FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 346-8826 Chris Tucker (202) 346-8825 IER CEO: Obama Energy Plan Resurrects Malthusian ‘Limits to Growth,’ Enron ‘Green’ Energy Plays HOUSTON – History warns against the energy plan proposed by President-elect Barack Obama, according to a new book written by the CEO and founder of the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 11, 2008 CONTACT: Charlotte Baker Interviews@FactsOnEnergy.org IER Encourages CARB to Consider Economic Implications of AB 32 CARB Charges Staff to Revise Economic Analysis by December 2009 Washington, DC – This week the California Air Resources Board formally adopted its Scoping Plan for AB 32 that would initiate a series of drastic [...]

Synopsis (104KB) Complete Analysis (60KB) The following comparison of Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s energy and environmental plans comes from the statements of their plans on their official web sites. The text first indicates what the respective plans say on each topic, and then provides IER’s analysis of each topic within the program. Table of [...]

In July, the Environmental Protection Agency announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.[1] This is likely the largest, most far-reaching regulation ever. The threshold test for EPA to move forward with this far-reaching regulation is whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases “endanger human health [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 16, 2008 CONTACT: Thomas Pyle – 202.621.2952 CARB’s AB 32 Scoping Plan Will Cripple California’s Economy While not Helping the Environment Washington, DC – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Scoping Plan for AB 32, the “California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,” calling for a reduction in greenhouse [...]

On Friday, October 3, the California Air Resources Board is scheduled to formally release its Scoping Plan pursuant to AB 32, the “California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.” AB 32 calls for the state of California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. One of the primary means to achieve [...]

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 11, 2008 CONTACT: Brian Kennedy (202) 434-8200 EPA Proposal the most sweeping, pervasive in history Washington, D.C. - The Institute for Energy Research (IER) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) on carbon.  IER Director of State Affairs Dan [...]

PDF version (192KB) “An unprecedented expansion of EPA authority.” – EPA Administrator Johnson Explaining the ANPR The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that is it well on its way to regulating at least 85 percent of the energy used in America in the name of global warming (nevermind the fact that global temperatures have inexplicably [...]

Bush prepares global warming initiative By Stephen Dinan – President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include. Specifics of the policy are still being fiercely debated, but [...]

The storing of CO2 gases in an underground gas reservoir is being questioned by the National Generations Forum. John Boshier says, “With 80 per cent of Australia’s generation from coal, that means we have to find carbon capture and storage sites for most of that,” “That’s 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide at the moment, [...]