New national survey finds that 70% of Americans oppose new energy taxes to combat global warming IER President: “The American people are smarter than the political class in Washington think – they see this tragic accident playing out in the Gulf, and are overwhelmingly opposed to the Obama Administration’s plan to capitalize on it politically [...]

As if disregarding the will of the American people on the health care bill wasn’t enough, the Administration today announced that Americans don’t make the “proper” choices about the cars they drive. That might sound like an April Fool’s joke, but the Administration isn’t kidding. Instead of allowing the American people to choose the cars [...]

Photo: Flickr user afsart WASHINGTON – Citing the intransigence of Mother Earth and the increasingly irreconcilable differences between the dictates of U.S. energy policy and the ethereal realities of the celestial universe, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) announced today a first-of-its-kind legal effort that, in cooperation with the Sierra Club and the American Wind [...]

On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly released their annual report on air quality trends.  You would never know it from picking up a newspaper or reading news websites, but the report contains great news. Air quality in the United States has dramatically improved and, according to all indicators, it will continue to improve. [...]

The Obama Administration’s recently released “Economic Report of the President” devoted an entire chapter to “Transforming the Energy Sector and Addressing Climate Change” [.pdf]. Whenever the government promises to transform an entire sector of the economy, we know to watch out. Upon a simple reading it is obvious that the president’s fancy economic rhetoric doesn’t [...]

Master of His Own Domain: President Declares Government Will Slash Emissions over Next Decade; Isn’t Quite As Clear Who Will Pay For it Washington, DC – Earlier this morning, President Obama promised that over the next 10 years, the federal government will reduce its carbon emissions by 28 percent – and issued an executive order [...]

Even though the climate change PR machines are spinning away in the aftermath of Copenhagen’s COP 15, a few of the Copenhagen Accord’s more troubling consequences are not getting the attention they deserve.    Senator McCain called “the agreement to take note of the accord” reached by the United States and a handful of developed nations [...]

Washington, DC – Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued the following statement in light of the announcement from Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who vaguely outlined their new global warming legislation earlier today: “What was offered today was nothing more than more of [...]

American families, U.S. competitiveness shortchanged by shortsighted proposal Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed a global warming bill. Following the panel’s vote, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the non-partisan, pro-market Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued this statement: “The winners today are rent-seeking corporations, Washington special interests and [...]

Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer have yet again released a new version of their cap-and-trade energy tax bill. Since the last version was released, the bill has grown by another 102 pages and now tips the scales at 923 pages. Unlike previous versions, this one spells out which groups are politically-favored enough to receive [...]