FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: LAURA HENDERSON AUGUST 25, 2010 202.621.2951 Spill Commission has Opportunity to “Make it Right” Interior Department’s Gross Distortion of Facts Requires the Commission to Set the Record Straight WASHINGTON – In an attempt to insert facts into the debate about the United States’ offshore drilling policies, the Institute for Energy Research [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 CONTACT: Laura Henderson 202.621.2951 Pyle: One job killed as a result of reactionary government policy is one job too many WASHINGTON – In response to news reports detailing the Administration’s misguided approach to the economic and employment impacts its drilling moratorium has had on Gulf Coast communities, Institute for [...]

WASHINGTON – In response to the U.S. Interior Department’s announcement that it will add even more red tape to the already lengthy permitting process for deepwater oil and gas production, Daniel Kish, Institute for Energy Research senior vice president for policy, released the following statement: “The Administration continues its assault on US energy production, this [...]

WASHINGTON, DC – In response to news reports announcing the death of economy-destroying, job-killing legislation to cap carbon, Institute for Energy Research (IER) President Thomas J. Pyle released the following statement. “Over the last several years, Congress has repackaged, renamed and rebranded carbon capping legislation. Executives, lawmakers and lobbyists spent untold hours crafting backroom deals [...]

Washington, DC – In response to today’s announcement on the new Obama drilling moratorium, Institute for Energy Research Senior Vice President Daniel V. Kish released the following statement: “This moratorium is nothing but a kick in the face to the hardworking men and women who have lost—and will continue to lose—their jobs as a result [...]

New national survey finds that 70% of Americans oppose new energy taxes to combat global warming IER President: “The American people are smarter than the political class in Washington think – they see this tragic accident playing out in the Gulf, and are overwhelmingly opposed to the Obama Administration’s plan to capitalize on it politically [...]

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham may no longer claim allegiance to the climate bill currently being debated in the Senate, but according to a new independent analysis released this week, the cap-and-trade proposal being advanced by Sens. Kerry and Lieberman does no better by the American consumer than previous iterations of the bill [...]

Washington, DC – Following Judge Martin Feldman’s decision to overturn the Obama Administration’s deepwater drilling ban, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research issued this statement: “This moratorium, wisely overturned, was never about safety – it was about politics, and politics at its worst. And while the Obama Administration has chosen, once [...]

Rahm Emanuel: Never allow a crisis to go to waste… they are opportunities to do big things Washington, DC – In response to President Obama’s address to the nation, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research issued the following statement: “There is not one thing in the President’s stated plans from the [...]

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 [...]