American families, U.S. competitiveness shortchanged by shortsighted proposal
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November 5, 2009
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Laura Henderson, 202.621.2951
Patrick Creighton, 202.621.2947
Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed a global warming bill. Following the panel’s vote, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the non-partisan, pro-market Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued this statement:
“The winners today are [...]

The Oregonian: “State officials deliberately underestimated the cost … to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were told…”
Washington, DC – According to a recent Oregonian investigative report, state government officials in Oregon intentionally misled the legislature by withholding critical costs estimates of [...]

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 and heavy taxpayer subsidies. Entitled ‘Economic impacts from the promotion of renewable [...]

IER analysis looks at economic impacts of provisions of House bill lurking below the marquee
WASHINGTON – In advance of Wednesday’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the economic consequences of climate change legislation, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) today released an analysis entitled ‘The Other Half of Waxman-Markey: An Examination of the [...]

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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Patrick Creighton, 202.621.2947
Laura Henderson, 202.621.2951
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 [...]

New analysis reveals cap-and-trade would provide windfall profits to politically connected firms, redistribute wealth
WASHINGTON – With Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) expected to reveal a draft of the Senate’s climate bill this week, free-market think tank Institute for Energy Research (IER) released a new analysis today outlining how cap-and-trade would precipitate a [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 29, 2009
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Patrick Creighton 202.621.2947
Laura Henderson 202.621.2951
Main Street Under Cap-and-Trade Attack
Study confirms Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade redistributes wealth from lower, middle-class income earners to wealthiest, most politically-connected
WASHINGTON—As Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) are expected to release their version of a cap-and-trade global warming bill this week, the Institute for Energy Research (IER), [...]

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Patrick Creighton 202.621.2947
Chris Tucker 202.621.2951
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 [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 21, 2009
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Patrick Creighton 202.621.2947
Chris Tucker 202.346.8825
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 [...]