What Obama Didn’t Say
President Obama keeps trying to make our electric bills skyrocket. Now he’s seized on the BP fiasco as an excuse to do it. According to Obama, the Gulf of Mexico gusher proves we need billions more to...
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Lame Policy for Lame Duck
It seems that many in Washington had their books upside down when they studied economics. In the midst of a serious recession, they are proposing to jack up income tax rates, which would add hundreds...
View ArticleThe Renewable Electricity Standard Game Plan
This week, National Journal hosted an energy, environment, and economic policy summit on the Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). Participants included Sens. Mark Begich (D-AK) and Sam Brownback...
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Carbon Tax: Won’t Reduce Deficit or Temperature
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report that should be a cause for concern to all who believe in limited government. In it, CRS argues that a new tax on carbon could cut the deficit...
View ArticleTop 10 Heritage Videos of 2012
Videos once again played an important role in 2012 as campaigns, policy organizations and individuals sought ways to break through the saturated media environment with short, clever and informational...
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The EPA: An Impediment to Economic Recovery
ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI/Newscom 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...
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With Climate Change Science Unsettled, a Carbon Tax is Even More Useless
Kurt Strazdins KRT/Newscom 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...
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Congressional Budget Office Looks at a Carbon Tax
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its report on the impact of a carbon tax. (Disclaimer: I provided comments to the CBO on a draft of the report, earlier this year.) The economic...
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Previewing President Obama’s Climate Change Speech
Pat Benic/UPI/Newscom When Congress rejected a cap-and-trade proposal to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, a frustrated President said that cap and trade was only one way of...
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Climate Change: White House Confuses Myths with Realities
Newscom Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the President for energy and climate change, took to the White House blog to defend the Administration’s climate-change plan in a “myths vs. reality” post....
View ArticleEliminate Advanced Manufacturing and Alternative Fuel Programs
There are sound market ideas that address issues of high energy prices. Throwing money at corporations is not one of them. The House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations released its report...
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Carbon Tax: Van Hollen’s Latest Version
Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). (Photo: Bill Clark/Roll Call Photos/Newscom) Representative Chris Van Hollen (D–MD) is expected to soon introduce a new rendition of his cap-and-dividend carbon...
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House Pushes Back Against White House Carbon Measures
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-PA. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Photos/Newscom) Before the House dismissed for August recess, it sent two important messages related to regulating (or not) carbon dioxide. The...
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EPA’s New CO2 Regulations: Time for Congress to Step Up
Newscom “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 needed.” That gem came from outside White House adviser Daniel...
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The Good and the Bad in the Shaheen–Portman Efficiency Bill
Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Newscom 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...
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EPA Science Advisers Raise Concerns over Climate Regulations
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) planned greenhouse gas regulations for both new and existing power plants would effectively act as a bureaucratically...
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How the EPA Plans to Kill Jobs and Reduce Your Income
How’s your heating bill? If you feel like you’re not paying enough, you’re in luck. President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pushing new regulations on power plants—regulations that...
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Time to Stock Up on Incandescent Bulbs Before They Go Out Permanently
If your New Year’s resolution is to change your light bulbs, don’t worry—the federal government’s here to help. Beginning January 1, 2014, the federal government will ban the use of 60-watt and 40-watt...
View ArticleUnplugged: Administration’s Energy Policies Don’t Match Its Own Rhetoric
On Wednesday in Brussels, Secretary of State John Kerry pledged American leadership in making it more difficult for energy to be used as a geopolitical weapon. However, the Obama Administration’s...
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