Energy & Environment
Learning from the energy lessons of history
A more likely candidate for the greatest risk to our prosperity, freedom and security is neither terrorism nor warming temperatures.
November 19, 2015
Energy & Environment
Here’s what will not be discussed at the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Paris
Temperatures have not warmed as predicted by the models over the last 18 years. And extreme weather events have not been more frequent or more intense than in the 20th century.
November 18, 2015
Energy & Environment
For EPA’s ozone standard, no cost is too high, no risk too low
The newly adopted standard, which has been pending since 2011 when the White House yanked back the rule at a cost of $90 billion annually, joins at least 20 other EPA rules of unprecedented scope, stringency and cost promulgated under the Obama administration.
October 7, 2015
Energy & Environment
Cleaning the air on climate change
CO2 is an odorless, invisible, beneficial, and natural gas lacking any characteristics of a pollutant.
September 29, 2015
Energy & Environment
EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Europe’s folly
The agency apparently has concluded that building new natural gas plants will delay achieving the ultimate goal of decarbonization, an objective casually asserted by President Obama.
August 31, 2015
Energy & Environment
The Clean Power Plan bursts the boundaries of regulatory authority
There is no wiggle room for give and take on the EPA’s seizure of the electric power sector.
August 10, 2015
Energy & Environment
Have faith in the shale gale
For the first time in 50 years, world oil markets are beginning to hover around the U.S. rather than OPEC.
July 14, 2015
Energy & Environment
Liberty is a vital part of human ecology, here’s hoping Pope Francis understands that
Such prosperity also led to dramatic environmental improvements. Sustained economic growth enabled huge investment in technologies that have dramatically reduced pollution.
June 26, 2015
Energy & Environment
Pope Francis’s poverty and environment ideas will worsen both
As the twentieth century so tragically demonstrates, 'common plans' inevitably enforced through totalitarian polity lead to environmental squalor, poverty, and denial of inherent worth of the individual.
June 25, 2015
Energy & Environment
Civilization’s greatest threat: Islamist terror or climate policy?
Our president repeatedly asserts that climate change – which now apparently means little more than bad weather - is the greatest and more immediate threat to humanity.
April 3, 2015
Energy & Environment
Without the energy revolution, job growth would drag
Average electricity prices for companies spiked across the EU — 54% in Germany, for instance, over the five years 2009-2013 because of costs passed along as part of government renewable energy mandates.
March 12, 2015
Other
Oped: In EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Texas is the Target
Recently, the Texas legislature devoted two days of hearings to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which was proposed last June. This rule aims to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide from existing power plants by 30 percent. Although opinions widely vary in the testimony, one thing was clear: the EPA’s plan assigns to Texas a regulatory...
December 9, 2014