The Open Market Blog

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 10/15/2008

Chevron has plastered a series of posters all over the Washington, D.C. metro system as part of an…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 10/03/2008

Section 117 of the just-passed bailout bill requires a "carbon audit" of the tax code. The provision requires the Secretary of the Treasury,…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 03/27/2008

This article in the Sacramento Bee reveals the high risk of “sure thing” investments based on political interventions in the market place. “There was…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 03/26/2008

The California Air Resources Board's (CARB) once mighty ZEV (zero-emission vehicle, i.e., electric car) mandate may soon be demoted to pure symbolism.  Back in 1990, California adopted…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 08/06/2007

Newsweek‘s cover story, by Sharon Begley and three colleagues, purports to be an expose of the global-warming “denial machine” and how it…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/30/2007

Dear Marlo: I’ve received quite a lot of correspondence from people around the country about my July 13 email to you, and they have persuaded…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/24/2007

Two weeks ago my colleague, Iain Murray, posted on The Corner an email from Michael Eckhart, President of the American Council on Renewable Energy…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/20/2007

My colleague Myron Ebell sometimes describes industry's response to global warming and oil import alarmism as: "Circle the wagons and everybody shoot into the middle."…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/17/2007

This pair of articles by Javier Blas and Jenny Wiggins of the Financial Times is of direct relevance to the debate in Washington,…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/13/2007

What prompts this question is a full-page advertisement in today’s (July 11, 2007) Wall Street Journal by BASF, “The Chemical Company.” The ad features a…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/05/2007

Gov. Rendell of PA is indignant because GOP legislators are calling his proposed “system benefits charge” or “fee” on electricity a TAX. The proposed…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/29/2007

I testified yesterday at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on "global warming issues and the power plant sector." Both my written…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/20/2007

A column by Doug Cameron in today’s (June 20, 2007) Financial Times (”Animal plan incites pork-barrel politics“) provides more evidence (as if any were…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/20/2007

You have probably heard that China is building new coal-fired power plants at the rate of one every week to 10 days. In…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/19/2007

Kyotoites assure us we can have our cake and eat it too. We can meet the world’s surging demand for affordable energy and,…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/19/2007

Today’s National Journal reports that House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D., Mich.) and Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D., Va.)…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/18/2007

Al Gore and other alarmists call global warming a “moral issue.” But for them it is actually a moralizing issue. Global warming allows them to…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/15/2007

Yesterday's Greenwire (June 14, 2007) presented the transcript of a speech by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate energy bill. The following…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/13/2007

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has just published an analysis of Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) “renewable portfolio standard” (RPS) plan requiring utilities by 2020…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/13/2007

Last week (June 7, 2007), a panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) and Subcommittee Chair…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/13/2007

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has published a report examining six scenarios under which the Golden State might implement AB 32, the “California Global Warming Solutions…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 05/01/2007

CEI is not the habit of praising Elliott Spitzer. Indeed, Spitzer won the number three spot in CEI’s report on the Top Ten Worst…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 04/18/2007

Eleven former generals have just published a report warning that global warming poses a "serious threat" to U.S. national security" via increased severity…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 04/17/2007

Ethanolics never tire of telling us that the current ethanol mandate, President Bush's 20/10 program (requiring 20% or 35 billion gallons of the nation's motor…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 04/02/2007

A recent column (which came to my attention through Google news alerts) repackages stale alarums as news. The claim that global warming is killing Caribbean…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 03/27/2007

The Kyoto crowd crowed when the Senate, on June 22, 2005, voted 54-43 in favor of a Sense of the Senate resolution on climate…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 03/27/2007

Capitol Hill is on a global warming hearing binge. Al Gore made the big splash in terms of media coverage, but several recent testimonies merit…

Energy and Environment