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Wall Street Journal

How to Beat the High Cost of Cooling

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/24/2025

President Trump doesn’t hide his dislike of federal appliance regulations, from water-stingy shower heads that he says make it difficult “to take care of my…

Energy and Environment

WSJ Opinion

How to Beat the High Cost of Cooling

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/24/2025

President Trump doesn’t hide his dislike of federal appliance regulations, from water-stingy shower heads that he says make it difficult “to take care of my…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Trump’s Energy Department is taking back our home appliances from berserk bureaucrats

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/16/2025

In quite possibly the sharpest regulatory U-turn thus far in 2025, the Trump Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to roll back home appliance regulations…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Biden’s leftover regulations will decide your next light bulb unless Trump stops them

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/04/2025

Americans have shown a real dislike for the wave of federal regulations targeting home appliances. Even more infuriating is the fact that our…

Energy and Environment

City Journal

Home Appliance Regulations Are Out of Control

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/14/2025

President Trump hates federal home appliance regulations as much as President Biden loved them. And now Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has taken the first…

Deregulation

Op-Eds

Affordable Housing – How Donald Trump Could Accomplish More Than Jimmy Carter

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/20/2025

The passing of Jimmy Carter sparked much praise for his post-presidency good deeds, particularly his decades of volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity building homes…

Business and Government

Fox News

Biden-Harris still hate your gas stove, you won’t believe how much

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/30/2024

The Biden-Harris administration insists that gas stoves are not being targeted. Don’t believe a word of it.   This kitchen controversy erupted in…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

5 insane Biden-Harris appliance regulations heading your way

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/20/2024

It took an angry public reaction against proposed federal restrictions on gas stoves to get the Biden-Harris administration regulators to reconsider. But that…

Deregulation

Human Progress

Appliances Contribute to Human Progress—but Regulations Threaten Their Affordability

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/19/2024

Summary: Home appliances have drastically improved human life, from preventing heat-related deaths with air conditioning to making household tasks more efficient with washing machines and…

Deregulation

The Washington Examiner

Inflation has spread to your air conditioner, and federal regulations are the cause

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 07/11/2024

Fourth of July kicks off the hottest two-month stretch of the year in the United States, and for much of the nation, it…

Wall Street Journal

Biden Is Coming for Your Air Conditioner

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/06/2024

Your next new home air conditioner could set you back $12,000 or more, with federal regulators contributing to the rising cost of staying cool. Before…

Energy

The Hill

The right way to neutralize China’s unfair economic advantage on climate

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/24/2024

There’s a big push in Congress to eliminate any competitive edge handed to China as a result of domestic and international climate change policies. The…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Why gas stove owners should still be worried

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/08/2024

In response to a strong public backlash, the Biden administration Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to backtrack on its proposed new energy efficiency regulation of stoves…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Biden anti-consumer crusade targets 4 more types of appliances

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/27/2023

2023 was an unusually bad year for appliance regulations, and future years won’t be much better unless Congress finds a way to stop…

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Biden turns the lights out on yet another one of your home’s essentials

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/11/2023

Don’t expect to see incandescent light bulbs for sale anymore. They are now an illegal product thanks to a Biden administration regulation, and…

Energy

Fox News

Biden’s new crackdown on another appliance will be worse than gas stoves

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 07/31/2023

We have seen a big consumer backlash in 2023 over Biden administration bureaucrats targeting gas stoves, but that could pale in comparison to…

Energy

Human Progress

Three Cheers for Refrigeration—and Four, Once Everyone Has It

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 07/17/2023

It is difficult to overstate the benefits of refrigeration. Even more than its technological sibling air conditioning, refrigeration has dramatically improved public health and the…

Consumer Choice

Fox News

Washington State’s Nation-Leading Gasoline Prices Should Serve as a Warning

  • By: Ben Lieberman, George Murray
  • 07/10/2023

Vacationers hitting the highways currently face a nationwide average price of $3.52 per gallon of gasoline, according AAA. However, the price varies widely among states. California usually…

Energy and Environment

Wall Street Journal

Biden Cracks Down on Gas Stoves—and Much More

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/10/2023

Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. fired a shot heard ’round America in January when he informed the public of his agency’s plans for natural-gas…

Climate

Fox News

Biden’s Cold War: Anti-Air Conditioner Regulations Keep Piling Up

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/02/2023

Think Biden administration regulators have it in for gas stoves? Just wait until you learn what they have in store for air conditioners.

Deregulation

Fox News

5 ways Biden is still coming for your gas stove

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/13/2023

Who knew President Joe Biden hated gas stoves so much? Not only does he have multiple federal agencies targeting them, but he is also going…

Consumer Choice

Real Clear Energy

Joe Biden’s Opposition to Natural Gas Hits Home

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/24/2023

There’s no doubt that the Biden Administration is fully on board with the climate activist community’s war on the natural gas industry. From slow walking…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Biden Admin’s Gas Stove Crusade Is Just A Preview Of What’s To Come

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/16/2023

It was an amazing media 180. Just days after a wave of stories about the threat to asthmatic children from natural gas stoves and the…

Energy

Op-Eds

Restrictions on Natural-Gas Stoves Are Climate Policy by Another Name

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/13/2023

It has been heartening to see the strong backlash to the recent announcement that the Biden administration’s Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was considering restrictions and…

Climate

The Boston Herald

Lieberman: Whales on losing side of wind energy

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/20/2022

Environmentalists want to crack down on the Maine lobster industry in the name of protecting endangered whales, but they turn a blind eye to the…

Energy

Fox News

5 Reasons to drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge instead of draining petroleum reserve

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/23/2022

In response to continued high gasoline prices, President Joe Biden recently announced an extension of withdrawals of about 1 million barrels per day from the Strategic Petroleum…

Climate

National Review

Biden Regulators Are Coming for Your Furnace

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/21/2022

The Biden administration is not known for its light-handed regulatory touch, and so we should not be surprised that its efforts have included unhelpful initiatives targeting …

Energy and Environment

The Daily Caller

A Little-Known UN Treaty Is A Raw Deal For America And The Senate Can’t Wait To Pass It

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/17/2022

It’s the worst United Nations treaty that you’ve never heard of, and the Senate is on the verge of ratifying it. The Kigali Amendment is bad…

Energy and Environment

National Review

The Skyrocketing Cost of Staying Cool This Summer — and Future Ones

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/26/2022

Add air conditioning to the long list of items experiencing inflation under the Biden administration. Whether it is fixing your home’s existing system or buying a…

Regulatory Reform

Fox News

Washington’s war on air conditioning heats up

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/20/2022

It’s the scariest moment of the year for many homeowners – that first really hot day, usually in May, when we turn…

Energy and Environment

Desert Sun

Gas Station Owners, Oil Companies Are Not to Blame for High Gas Prices

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/05/2022

Whenever the price at the pump increases, so does the finger-pointing, but much of the blame game over high gasoline prices is neither accurate nor…

Energy

Inside Sources

Who NOT to Blame for High Gasoline Prices

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/24/2022

Whenever the price at the pump increases, so does the finger-pointing, but much of the blame game over high gasoline prices is neither accurate nor…

Energy

The Washington Examiner

Will Ukraine Invasion Spark Another Trans-Alaska Pipeline Moment?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/18/2022

Could Russia’s invasion of Ukraine convince the Biden administration to abandon its opposition to increased domestic oil and natural gas production? It seems doubtful, but…

Energy

Inside Sources

Russia’s Invasion Impact Hits Beyond Oil to Mining and Metals

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/10/2022

Much has been said about the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on oil and natural gas markets and the lessons for American energy policy.

Energy

The Wall Street Journal

A Regulatory Burden for Every Room of Your House

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/20/2022

Skyrocketing inflation, empty store shelves, rising crime and endless Covid restrictions have been grabbing headlines, but lesser-noticed regulatory mischief from the Biden administration may prove…

Deregulation

The Washington Examiner

Biden Declares War on Showerheads

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/03/2021

President Joe Biden may lack the authority to reach into your shower and turn the dial down in order to save water. Still,…

Consumer Choice

Inside Sources

Dakota Access Pipeline Brings Power To The People

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/10/2021

Activists opposed to American energy projects like the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline often pretend that the impacted communities are solidly on their side. In reality,…

Energy

Real Clear Policy

Is Joe Biden Coming After Your Air Conditioner?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/18/2021

America’s air conditioning season is underway, and millions of unlucky homeowners whose systems break down between now and the fall will be in for an…

Energy

Inside Sources

Is the Biden Administration Coming After Your Air Conditioner?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/11/2021

We’re reaching the point where it is easier to list the things the Biden administration isn’t doing in the name of fighting climate change. One such Environmental…

Energy

The Post-Journal

Why So Many Subsidies For Electric Vehicles?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/27/2021

If electric vehicles (EVs) are as fantastic as claimed, why do they need so many government handouts? Proponents of EVs are increasingly using the “I Word” —…

Transportation

Inside Sources

If electric vehicles (EVs) are as fantastic as claimed, why do they need so many government handouts?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/23/2021

Proponents of EVs are increasingly using the “I Word” – inevitability. They say EVs make too much sense for consumers, not to mention the planet,…

Energy and Environment

Inside Sources

Biden Attack on Keystone Pipeline Bodes Ill For Jobs, Economy

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/24/2021

Among the list of things President Joe Biden has reportedly promised to do immediately upon taking office is reversing President Donald Trump’s…

Energy and Environment

Inside Sources

5 Reasons Trump Is Right to Save Incandescent Light Bulbs

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/10/2019

Americans will have more freedom of choice now that the Trump administration’s Department of Energy has set about undoing Obama-era regulations targeting incandescent light bulbs in favor…

Consumer Freedom

Inside Sources

Air Conditioning – Saving Lives but Getting No Love

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/24/2019

Every summer brings heat waves, but recent summers have also brought waves of criticisms about air conditioning. We are told that it is unnecessary, unhealthy and…

Consumer Freedom

Daily Caller

Trump May Adopt an Obama-Era Climate Policy

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/31/2019

Believe it or not, the Trump administration is seriously considering entering into a global environmental treaty that was a key part of the Obama climate…

Fox News

Ben Lieberman: There’s a new addition to the list of enemies of the planet — buildings (yes, buildings!)

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/23/2019

Environmentalists and their friends in Congress dislike an ever-expanding list of materials and industries American families rely on, from fossil fuels to vehicles to logging,…

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

LIEBERMAN: Trump May Adopt An Obama-Era Climate Policy

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/17/2019

Believe it or not, the Trump administration is seriously considering entering into a global environmental treaty that was a key part of the Obama climate…

Climate

The Washington Examiner

The Inefficiency of Efficiency: Appliance Standards Often Cost More Than They Save

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/06/2019

It is hard to find anything in Washington more inefficient than an efficiency standard for home appliances. Each standard can require more than 30 bureaucratic…

Energy

Morning Consult

Washington’s War on Air Conditioning

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/02/2018

Washington, D.C., is a heavily air-conditioned city. Summers here are hot and very humid, and each workday, an army of politicians and bureaucrats makes the…

Consumer Freedom

Morning Consult

No Comfort and Joy Over Holiday Gas Prices

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/02/2011

It wasn’t a very merry Christmas for America’s motorists, as pump prices averaged $3 per gallon nationwide for the first time since 2008. President Obama’s…

Energy and Environment

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