Archive for Press Releases

IER Releases Top Five Questions for NOAA Chief Ahead of Appropriations Hearing

IER Statement on the Interior Dept.’s Anti-Energy, Job-Killing Budget

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING: As the Energy Dept. Cozies up with “Big Wind”, and US Taxpayers Bankroll “Green Jobs” in China, Many Are Asking: “What, exactly, is a ‘green’ job?”

Bombshell: Obama Admin. Caught Red-Handed Working with Big Wind Energy Lobbyists, Misleading American People

15,000 or 575 Miles?

15,000 Miles or 15 City Blocks? 

President Obama’s Nuclear Sleight of Hand: More Taxpayer Giveaways; No Place for the Waste

Obama Admin Delays Atlantic OCS Development until at Least 2014, Will Congress Force Interior’s Hand?

Fact Check: How will Obama Pay for Fed. GHG Reduction Initiative?

Mr. President, Don’t Forget About America’s Job-Creating Energy Resources

Whither the Wind

Hydraulic Fracturing Creates Jobs, Increases Energy Security

$135,295 per Job: Obama Announces $2.3 Billion to Create 17K Green Jobs

Lease Police: Salazar Decision on Lease Rules Will Make It “More Difficult, Expensive and Time-Consuming” to Produce American Energy

DOE: Fossil Fuel Remains Economic-Driver Through at Least 2035

New Poll: Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Favor Offshore Energy Development

SMOKE-AND-MIRRORS: Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Global Warming Bill Puts Big Business Ahead of Consumers

EPA Ruling Opens Door for Unelected Washington Bureaucrats to Systematically Cripple US Economy

1.2 Million Energy Jobs Available, Will Obama Admin. Open OCS for Business?

Fact Checking Secretary Salazar's Press Conference

Actions Speak Louder Than Words on Domestic Energy Production 

What President Obama (Should Have) Learned about Energy Policy during his Visit to China

Technology, Innovation Remains Key to Safe, Increased Offshore Energy Development

Top Secret: "Green Jobs" Would Not Exist Without Massive Taxpayer Subsidies, Corporate Handouts

Special Interests, Foreign Competitors Win Under Senate Global Warming Bill

BUSTED: Oregon “Green Energy” Backers Accused of Cooking the Books, Deliberately Hiding Huge Taxpayer Costs

Proceed at Your Own Peril: New Study Critical of German “Green” Experience

Killer Filler: Non-Cap-and-Trade Provisions of Waxman-Markey No Better than Main Dish

Mass Subsidization of Green Jobs “Unsustainable”

REJECTED: High Court Denies Government Request to Hear Offshore Royalty Case

Blockbuster Study: Working-Class Bears Burden of Cap-and-Trade

Main Street Under Cap and Trade Attack

Spanish Prof. to Congress: Avoid Spain’s Failed Experiment with “Green Jobs”

Let the Inquisition Begin

Rahall Bill a Continuation of Failed Energy Policies From Washington

Something Rotten? Obama Says Danes Receive 20% of Their Power Via Wind; New Study Tells the Real Story

150th Anniversary of Drake’s Well Should Renew America’s Leadership to Access, Deliver Energy

Insatiable: China Ups Oil Imports By 50% in 6 Months, Causes Significant Spike in Price of Oil

ICYMI: Cold in the dark prospects

China, Russia, Cuba, Brazil Advance Robust, Supply-Focused Energy Policy

Senate Panel Continues Out-of-the-Mainstream Rhetoric on Energy Policy

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Biden Promotes Free-Market Energy Principles Abroad

California Drilling: Progress or Economic Self Destruction?

Massive Government Subsidies + Mandates – Reality = Green Jobs

Where’s the Energy? One-Year Later, De Facto Ban Remains in Place

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

Supply, Not Speculation, Responsible For Volatile Energy Prices

Senate Global Warming Hearings Present Opportunity to Refocus Debate on Lowering Energy Costs, Creating Jobs

IER: New National Poll Reaffirms Mainstream America’s Opposition to Cap-and-Tax

Bradley: Climate Bill a Public Policy Abomination

Landmark Carbon Tax Bill Narrowly Clears U.S. House

Renewable Electricity Mandate: Pay More For Less

In España, Veritas: Pres. Clinton Concedes Spain’s Green Jobs Program “Has Cost Many Jobs”

Obama Motors: Costly, Bureaucratic, and Pointless

Cap and Trade: They Said It

Finger-Wagging Lawmakers Should Look in the Mirror

ICYMI: Spanish Professor Debunks Green Job Myths

Spanish Prof. Calzada Joins IER Economist Murphy, U.S. Professor Bogart, at Heritage Forum on “Green Jobs”

ACT IV: Waxman Week-Long Cap-and-Trade Carnival Comes to an End

IER’s Michaels To Markey Panel: Cap-and-Trade “Most Profoundly Anti-Consumer Legislation Ever Brought Before a Congress”

The Day the Earth Stood Still: EPA Says CO2 a Threat to Human Health, Paves Way For Backdoor Tax on All Sectors of U.S. Economy

Drumbeat Continues: Administration Enlists Another Soldier for its War on American Energy Production

If by “Open,” He Meant “Closed,” Salazar’s OCS Public Review Process is the Most Open We’ve Ever Seen

Fantasy Land: Salazar Announces that East Coast Windmills Could Provide 100 Percent of Nation’s Electricity

Hundreds in NJ Turn Out in Support of Offshore Energy Development

Road to Serfdom: Climate Bill Envisions Future with Less Energy, Fewer Jobs, Worse Economy

Running of the Bull: U.S. “Green Jobs” Rhetoric Runs Smack Dab Into Hard Lessons From Spain

Stop Ignoring Obvious Solution to Economic Woes

Obama Mobilizes EPA Troops for War on Coal

20 Years Later: Lessons from Exxon Valdez Teach Us That Better Technology, More Production Reduces Chances of Spills

We Hate To Say We Told You So…

Cap and Trade: All Pain, No Gain for Consumers, Economy, Environment

There May Be No Free Lunch, But There is a Free Stimulus

When it Comes to Regulating Carbon, More Than One Way to Skin a Taxpayer

Administration Attempts to Sneak Biggest Tax Increase in History into Budget

Interior Decision on Oil Shale Locks Away American Energy Resource Larger than Total Reserves of Middle East

Access to Affordable Energy Essential to Any Successful Economic Recovery Plan

Embrace Canadian Energy

Offshore Energy Exploration: Myth vs. Fact

Now is Not the Time to Delay New Jobs, New Revenue

IER: EPA Decision to Move Towards Costly Regulations Disappointing

IER: Closing Utah Leases Bad Omen for American Energy Production

Labor Unions Say “Green Jobs” Don’t Pay

IER Launches Online Effort Encouraging Americans to Say “Yes We Can” to New Offshore Energy

Opening OCS Delivers Economic Stimulus Efficiently, Safely

IER Message to Biden: Ensure Affordable Energy for Americans

IER Economic Stimulus Plan Would Create Millions of New Jobs, Strengthen U.S. Energy Security

As House Begins Debate on “Green Jobs” Stimulus, IER Lists Top Five Problems With Plan

IER: President’s Adoption of California Model on Energy Means Higher Costs, Fewer Jobs for Rest of America

IER: New Offshore Plan First Step to Putting U.S. on Path to Economic, Energy Security

More Questions Than Answers As House Committee Unveils Outline of “Green Jobs” Stimulus

Green Lantern: New Study Shines Bright Light on Potential Harm to Economy and Job Losses of Obama’s Green Jobs Plan

IER Statement on Markey Energy Appointment

Obama “Green Jobs” Stimulus Would Put America in the Red

Russian Energy Supply Conflict: Further Evidence Domestic Resources Key To U.S. Energy Security

Job Mirage: Obama “Green Jobs” Plan Requires Expanding Government Payroll with 600K Bureaucrats

‘Tis the Season: Development of U.S. Energy Resources Nets Taxpayers $23.4 Billion in Royalties

IER Chairman: Obama Science Pick’s “Intolerance for Dissent,” Persist Predictions of Global Collapse, “Legendary”

New IER Video Makes the Economic Case for Developing America’s Vast Energy Resources

IER Chairman: Obama Energy Plan Resurrects Malthusian ‘Limits to Growth,’ Enron ‘Green’ Energy Plays

IER: Obama Interior Pick Will Have “Plenty to Say” on When, Whether American Economy Can Make Its Way Back

U.S. Reliance on Fossil Fuels Forecast to Continue

IER Encourages CARB to Consider Economic Implications of AB 32

Nancy Sutley to Head Obama Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

New Study: Producing Off-Limits Energy Would Generate $1.7 Trillion Stimulus and 160,000 New Jobs

Obama Reversal on Windfall Profits Tax Good News For Consumers, Economy

IER Letter to President-elect Obama: Americans Demand No New Energy Bans in 2009

The Change Voters Seek in Energy Policy at Odds With Obama Plan

IER to Congress: “Stimulating U.S. Energy Creates Jobs and Fills Government Coffers”

Governor Palin Drills Down on U.S. Energy Policy

Drilling: The Only Stimulus Plan Without A Price Tag for Taxpayers

Will Either Candidate Lead the Way on Energy?

AB 32 is Bad Medicine for California’s Struggling Economy

IER Continues Energy Education Campaign with New National Ad Buy and “Economic Energy” Message

A Massive Economic Stimulus in the Making–Ban on Offshore Energy Production Expires Tonight at Midnight

Congress Relents Under Pressure From American Public, Allows Offshore Drilling Ban to Expire

Congress to Allow Offshore Drilling Ban to Expire

Speaker Pushing Stealth Renewal of Congressional Energy Embargo

IER Continues Energy Education Ad Campaign with New Radio Spots, “Same Failed Policies” and “Drill More, Tax Less”

Congress Offers Snake Oil, Not Energy Solutions

Top Findings from “Gang of Ten” Study

Independent Economic Analysis: Gang of Sixteen Plan

IER Letter to House & Senate Leaders: Gang of Ten ‘Energy’ Plan Worse Than Status Quo

As Congressional Energy Embargo Continues, IER Solicits Public Comments on New Offshore Drilling Plan

‘Gang of Ten’ Plan Attracts Flies

While Congress is on Vacation, IER Launches 5-State Energy Education Ad Campaign

Bogus Lease Claims in “Use It or Lose It” Proposal Stymie Real Energy Security

Better Off Doing Nothing

Earnings Week Intensifies Silly Season on Capitol Hill

Congress Continues to Wag Finger at Ghosts, Real World Energy Solutions Remain On Hold

Interior Department Initiates New Offshore Drilling Plan

No Evidence of Excessive Speculation Exists

IER Applauds Announcement of Oil Shale Leasing Rules

Consumers Need Energy, Not Political Slogans and Lawsuits

Supply and Demand is a Hoax?

IER Launches Offshore Energy Countdown

“From Frisbees to Flatulence”

OPEC Warns of Potential Oil Shortages, Congress Continues to Short American Supplies

Pickens Plan Leaves U.S. Energy Security Blowing in the Wind

The Energy Scorecard of the OPEC Congress

Can America “Extrapolate” Its Way to Energy Security?

Price Gouging Again? Seriously?

IER Report: Speculators Not to Blame for High Oil Prices

Bush Misses Key Opportunity on Offshore Energy, IER Renews Call to Eliminate Executive Ban

IER Calls on Bush to Tear Up Executive Drilling Ban

U.S. Senate Debates “Greatest Hits” Compilation of Failed Energy Policies

U.S. Senate Punts Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Bill

The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Congress Passes ‘NOPEC’ Legislation Today

Institute for Energy Research

for the well-being of mankind

Archive for Press Releases

LATEST BLOG ENTRIES

CATEGORIES

FAN US ON FACEBOOK!