OpenMarket: September 2017

Last week, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on a range of financial regulatory bills that Congress will consider this session. The bills represent needed reforms that would provide relief to a...

Advocates of net neutrality regulation profess preservation of free speech online as their motivation for heavy-handed government control of the Internet, but recent events show that just the opposite is true.

Last week, my colleague Ryan Radia pointed out in...

Germany is well off course of its 2020 carbon dioxide emissions goals according to a study released on Thursday by the Agora Energiewende think tank. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has pledged to reduce emissions by 40 percent by...

The House of Representatives this week considered an appropriations bill, H. R. 3354, that combines eight separate spending bills for FY 2018, including the bill for the Department of the Interior and the...

Xcel Energy last week announced that it would seek regulatory approval of a “Colorado Energy Plan,” which would retire early almost 700 megawatts of coal-fired generating units to be replaced with a new natural gas plant and also renewable energy. Although Xcel has yet...

The Senate Appropriations Committee this week voted 16 to 14 to restore funding for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Republican Senators Susan Collins (ME) and Lamar Alexander (TN)...

Yesterday, the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF) released a statement on the air traffic control reform proposal pending in the House. “After fully analyzing the...

Washington, D.C.’s intuitive reaction when something goes wrong is to regulate. But what if the thing that went wrong was caused by regulation?

“Caused” is a lot to claim, and there isn’t going to be just one cause of the...

Congratulations on ten years of hard work and success to our friends at the Institute for 21^st Century Energy, a project of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

10 years ago, gasoline prices were at an all-time high, America's dependence on foreign oil was growing, our energy future and security were at risk. America was running out of options. We tackled the issue head on. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and leaders in American business came together to form the Institute for 21st Century Energy.

Going forward, the Chamber’s work will now be organized under the aegis of the...