Washington, DC – This afternoon Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), released an economic analysis of the American Power Act (APA) – a piece of legislation designed to change consumer behavior by taxing 85 percent of the energy consumed in the United States in an attempt [...]

Photo: Harry Hamburg/Associated Press Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman have finally released their cap-and-trade energy tax bill. Like the Kerry-Boxer energy tax bill and Waxman-Markey energy tax bill, this is shaping up to be incredibly costly and restrictive of Americans’ energy freedom. All cap-and-trade bills drive up the cost of energy and harm the [...]

Washington, DC – With Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) set to introduce their much awaited global warming legislation later this week, the Institute for Energy Research compiled and defined a list of terms expected to be included. It is important to remember that the principal behind the KGL approach [...]

Sensing that the public is very suspicious of massive new taxes levied on energy, the supporters of “carbon pricing” continue to tweak their messaging. Although Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman (KGL) have yet to formally introduce their version of a cap-and-trade bill, they have informally shared some of its presumed components. One of the distinguishing [...]

“Pricing Carbon” is a National Energy Tax that Will Cripple Economic Recovery Washington, DC – Tax Day is an annual reminder to the many Americans that pay income taxes of just how much of our hard-earned money goes into the government’s pocket. But as we mark this annual “holiday,” the Institute for Energy Research would [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2009 CONTACT: Laura Henderson (202) 621-2951 WASHINGTON, D.C. – As our federal lawmakers continue to lay the groundwork to regulate and tax carbon, Institute for Energy Research (IER) today released two studies that analyze the economic impact that two of these proposals would have: the carbon tax and the so-called [...]

Download as PDF Energy makes modern society possible. It lights the night, heats our homes, powers our entertainment, and most importantly, it helps us conserve the ultimate non-renewable resource—time. Energy amplifies our ability to do work. Machines help autoworkers assemble cars, power tools help construction workers build our homes, gasoline-powered automobiles help us take care [...]

For the third time in the past 5 months The Washington Post has called for new taxes on energy. This time the Post is calling for a carbon tax because cap-and-trade regimes for greenhouse gas emissions are flawed. According to the Post: Cap-and-trade regimes have advantages, notably the ability to set a limit on emissions [...]

President Obama has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to swiftly decide whether or not it will waive federal law and allow California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. EPA is very likely to grant the waiver enabling California to institute new and costly regulations. The regulations amount to a stealth carbon tax of at [...]