Obama Continues to Skin the Cat with More Coal Closures
The skin continues to come off the cat. President Obama’s wish of a cap-and-trade plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would have bankrupted the coal… Read More
EPA Gives Green Light for California’s Costly Car Program
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted a waiver to the state of California to move forward with its Advanced Clean Cars Program. The… Read More
Big Chemical: For Natural Gas Exports Before They Were Against Them
As the country waits with bated breath for the Obama Administration to belatedly approve nearly a dozen natural gas export projects, big chemical companies are… Read More
U.S. Should Export Natural Gas
A long-awaited report on natural gas exports was finally released by the Department of Energy (DOE) last week. Unsurprisingly, it concluded that exporting natural gas… Read More
Carbon Tax: NRDC Serves Up Stale Leftovers
An old cartoon showed a customer sampling from a jar whose label is emblazoned with the words “New and Improved.” The customer asks what has… Read More
Legalize Crude Oil Exports
An energy renaissance is underway in the United States. According to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), America’s decades-long dependence on foreign… Read More
Energy Independence the Free-Market Way
It was clear in pre-election discussion that Americans want energy independence. The most successful means to this end has been the free market—and the release… Read More
IEA Says U.S. to Become Energy Independent by 2030; Obama Administration Says Not So Fast
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its Annual World Energy Outlook this week with the headline that the U.S. could become a net exporter of… Read More
Green-Energy Projects Face Opposition From Green Groups
“We need green energy. Just not here.” Do those words sound familiar? That’s quite often the case with so-called proponents of green energy. The acronym… Read More
U.S. Shed 9,000 Mining, Energy Jobs in October, 17,000 Since May
Buried in Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the country’s unemployment situation was this disheartening fact: 9,000 employees of the mining and resource extraction… Read More
