Doubling Down On Climate Alarmism
This week, UN representatives are meeting in Peru in hopes of crafting an agreement that will limit global greenhouse emissions and combat the (nonexistent) problem of rising worldwide temperatures....
View ArticleFringe Obstructionism: Keystone XL
In a recent op-ed, climate activist Bill McKibben pats the environmental movement on the back for obstructing the completion of the fourth and final phase of the Keystone Pipeline System. Pointing to...
View ArticleFederal Offshore Leasing: Another 'No' For Energy
The administration’s highly surgical war on oil, gas and coal is premised on climate alarmism. Any policy deviation in favor of carbon-based energy, including liberalized offshore leasing, would...
View ArticleKeystone XL Pipeline: An Economic And Environmental No-Brainer Despite The Veto
President Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline is a shortsighted, politically motivated slap in the face of most Americans in favor of honest work and honest consumption. By vetoing this...
View ArticleWhen Did Critics Stop Caring About Oil Profits?
Until recently, attacks on oil-company profits were standard fare among anti-fossil-fuel activists. Back in 2013 the Center for American Progress' Daniel Weiss complained: "Big Oil is swimming in an...
View ArticleThe Renewable Fuel Standard: Can The 'Tyranny Of The Status Quo' Be Broken?
Free market economist Milton Friedman explained how government subsidies are very hard to dislodge, once in-place. With concentrated benefits and diffused costs, the status quo can become tyrannical in...
View Article'Climate Anger:' Last Refuge Of The Alarmists
For purveyors of climate alarm, emotional displays of intolerance are increasingly crowding out reasoned argument. But such narrow-mindedness toward the loyal opposition -- and its dedication to...
View ArticleEPA Fracking Study: Drilling Wins
The agency has finally admitted what the oil and natural gas industry has been saying for more than 60 years: “Hydraulic fracturing activities have not led to widespread, systemic impacts to drinking...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Divestment: Flight From Reality
"The effect of decisions on the consumption of fossil fuels will be nil; the effect on the growth of institutions’ endowments will be negative." - George Will, "'Sustainability' Gone Mad on College...
View ArticleTime For The Feds To Get Off The Road
In yet another episode of federal incompetence, Congress is now scrambling for ways to fund the nation's highways
View ArticleHillary's Solar Future Has A Bad Past
MILWAUKEE, WI - SEPTEMBER 10: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to guests gathered for a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on September 10, 2015 in...
View ArticleLegalize Energy Freedom: Get Rid Of The Oil Export Ban
Never mind that the planet does not need to be saved -- and cannot be 'saved' by autonomous, self-interested politicians the world over. The Obama administration's forced energy transformation plan...
View ArticleObama's New Ozone Standard: More Regulations, More Problems
Few are happy. Expect a flurry of lawsuits and congressional action against the Environmental Protection Agency’s new ground-level ozone standard. Now that the EPA’s new standard of 70 parts per...
View ArticleClimate Alarmism: Statism's New Clothes
In the buildup to the November 30-December 11 United Nations climate summit in Paris (21st Conference of the Parties: COP21), climate alarmists are determined to end intellectual debate over the...
View ArticleClimate Exaggeration: Buy It Now!
The Better Business Bureau warns consumers against high-pressure sales tactics, such as "today only" or "last one in stock." According to the BBB, "Deadlines are designed to force you into a sale...
View ArticleIndustry Critics Fall Silent on Oil Profits
While oil companies’ profits have sink, American families’ pocketbooks have fattened.
View ArticleExxonMobil And Climate Change: Do Look At The Science
The anti-industrial Left, which can no longer attack 'Big Oil' over prices or profits, has turned to climate change. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) The Left has declared another war on Exxon Mobil. No,...
View ArticleBoxing In Oil And Gas: The Latest Part Of The Obama Plan
Growing economies need more goods and services at ever more affordable prices. Energy, aka the master resource, is no exception. President Obama -- the most anti-energy president since Jimmy Carter --...
View ArticleKilling America's Pipe Dreams
All totaled, 21 projects have been delayed or terminated since the president rejected Keystone XL last year. Half of these concern pipelines, and most of the rest are export terminals for LNG, oil and...
View ArticleVoting For Energy
Despite the divisiveness of this election season, Americans from both parties share common ground. As polls show, voters want the next president to inject life into our sluggish economy. The nation...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Divestment: A Fool's Errand
Green activists are getting schooled in fossil fuel divestment. Despite left-environmentalists' best efforts, New York University and the University of Cambridge just rejected pleas to stop investing...
View ArticleInvestors Confront Tesla's Energy Fantasy
Earlier this summer, SolarCity, Elon Musk's rooftop solar company, appeared to be headed toward bankruptcy.
View ArticleClimate Exaggeration is Backfiring
Green activists are at war with the greatest American foe since the Axis Powers—or so they say. The latest Democratic Party platform compares the fight against global warming to World War II. Using...
View ArticleDakota Pipeline: Obama Appeases Lawbreakers
Environmentalists are employing a new strategy in their crusade against the energy industry: breaking the law. In Iowa, 40 protesters were just arrested for trespassing on a construction site for the...
View ArticleMedia Hype Aside, Energy Industry Is Exceptionally Safe
The new movie Deepwater Horizon chronicles a few brave rig workers during the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a story worth telling, but the Deepwater disaster should not be taken as an...
View ArticleIgnore Climate Angst In A New Policy Era
We're going to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs." Donald Trump, May 26, 2016 "I will also cancel all wasteful climate...
View ArticleFossil Fuels Keep Holidays Bright
With the holidays upon us, millions of Americans are decking their halls with Christmas lights and turning up the heat against the cold winter's night. These seasonal activities require a lot of...
View Article'Climate Denier': Imprecise, Fallacious And Hateful
"Trump Taps Climate Skeptic for Top Environmental Post." So read a page-one headline in the Wall Street Journal last month. A balanced article followed, describing president-elect Trump's pick for...
View ArticlePipeline Populism: Complete, Build
President Trump just gave the economy a power-up. He recently approved the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. This means more domestic energy and more jobs. But it also means...
View ArticleCamp's Departure Creates Opening for Tax Reform
While Rep. David Camp (R-MI) won't be seeking another term in Congress, he has no plans of backing down in the fight for fundamental, game-changing tax reform. In announcing his retirement on March 31,...
View ArticleDivestment Futility
At Tufts University recently, students demonstrated against the school's ownership of fossil-fuel company stocks. They claimed that holding oil, natural gas, and coal shares runs counter to the...
View ArticleA Federal Gasoline Stockpile? Bad Idea.
Earlier this month, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz announced a $215 million project to build two new Northeast gasoline reserves, one near New York Harbor and another in New England. These federal...
View ArticleClimate Alarmists Get Ugly
"Can climate scientists please stop the intimidation, bullying, shunning, and character assassination of other scientists who they find 'not helpful' to their cause? Can we pleasereturn to logical...
View ArticleFederal Lands Deserve an Energy Boom Too
Newly-confirmed head of the Office of Management and Budget, Shaun Donovan, has pledged to reduce the half-trillion dollar annual federal deficit without sacrificing what is seen as important...
View ArticleOil-Export Ban: Holding America Back
"Without compelling reasons for continuing to restrict crude exports, and given the potential benefits, Congress should liberalize the crude oil export regime. Republicans and Democrats alike,...
View ArticleRenewable Fuel Standard: Running on Empty Rhetoric
Last April, I outlined why the Renewable Fuel Standard should be repealed. Unfortunately, the RFS remains intact. The opportunity today is to scrap, not tweak, the federal biofuels quota to benefit...
View ArticleOn Keystone, Crude Excuses Gone
The environmentalist campaign to block the Keystone XL pipeline has run out of gas. Canada's largest energy firm, TransCanada, has announced plans to create an alternative to KXL that lies entirely...
View ArticleBad Science, Worse Policy
Fossil-fuel emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, will result in "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people, species and 27 ecosystems," warns a new report from the...
View ArticleFrom America To Australia: Liberate Resources
For both countries, a world apart geographically, the opportunity is the same. Remove the rocks so the grass can grow. Say no to ideology and yes to economic liberty and resource liberalization....
View ArticleDon't Divest, Invest In Fossil-Fuel America
For years, environmental extremists have begged large investors to divest themselves of all financial assets connected with the oil and gas industries. Investors who capitulate to their demands won't...
View ArticleBan Fracking? Bad Economics, Bad Ecology
For years, the green movement has spread falsehoods about fracking. Lately, the leave-it-in-the-ground lobby has doubled down on its mission to thwart the practice. But research consistently shows that...
View ArticleThe Fine Print On Pipelines Isn't Scary
The media loves to turn small pipeline incidents into attention-grabbing headlines. But the truth is that pipelines are safer than ever. Now that's something worth reporting.
View ArticleMethane Regulation: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Last month, the U.S. Senate narrowly voted against repealing a punitive, last-minute Obama era regulation.
View ArticleThis is the End for Offshore Obstructionism
The Trump administration is one step closer to unlocking America's vast offshore energy reserves.
View ArticleSurvey Says...Offshore Seismic is Safe
Late last month, Delaware Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons released a joint statement opposing seismic surveying in the Atlantic Ocean. Their worry is that such preparatory drilling work for oil and...
View ArticleGreen Light at the FERC Corral
The Senate recently confirmed two new appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, ending a seven-month dormancy due to lack of a quorum. With three members, two Republicans and one...
View ArticleANWR: Make Alaska Great Again
The Obama-era keep-it-in-the-ground oil strategy is being reversed in the lower-48 states —and now in Alaska. The very development of ANWR will refute environmentalist exaggerations and point the way...
View ArticleOffshore Resources: Digging Up the Facts
There's a vast expanse of untapped energy just off our shores, waiting to be inventoried and then developed according to market signals (consumer demand). It would be wise for coastal states to embrace...
View ArticleA New Low in the Media's War on Fracking
Activists ought to be celebrating a new era of energy plenty and reliability. Instead, they remain determined to smear fracking with shoddy science. It's almost as if they have a hidden agenda -- one...
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