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 [...]

Washington, DC – With President Obama set to announce tougher fuel economy standards by way of executive order this morning, the Institute for Energy Research has compiled a list of simple, straight forward questions for the President to answer on this topic. Mr. President, according to your own Environmental Protection Agency, these standards will have [...]

Washington, DC – Leading up to today’s (April 28, 2010) House Energy and Environment subcommittee hearing entitled “Clean Energy Polices That Reduce Our Dependence on Oil,” the panel’s staff issued a memorandum outlining the subject matter to be covered at the hearing. The non-partisan Institute for Energy Research (IER) issued the following “fact check” on [...]

Washington, DC – In response to today’s announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the Agency’s unelected bureaucrats will criminalize carbon in less than a year, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the nonpartisan Institute for Energy Research (IER) issued the following statement: “This regulation will increase the cost of doing business in America, period. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4 , 2009 CONTACT: Laura Henderson 202.621.2951 Patrick Creighton 202.621.2947 Renewable Electricity Mandate: Pay More For Less WASHINGTON—In advance of a Senate Energy Committee hearing on the renewable electricity mandate (REM), the Institute for Energy Research (IER) released the following fact sheet: A National REM Would Increase the Cost of Electricity: [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2009 CONTACT: Laura Henderson 202.621.2951 Obama Motors: Costly, Bureaucratic, and Pointless WASHINGTON—In response to President Obama’s newly introduced mile-per-gallon fuel mandate, Institute for Energy Research President Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement: “It is overwhelming to consider the ways this new mandate will harm the American economy. This stealth [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2009 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 Chris Tucker (202) 346-8825 IER: President’s Adoption of California Model on Energy Means Higher Costs, Fewer Jobs for Rest of America Washington, DC – Institute for Energy Research (IER) president Thomas J. Pyle today issued the following statement on President Obama’s decision to allow [...]

GREEN JOBS: Fact or Fiction? An Assessment of the Literature January 2009 By Robert Michaels and Robert P. Murphy Download as PDF Introduction and Executive Summary I. Green Recovery, Center for American Progress II. Job Opportunities for the Green Economy, Political Economy Research Institute III. Current and Potential Green Jobs in the U.S. Economy, Global [...]