrol the production of electricity in the US in the name of protecting the planet from human-caused climate change, even though climate change has been […]
Matthew Vadum | FRONTPAGEMAG How Obama is using cloak-and-dagger techniques to hide an unpopular, dangerous policy from the public. President Obama is surreptitiously colluding with radical anti-growth environmentalists to force ideologically driven carbon-emission controls on the energy industry that will devastate the U.S. economy, congressional investigators have discovered. As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drew […]
by Michael Snyder Is Barack Obama trying to kill the economy on purpose? On Sunday, we learned that Obama is imposing a nationwide 32 percent carbon dioxide emission reduction from 2005 levels by the year 2030. When it was first proposed last year, Obama’s plan called for a 30 percent reduction, but the final version […]
This TWTW is very brief. It focuses on two recent articles by S. Fred Singer of scientific importance: 1) Editor of Science Magazine Should Resign!; and 2) A Paradigm Change: Re-directing public concern from Global Warming to Global Cooling, and Geo-Engineering: Overcoming a Future Ice Age. The normal TWTW will resume next week. We […]
The age of electrification across the transportation sector, the solar panel revolution, and Tesla’s battery gigafactory are igniting a battle for the cheapest battery. That will transform lithium into a boom-time mineral and the hottest commodity on the energy investor’s radar. It has been easy to take lithium for granted. This wonder mineral is the […]