A Carbon Tax and “Pricing Carbon”
September 7, 2016At the Canadian Fraser Institute’s blog, economist David R. Henderson offers a short but refreshing critique of the euphemism “price…
Lacking Substance, Axelrod et al. Resort to Petty Insults; Fail to Counter IER Study
August 10, 2016In a speech earlier this week at the Detroit Economic Club, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump emphasized that lifting burdensome…
New England Imports LNG in lieu of Building Pipelines
July 25, 2016New Englanders have a problem. They are using more and more natural gas for electricity generation and for home heating.…
Bloomberg Ed. Board Ignores Facts, Economics in Attack on Coal
July 19, 2016Recently Bloomberg’s editorial board argued that the federal government should make the current moratorium on coal leasing permanent and stop…
Germany is Cutting Back on Renewable Subsidies to Stabilize its Electric Grid
June 23, 2016On Sunday, May 8, renewable energy supplied 87 percent of Germany’s electricity. Around 1 pm on that day, the country’s…
Global Coal Consumption Fell in 2015; Oil’s Market Share Rose to a 16-Year High
June 15, 2016According to the BP Statistical Review 2016, global coal consumption fell in 2015 by 1.8 percent—the largest decline since the…
