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 [...]

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 [...]

**UPDATE: American Power Act legislative text now available.** Washington, DC – After months of behind-the-scenes horse-trading and corporate deal-making, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) finally unveiled their global warming measure, The American Power Act. However, they have yet to release the actual legislative text, which will include the all [...]

Tomorrow, with the support of the White House, Senators Kerry and Lieberman are introducing a bill to regulate energy. The Obama administration and Congress are trying to make the American public believe that cap-and-trade and other “clean energy” policies will reduce greenhouse gas emissions while not significantly increasing consumer prices. These Senators and the President [...]

Washington, DC – As Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) prepare to unveil their much-awaited global warming legislation, many Americans find themselves wondering who will benefit from the proposal. Well, after a quick search of newspapers from the past few years, it’s obvious who wins and who loses: Wall Street [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]