Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate.
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
The environmental movement’s motivations are less about saving the planet and more about killing the global economy—while enriching themselves taxpayers’ expense.
Climate change has again moved to center stage. In his State of the Union address, President Obama stated, “But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do[...]
In Washington, policy wonks, Hill staff, lobbyists, and consultants love to follow bright, shiny objects. It’s not just a past time in the nation’s capital – it’s a way of[...]
We’ve doubled our use of renewable energy, and thousands of Americans have jobs today building wind turbines and long-lasting batteries. In the last year alone, we cut oil imports by[...]
The New Jersey legislature is considering legislation to ban winged, flying monkeys in the state. Wait a minute, I got that wrong – the New Jersey legislature is considering legislation[...]
Economics · Environment/Energy
I had the pleasure of appearing on the Butler on Business radio show yesterday to chat with Alan Butler and Jason Riddle about the EPA and the effect that particular[...]
Economics · Environment/Energy
Earlier this month, two Ohio economists published a paper downplaying the economic impacts of natural gas drilling in Ohio. They argued that optimistic employment projections should be shifted downwards and[...]
Environment/Energy · Politics · Regulation · Science
Those of you in the oil and gas industry are no doubt familiar with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s claim that fracking is a potential source of groundwater contamination, and[...]
Environment/Energy · Regulation · Taxes
In the coming days and weeks, the Pennsylvania legislature will consider the size and scope of an expected impact fee on hydraulically fractured natural gas well operators as part of[...]
Today The New York Times produced a special section on energy that acknowledged many of the facts that we at Heartland often repeat to deaf ears about job creation within[...]
With Chesapeake Energy’s announcement last month that exploratory shale gas wells in Northeast Ohio have shown promising returns, cities and municipalities in the region are beginning to prepare for the[...]
The vote to end the $6 billion in subsidies to ethanol producers reminded me how much Greens love us all. Surely only love could inspire taking corn and turning it[...]
Environment/Energy · FIRE · Regulation · Science
New York magazine’s blog reports today that Timespeople are defending the reporting of Ian Urbina’s story of June 27th: “Behind the Veneer: Doubts about Natural Gas.” The Times doesn’t want[...]
Ira Stoll at FutureofCapitalism.com has great stuff from the IPAA on the NYTimes attack on natural gas fracking. As the Internet’s most venerated vivisectionist of NY Times journalism, Stoll admires[...]
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