Made good on healthcare last week, bankrupts the coal industry this week Washington, DC – Responding to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision this afternoon on the future of coal mining in Appalachia, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research issued the following statement: “Today’s EPA announcement will bankrupt the coal industry [...]

Photo: Flickr user afsart WASHINGTON – Citing the intransigence of Mother Earth and the increasingly irreconcilable differences between the dictates of U.S. energy policy and the ethereal realities of the celestial universe, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) announced today a first-of-its-kind legal effort that, in cooperation with the Sierra Club and the American Wind [...]

Photo: Eric Feferberg, AFP/Getty Images Washington, DC – Earlier this morning, President Obama delivered remarks at Andrews Air Force Base on offshore energy exploration and production, and what a scene it was. While many newspapers and cable news pundits cheered the announcement as a positive development, we at the Institute for Energy Research caution lawmakers, [...]

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. [...]

Washington, DC – On Wednesday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) administrator Jane Lubchenco will testify before the House Appropriations subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and State – on hand to defend her agency’s $5.55 billion budget request, which represents a 15 percent increase over current funding levels. While some of that money will certainly go [...]

Washington, DC – Today, top Obama Administration officials responsible for managing our nation’s vast energy resources will defend the President’s budget proposal, which to paraphrase President Ronald Reagan’s view of government programs, can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops [...]

The so-called $787 billion “stimulus” package is creating some “green jobs” — this we’re certain. Unfortunately, though, many of these taxpayer-supported jobs are not in the United States. In fact, a billion hard-earned (and borrowed) U.S. tax dollars are being directed to create jobs in China, of all places. Some stimulus, huh? And at the [...]

“It is almost impossible to know who is the government and who the lobbyists. They have merged into one single animal with different faces.” – Dr. Gabriel Calzada, Spanish economics professor and researcher BACKGROUND: Last March, Spanish economics professor Gabriel Calzada published an academic analysis that showed for every green job created in Spain, 2.2 jobs [...]

As energy secretary Steven Chu continues his trip through the Middle East to “discuss a range of energy issues, including energy security,” we ask: What else could have been accomplished by a quick trip to Canada, the U.S.’s largest energy importer and exporter? Washington, DC – As U.S. secretary of energy Steven Chu continues his [...]

Energy secretary jet-sets to the Middle East to “discuss a range of energy issues, including energy security.” We ask: Could as much, if not more, have been accomplished by walking 15 blocks to the Interior Dept.? Washington, DC – Today marks day two of Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s four-day, three-country tour through the Middle East [...]