Ben Lieberman is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute specializing in environmental policy.
View all authorsClimate skeptics – those who do not believe that global warming is a crisis justifying a blank check response – have always had the soundest… Read More
In his original budget proposal, President Obama envisioned a cap-and-trade program that would raise hundreds of billions of dollars by selling emissions credits to businesses…. Read More
The Congressional Budget Office’s low-ball analysis of the Waxman-Markey global warming bill’s costs allowed President Obama to claim that this bill would cost each household… Read More
The Waxman-Markey global warming bill – already the most convoluted attempt at economic central planning this nation has ever seriously considered – just got a… Read More
The Waxman-Markey global warming bill is far and away the most worrisome environmental measure currently working its way through Congress, but it is certainly not… Read More
The last few years have been bumpy ones for energy supplies and prices, but one piece of good news has been the upturn in domestic… Read More
Summer is coming and homeowners know that it costs a few dollars more to crank up the air-conditioning by setting the thermostat a degree or… Read More
Consumers already know that the federal government’s ethanol mandate is bad news, but the latest EPA proposal works out the gory details for the years… Read More
The Obama administration’s Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has had a very busy first six weeks. His agency, which handles most domestic energy leasing,… Read More
So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy… Read More
