Unsustainable, taxpayer-funded “green jobs” focus of Senate Finance hearing today

Washington, DC – As part of the ongoing efforts in the US Senate to enact sweeping, energy-rationing legislation, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today entitled “Climate Change Legislation: Considerations for Future Jobs.” Following the hearing, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the non-partisan, market-oriented Institute [...]

The Obama Administration sold its $787 billion stimulus plan on the basis of improving the economy through investing in green energy and by doing so, increasing employment in the United States. But what is actually happening, particularly with wind and solar projects, is that the majority of the manufactured components are being built offshore in [...]

Economic impacts from the promotion of renewable energies: The German Experience (PDF 358KB)
Washington, DC – Though proponents of so-called government-funded ‘green jobs’ often reference the ‘success’ European countries have enjoyed in their experiments with such regulations and mandates, a study released today in the United States sheds new light on Germany’s experience with renewable energy [...]

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the Waxman-Markey bill. Generally, Waxman-Markey bill is thought of as a cap-and-trade bill, but it is far more than that. Of the bill’s 1,428 pages, merely half are dedicated to cap-and-trade. Dr. Robert Michaels, a Senior Fellow with IER, examined the non-cap-and-trade provisions [...]

WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the trade panel of the House Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing entitled “Growing U.S. Trade in Green Technology.” Institute for Energy Research (IER) board member Steven Hayward, a fellow of law and economics at the American Enterprise Institute, was among those asked to testify.
Thomas J. Pyle, president of IER, [...]

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Spanish Prof. to Congress: Avoid Spain’s Failed Experiment with “Green Jobs”
Academic draws attention to the rise, fall and outright collapse of Spanish green jobs bubble
WASHINGTON – Spanish professor Gabriel Calzada appeared before the US House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming this afternoon to discuss his country’s failed experiment [...]

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September 21, 2009
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Let the Inquisition Begin
Spanish Prof. Returns to the States, Sets Out to Set the Record Straight on His Country’s Failed Experiment with Green Jobs
WASHINGTON – Four months removed from the release of his study on Spain’s experience with the mass government subsidization of so-called “green jobs,” Spanish [...]

Energy is critical for our economy and our future and the real issues deserve to be debated. That is why we appreciated the initial response on the American Wind Energy Association’s website to the recent study, Wind Energy: The Case of Denmark. It appears that AWEA actually read the study and raised some questions related [...]

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September 14, 2009
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Something Rotten? Obama Says Danes Receive 20% of Their Power Via Wind; New Study Tells the Real Story
Danish experts visit Washington this week to explain to American audiences what’s really happening in Denmark
WASHINGTON – President Obama has frequently cited Denmark as an example to be followed in [...]

The propaganda blitz over the virtues of “green energy” is still running strong. The pressure group “Green For All” recently commissioned a study by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). The study is titled, “Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States.” Unfortunately, the new study’s arguments [...]