The Greeley Tribune
Yeatman-Cooke: The Math Behind Xcel’s ‘Colorado Energy Plan’ Defies Reality and History
Xcel Energy recently announced that it would use Gov. John Hickenlooper’s July executive order calling for climate change policy as reason to bypass the Colorado…
The Denver Post
Colorado’s Costly “Demand-Side Management” Bill Makes No Sense
At the end of the legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly had an opportunity to stop a nonsensical electricity program that will cost Xcel Energy…
Washington Examiner
EPA has been neglecting clean air to freelance on climate change
While critics and supporters alike pore over President Trump’s proposed federal budget to pinpoint programs that will suffer and savings that will benefit taxpayers, President…
Sun Sentinel
Counterpoint: Flimsiness of Obama’s regulatory legacy telling
President Obama’s regulatory-based legacy will be easy to unravel because most anything one president can do unilaterally, a subsequent president can undo. The flimsiness of…
Sun Sentinel
Thomas Friedman, Phone Home
In his ceaseless efforts to boost green energy, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has engaged in propaganda that is so blatant and so bogus…
The Wall Street Journal
Obama’s Electric Car Money Grab
A federal judge last week approved a $14.7 billion settlement to partially resolve the legal fallout over Volkswagen’s installation of “defeat devices” designed to cheat…
The Denver Post
Like Obama, Hickenlooper using heavy-handed tactics on climate policy
On climate change, is Gov. John Hickenlooper ripping a page directly from President Obama’s authoritarian playbook? Obama dodged global warming during his reelection campaign, only…
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Texas faces real harm from EPA’s Invisible Haze rule
Texas recently got a temporary reprieve from an ineffective, staggeringly costly mandate imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. Court of Appeals for…
Real Clear Policy
House Moves to Take Back Ozone Policymaking
Last Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a long overdue bill to take back air quality policymaking from the most powerful and unaccountable government…
The Salt Lake Tribune
EPA’s expensive haze solution won’t produce detectable difference
Seven hundred million dollars. That's how much of your money that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is willing to throw away for nothing. This is…
Coal Blog
EPA’s Clean Power Plan Does Not Deserve Judicial Respect
On August 3rd, President Obama announced his administration’s signature global warming policy, known as the Clean Power Plan. In the simplest of terms, the Clean…
The Albuquerque Journal
PRC should fight EPA on haze rules
$115 million. That’s how much of your money the Public Regulation Commission could throw away for nothing. This is no joke. In order to comply…
US News
The Clean Power Plan’s Dirty Secret
The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it would finalize three enormous rules regulating carbon emissions this summer, as a part of the Obama administration’s plan…
National Review
Access Is Power
The foxes are running the henhouse at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In academic parlance, this is a textbook example of “regulatory capture” —…
The Hill
House Looks at ‘Sue and Settle’
Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has scheduled floor action this week on H.R. 2279, the Reducing Excessive Deadline Obligations (REDO) Act. ‘Redo’ is…
Capital Research
The EPA’s War Against the States: States are supposed to lead in fighting pollution, but federal bureaucrats have usurped the states’ role
Full Document Available in PDF Summary: Congress intended the Environmental Protection Agency to work closely with state and local officials—those nearest to…
Wall Street Journal
Letter to the Editor: Ron Binz Doesn’t Seem to Like Most Power Producers
It should come as no surprise that industry insiders, lobbyists and special-interest groups support Ron Binz, President Obama's choice to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory…
The American Spectator
EPA Growth Knows No Limits
This op-ed was co-written by Todd Wynn at the American Legislative Exchange Council. Last week, President Obama rolled out a climate plan fit…
Denver Post
Is Colorado’s “new energy economy” still viable in light of recent setbacks in the industry? No
It's been a rough stretch for Colorado's "new energy economy." Over the last few months, the Centennial State's green energy industry, which the new energy…
Capital Research
Attack of the Scare Ads!
(Published by Capital Research Center) Since Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a suite of…
Albuquerque Journal
Don’t Believe the EPA: PNM Ruling a Ripoff
Last Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency ran roughshod over New Mexico officials and imposed nearly $340 million in unjustified costs on PNM customers – in…
New York Post
Obama’s War on Coal
President Obama claims to see the need to create jobs at this time of endless 9-plus percent unemployment — yet his administration continues to…
Baltimore Sun
Blame Government, Not BGE, For Turning Off the AC
Ratepayers are steamed at Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. for turning off air conditioners in thousands of homes on July 22, the hottest day in…
Daily Caller
Green Investment Bank Should Make Taxpayers See Red
The White House and congressional Democrats are talking up a “green investment bank.” The House did the right thing by striking the notion from the continuing resolution.
The Sacramento Bee
Never Ready for Prime Time
Appeared…
Wall Street Journal
Energy Department’s Green Bank is a Waste of Money (Letter to the Editor)
Unfortunately for American taxpayers, the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program is even worse than the Journal thinks. Running a bank is outside the…
Wall Street Journal
Ritter Plan Tied to Phantom Carbon Tax
Ratepayers can’t see it on their bill, and they won’t hear about it from Gov. Bill Ritter. But a central component of his New Energy…
Wall Street Journal
The Real Cost of Being Green
Gov. Bill Ritter and green energy advocates are selling Colorado a false bill of goods when it comes to the “New Energy Economy.” They claim…
News OK
Smart Technology and the Electricity Market
In late June, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission determined that Oklahoma Gas & Electric could proceed with its smart grid strategy. As a result,…
National Review
Brownback’s Mountains
It looked like we had dodged a bullet. With an election looming, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) decided that a provision requiring…
Denver Daily News
Markets Should Drive Xcel, Not Social Values
Xcel Energy is getting a lot of grief over its new “tiered” rate increase Ń a.k.a., the air-conditioner tax Ń but the criticism is…
Baltimore Sun
Maryland’s Smart Grid Fiasco
Last month, the Public Service Commission rejected Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.'s "smart grid" proposal. From start to finish, the whole affair demonstrated everything that…
Denver Business Journal
Markets Should Drive State’s Energy Industry
Xcel Energy is getting a lot of grief over its new “tiered” rate increase—a.k.a., the air-conditioner tax—but the criticism is somewhat misplaced. It’s impossible…
Human Events
Movie Star Misses Mark on Mining
Movie stars with advocacy agendas are a menace to society. Their charisma, looks, and access to a mass audience make them natural persuaders, but…
American Spectator
Our Hero Barbara Boxer
We've spent a lot of time and, well, energy warning against costly carbon controls, yet we must admit the fruits of our earnest labors…
American Spectator
John Kerry’s Big Business Buyoff
When Senator John Kerry lent his name to a climate bill last fall, he probably didn't expect it to sink so fast. Opponents successfully…
The Hill
Regarding Climate, Kerry Should Heed the Science (Letter to the Editor)
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) argued his climate bill, the American Power Act, is a national security imperative, because climate change will inject “a new…
Washington Times
Pests Over People?
Just because coal is an inanimate object doesn't mean President Obama's war on coal avoids human casualties. I witnessed the collateral damage to coal-dependent…
L.A. Times
U.S. vs. China on Clean Energy (Letter to the Editor)
The story says "China overtook the United States for the first time last year in the race to invest" in clean energy — as…
AOL News
The Deadly Price of the Auto Mileage Mandate
The Obama administration just announced an increase in fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, ostensibly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global…
Fox News
EPA Green Police Mount Energy Assault
Get ready for the green police. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency will commit itself to becoming an environmentalist Big Brother, like a not-so-jolly green giant.
Daily News Record
Will Senators Webb, Warner Stop the EPA?
Virginia Senators. Mark Warner and Jim Webb are on the last line of defense between you and the green police. They are crucial swing votes…
Daily News Record
Cap-and-Trade Is Like a Zombie from a Bad Horror Movie
A bi-partisan Senate coalition killed costly carbon controls the first time they were introduced, in the summer of 2008. A year later, the…
National Review
Cap and Tax
A tripartisan trio of senators — John Kerry (D., Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.), and the New York Times’s favorite Republican environmentalist, Lindsey Graham (S.C.)…
Washington Times
Green Jobs Mirage
The Department of Energy has spent just 7 percent of the $37 billion it received from the stimulus for clean-energy subsidies, and already the Obama…
The Town Talk
Move-On is way off about Sen. Landrieu
Move-On, a far-left political advocacy organization, is running a media campaign claiming that Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu supports dirty air. In addition to being reprehensible…
Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star
Virginia AG Cuccinelli Takes on EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency's mission is to protect humans and the environment. But who protects humans from the EPA? The answer, in part, is Virginia…
American Spectator
You Stay Classy, Sacramento
In many countries, electric utilities struggle to keep up with demand, and often fail. The World Bank estimates that almost 1.5 billion men, women, and…
Amarillo Globe News
Texas Attorney General Abbott Takes on the EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. But who protects humans from the EPA? The answer, in part, is…
Fargo-Moorehead Forum
It’s Not a Dirty Air Act
A political advocacy coalition this week started a statewide advertising campaign warning North Dakotan Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad against voting for the “Dirty…
Grand Forks Herald
Let Congress Decide
A political advocacy coalition this week started a statewide advertising campaign warning North Dakotan Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad against voting for the “Dirty…
Ventura County Star
Partly Correct
Re: Thomas D. Elias’ Feb. 9 column, “Misguided opposition to AB32 and cap and trade”: Elias wrote that “doing something about greenhouse-gas emissions doesn’t necessarily…
Philadelphia Inquirer
Climate and Rogue States Not Smoothly Linked
Marshall Saunders argues that fighting climate change is important for national security because warmer temperatures will cause food and water crises in poor countries, thereby…
Washington Times
Secret Science from the CIA?
The CIA has reactivated a Clinton-era program, code-named MEDEA (Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis), that allows environmental scientists access to classified…
Washington Times
Green Jobs, or Pink Slips?
Jim Doyle last week unveiled his marquee energy initiative, the Clean Energy Jobs Act. He says the legislation would create “green jobs,”…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
UN Sponsored Sad Waste of Energy,Passion, and Money
President Barack Obama has declared that the outcome of the recent United Nations climate confab in Copenhagen—a/k/a the 15th Conference of the Parties…
New York Times
Letter to New York Times, “Assessing Outcome of Climate Talks”
To the Editor: Re ’’Copenhagen, and Beyond’’ (editorial, Dec. 21): You claim that the results of the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
EPA Delivers Lump of Coal to Appalachia
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, the Environmental Protection Agency would still investigate. This corny…
Washington Times
A Green Woodstock
Don't be fooled by the lavish media attention given to raucous anti-globalization types at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United National Framework…
Go Erie
Global Warming Conclusions Rapped
Penn State Behrend professor John Paul Rossi says “greenhouse gases are warming the planet at a rate that is growing faster even than the worst…
Orange County Register
Let the State Choose Your TV?
There are many things to consider when choosing a television to buy. Some consumers care about color contrast. Others want high resolution. And still others…
American Spectator
Kerry Looks for a Legacy
After cap-and-trade energy legislation cleared the first test in the House of Representatives this summer, it stalled in the world's most deliberative body. Then, John…
National Review
A Century Behind: Our Electricity Regulations Are Stuck in Progressive Era
It's the seemingly intractable problem of modern civilization: Americans need more electricity, they want lower greenhouse-gas emissions, and they want to get rid of ugly…
Washington Times
Solutions: How to Reduce Unemployment
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke recently said the recession is probably over, as third-quarter growth in gross domestic product will likely be positive. But…
Investors' Business Daily
Trading Jobs for Bugs in Coal Country
Mayflies are, by scientific classification, not long for this world. They belong to the order Ephemeroptera which means, roughly, "short lived, winged creatures." In their…
Forbes
America’s Power System is Powerless
America is a beacon of capitalism, so it can be jarring to discover one of its largest industries is a redoubt of socialism. State governments…
Washington Examiner
Greens Threaten American Indian Prosperity
Navajo Nation, the largest tribe in the United States, has faced a number of enemies in its long history: Anasazi warriors, Andrew Jackson and now,…
The Hill
Obama’s Expensive Energy Pledge
(Regarding July 22 op-ed, “False choice pits economy against the environment,” Special Report: Energy.) Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson notes that former President George…
RealClear World
A Real Choice on Climate Change: Do Nothing
Global efforts to mitigate climate change are resulting in the most ineffectual diplomacy since U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide…
Washington Times
Cap and Traitors
Conservative activists are angry at eight Republican members of the House of Representatives for voting in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act…
American Spectator
ACES Up Her Sleeve
Well before Barack Obama brought hope to the White House, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was adamant that something new and different and wonderful had arrived. In…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Rubbish and Bad Regulations
Ever since gas hit $4 a gallon on June 8 of last year, energy policy has been an all-consuming passion of America's political class. Thus,…
American Spectator
Farmer Brown Fights Back
To all appearances, green special interests are on a roll. They have managed to get committed environmentalists appointed to key congressional committees and regulatory positions.
International Affairs Forum
Climate Smart Aid Is Anything But
International organizations like the World Bank and the United Nations are supposed to help the world’s poor escape poverty, but fully convinced they are doing…
Fox News Opinion
California’s Sorry State Points to America’s Future
As goes California, so goes the nation. Nowhere is this adage truer than in environmental policy, thanks to Democrats’ eagerness to impose the Golden State’s…
Detroit News
Green Jobs Lead to More Pink Slips
Repower America, a green energy advocacy organization founded by Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, is running television advertisements in northern Michigan to…
Washington Examiner
Greenbacks for Green Energy Come from Taxpayer Pockets
President Barack Obama recently named business consultant Jeffrey Zients as head of a new performance office tasked with reducing government waste. The irony…
Townhall
Green Jobs: All Pain for No Gain
It is said that there is a scientific consensus on global warming. There isn’t, but there is an economic consensus that policies based on…
Townhall
Obama’s Energy Tax Hits Louisiana the Hardest
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Alexandria Town Talk
Obama’s Energy Tax Hits Louisiana Hardest
Candidate Barack Obama promised to give special attention to rebuilding Louisiana while campaigning for the White House. So why is President Obama pushing…
Council on Foreign Relations
Cap-and-Trade’s Economic Impact
A cap-and-trade system necessarily harms the economy because it is designed to raise the cost of energy. Given the current economic crisis,…
American Spectator
O’Malley’s Hot Air
This January, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley proposed legislation that he promised would fight climate change and "grow" the economy. This week, the state Senate passed…
American Spectator
The Doomsday Bias
In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama took a dig at his backward predecessor by promising to "restore science to its rightful…
DC Examiner
Green Glitterati High on California Scheming
President Barack Obama recently announced his first concrete environmental policy, and it was a doozy. Obama ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider…
Op-Eds
Laffer Gas
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Op-Eds
Clean Waste
In choosing Nobelist and alternative energy enthusiast Steve Chu as his nominee to head the Department of Energy (DOE), President-elect Barack Obama is saying…
Op-Eds
Power to the People
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Op-Eds
It’s All a Matter of Perspective
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Op-Eds
Green Jobs Program Won’t Work in New Jersey, or Anywhere Else
Last month, Gov. Jon S. Corzine became the latest politician to drink the "green jobs" Kool-Aid when he unveiled an "energy master plan," that…
Op-Eds
Green Jobs Costly for Michigan
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has been drinking the “green jobs” Kool-aid, recently announcing that she is creating an energy department and naming an…
Op-Eds
Climate Law No Cash Cow for California
It is said by many that there is a scientific consensus in support of global warming, but there is also an economic consensus…
Op-Eds
Putin’s Useful Idiots
In the latest issue of Foreign Policy William Yeatman explains how German environmentalists have helped Vladimir Putin fleece Europe.
Op-Eds
Government Meddling
Bryan K. Mignone isn’t telling the whole story when he claims that economically harmful climate-change-mitigation policies are necessary as an insurance against…
Op-Eds
Green Shackles
Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, chaffed for many years under the thumb of Soviet totalitarianism. In his new book, Blue Planet…
Op-Eds
EU’s Wrongheaded Climate Policy
Assuming that fighting climate change is desirable and that it can be effectively done by limiting man-made CO2 emissions, it is best achieved by making…
Op-Eds
Indefensible Biofuels
Advocates claim that ethanol mandates and subsidies protect our planet, enhance U.S. security, and ease our pain at the pump. In fact,…
Op-Eds
Bipartisan Lack Of Support
The Courant's June 9 editorial ["The Senate's Shame"] was wrong to imply that the leading climate legislation in Congress, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, failed…
Op-Eds
British lessons for Wisconsin
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, who says that global warming "demands aggressive action," last week signed an agreement with the United Kingdom "to…
Op-Eds
Biofuels Debate Heats Up
Ryan Radia and William Yeatman argue that support for bio-fuels is drying up as food costs rise and commodities markets destabilize.
Op-Eds
Ethanol’s Adding to Hunger in U.S.
Subsidies for ethanol production helps inflate the price of food, making it harder for poor families to eat.