Senate panel examines on offshore environmental stewardship; Should focus on unlocking job-creating homegrown energy

Washington, DC – Offshore energy exploration and production in the United States is safe and environmentally sound. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. oil and gas industry has developed innovative, 21st century technologies and exploration techniques that are efficient, pose little [...]

Last week the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-1 to pass the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade energy tax.   Some of the Committee’s members wanted to delay that vote until the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducts a complete economic analysis of the bill’s expected costs to American consumers and the nation’s economy, but Committee Chairman Barbara [...]

Washington, DC – Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued the following statement today on news that the Supreme Court has rejected an Interior Department request to reconsider a lower court ruling regarding oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico:
“It doesn’t take an advanced legal mind to interpret [...]

It’s been nearly a year since the federal government responded to the will of the American people and retired its decades-old bans on responsible offshore energy exploration.  Unfortunately, one year later, it seems as though that long overdue response was merely a gesture.  In fact, not only are we no closer to tapping those “newly [...]

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August 6, 2009
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Patrick Creighton, 202.870.0850
Laura Henderson, 202.621.2951
China, Russia, Cuba, Brazil Advance Robust, Supply-Focused Energy Policy
In Washington, Senate panel looks for new ways to ration, constrict American energy
Washington, DC – As our chief global competitors continue to expand their access to job-creating, economy-strengthening energy resources, the U.S. Senate Environment Committee held another [...]

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July 21, 2009
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Patrick Creighton, 202.870.0850
Laura Henderson, 202.621.2951
California Drilling: Progress or Economic Self Destruction?
Efforts to expand offshore production come with Sacramento’s heavy hand, and a wink and a nod from the enviros
Washington, DC – Thomas J. Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued the following statement today regarding California’s ongoing [...]

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July 10, 2009
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Laura Henderson, 202.621.2951
Patrick Creighton, 202.621.2947

One Year Later: As Anniversary of Lifting of Offshore Energy Ban Approaches, IER Asks: “Where’s the Energy?”

IER joins broad coalition of pro-energy, pro-consumer groups in asking White House, Congress to free American energy
WASHINGTON – As the July 14 anniversary of President Bush’s decision to lift [...]

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April 21, 2009
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Court Decision Tests Salazar’s Mettle on Offshore
Energy Production
Interior Secretary holds key to unlock drilling plan from legal morass, but cat holds his tongue
WASHINGTON – Institute for Energy Research (IER) president Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement today in response to a recent court decision vacating the Department of [...]

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APRIL 8, 2009
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LAURA HENDERSON
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Drumbeat Continues: Administration Enlists Another Soldier for its War on American Energy Production

Washington, D.C. – IER President Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement in response to Secretary Salazar’s appointment of Ned Farquhar – former employee of the most aggressive of all the anti-energy lawsuit groups, the Natural Resources [...]

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APRIL 7, 2009
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LAURA HENDERSON
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If by “Open,” He Meant “Closed,” Salazar’s OCS Public Review Process is the Most Open We’ve Ever Seen
WASHINGTON, D.C. – IER President Thomas J. Pyle today issued the following statement in response to growing concerns surrounding Secretary of Interior Salazar’s increasing efforts to close off public access to the [...]