July 27, 2009
The Obama Administration and European governments continue to lobby developing countries, such as India and China, to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. But India and China reject these calls because they understand that artificial restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions will harm their economies.
During her recent visit, India’s Environment Minister reminded Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...]
June 30, 2009
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June 30, 2009
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Bradley: Climate Bill a Public Policy Abomination
IER’s Robert Bradley to Testify at Houston Energy Summit
HOUSTON – Institute for Energy Research (IER) CEO Robert Bradley will deliver testimony and answer questions at tomorrow’s Texas Energy Summit, a conference Congressmen Barton, Culberson, Sessions, and Olsen will hold [...]
June 24, 2009
Later this week, the U.S. House will take up the Waxman-Markey global warming bill, the centerpiece of which is a cap and trade program that advocates argue will reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The bill features a remarkably aggressive timetable, one that would force businesses to cut emissions by 17% (relative to the 2005 baseline) [...]
June 23, 2009
On Monday, Representatives Waxman and Markey released yet another version of their far-reaching energy tax bill. The bill has now grown to 1201 pages and is available here.
This will not the be the last version of this bill. Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson previously opposed the bill and sought some concessions to benefit farmers. But [...]
May 21, 2009
President Obama’s automobile choice shows that he cares about features other than fuel economy, so why is he forcing the American people to choose fuel economy first and foremost?
When President Obama took office, he got a new car—an 8 mile-per-gallon custom Cadillac limousine. The reason his car gets such poor fuel economy is that it [...]
May 18, 2009
***Update: A few minutes before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s markup of the bill, Representative Waxman released a new 946-page Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. The text is available here. ***
***Second Update: The House Energy and Commerce Committee have released a summary of the changes in the Amendment in the Nature [...]
March 31, 2009
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March 31, 2009
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Chris Tucker 202.346.8825
Running of the Bull: U.S. “Green Jobs” Rhetoric Runs Smack Dab Into Hard Lessons From Spain
New Report Finds “Green Jobs” Spending Cost Spain Hundreds of Thousands of Real Jobs, Decades in Lost Opportunity
WASHINGTON, DC – As evidence continues to mount of the potential for a “green jobs”-focused [...]
March 31, 2009
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March 31, 2009
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Road to Serfdom: Climate Bill Envisions Future with Less Energy, Fewer Jobs, Worse Economy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Institute for Energy Research president Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement today after the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee formally released a draft of legislation that seeks [...]
March 13, 2009
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March 13, 2009
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Cap and Trade: All Pain, No Gain for Consumers, Economy, Environment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the heels of two hearings in the House today on how an economy-wide cap and trade program might affect working-class American families, Institute for Energy Research (IER) released an analysis that demonstrates that lawmakers’ [...]
March 12, 2009
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The most popular way to regulate carbon dioxide emissions is through a cap and trade program. President Obama and many policymakers support some form of this regulatory policy. Cap and trade aims to cap emissions of carbon dioxide at a politically-determined level and then have the users and producers of oil, coal, and [...]