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Keystone XL And Natural Gas Provide Energy Trade Opportunities
Image Credit – Jim West/ZUMA Press/Newscom By Nicolas Loris ~ In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “If we continue to let our trade policy be dictated by special interests, then...
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Carbon (And Practically Everything Else) Just Got More Expensive
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ Image Credit – Newscom The Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a rule at the end of May that mandates the amount of energy microwaves can use on standby mode starting in...
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Energy Budget Cuts Are Attack On Subsidies, Not Science
By Nicolas Loris ~ House Members who are proposing cuts to the Department of Energy (DOE) budget are facing bogus criticism that the cuts are an attack on science. The reality is that the cuts are...
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Court Kicks Yucca Mountain Review Back In Motion
By Katie Tubb ~ Image Credit – Newscom Despite the politics surrounding Yucca Mountain and the Obama Administration’s policy to terminate the project, a federal court today held the executive branch to...
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What’s Another $45 Million At The Energy Department?
By Nicolas Loris ~ Image Credit – Newscom The Department of Energy (DOE) announced it is spending $45 million of taxpayer money for 38 different projects for advanced transportation technologies. But...
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Obama’s War On Energy Is NOT “Unbelievably Small” At All!
New study vindicates fracking; Climate Change is dead; yet Obama slams the door on coal mining! By Marita Noon ~ Look closely at the energy-related news stories of the past dozen or so days, and,...
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Time To Stock Up On Incandescent Bulbs Before They Go Out Permanently
By Nicolas Loris ~ If your New Year’s resolution is to change your light bulbs, don’t worry—the federal government’s here to help. Beginning January 1, 2014, the federal government will ban the use of...
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The Clean Air Act: EPA’s Charade To Justify Its War On Coal Plants
Neither the science nor the current technological capability supports the EPA’s Carbon Dioxide rules for new coal fired power plants. By Larry Bell ~ The Environmental Protection Agency didn’t let a...
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DOE’s Manufacturing Innovation Is $70 Million Corporate Welfare Giveaway
By Nicolas Loris ~ The Obama Administration recently announced that $70 million of your taxpayer dollars will be spent over the next five years on a public-private manufacturing innovative initiative....
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Department Of Energy: Working Hard To Give Away Your Money
By Nicolas Loris ~ Photo: Newscom This week the Department of Energy announced that it will make as much as $4 billion in loan guarantees available for renewable and energy efficiency projects that...
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Congress Is Voting On Efficiency Legislation Next Week. Here’s Why It’s Bad News
By Nicolas Loris ~ Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio; and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. (Photo: Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Newscom) The Senate is expected to vote on the Energy Savings and Industrial and...
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The Cure For Climate Change Is Far Worse Than The Disease
By Nicolas Loris ~ Photo: Pete Souza Manmade greenhouse gas emissions already are causing gloom and doom and adversely affecting our way of life. That’s the conclusion of the National Climate...
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NRC Final Rule: Nothing More Than A Patch For A Broken System
By Jack Spencer and Katie Tubb ~ The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to finalize its “continued storage” rule, establishing a general recognition that onsite storage of spent nuclear fuel is...
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Dopey Regulations Keep On Coming
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ Photo: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. In his recent speech about the economy, President Obama noted that “there are still some kind of dopey regulations on the...
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Progress Made On Nuclear Waste Management
By Jack Spencer and Katie Tubb ~ The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) yesterday completed the last two of five volumes in its safety evaluation report on a nuclear waste repository at Yucca...
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Why This Economist Wants Government To Stop Wasting Money On Alternative Energy
By Jamie Jackson ~ On Tuesday, a House Science subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the Department of Energy. The Heritage Foundation’s Nick Loris was on hand to testify that the agency continues...
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New Report: Energy Department’s Loans, Loans Guarantees Costing Taxpayers...
By Nicolas Loris ~ Despite many politicians hailing green energy programs as a success, taxpayers are likely to take a $2.21 billion hit for the Department of Energy’s loan and loan guarantee programs,...
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Nuclear Industry, Not Government, Should Handle Nuclear Waste Issue
By Katie Tubb ~ By law, the Department of Energy is supposed to collect spent nuclear fuel and deposit it at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. Nuclear power customers in 33 states have paid billions of dollars...
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Why Wind Energy Is Not Going To Meet All Our Energy Needs
By Katie Tubb ~ The Department of Energy released its annual Wind Technologies Market Report last week, and the headline is roughly the same as years past: wind is great…and getting greater, but it...
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Head Of EPA Admits Climate Regulations Will Hit Low-Income Minority Families...
By Nicolas Loris ~ The chief environmental regulator in the United States had some blunt words of reality regarding the administration’s climate change regulations. The Clean Power Plan that will...
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Obama’s New Climate Rules Will Hurt Poor, Minority Americans The Most
By Nicolas Loris ~ “We know that low-income, minority communities would be hardest hit.” That’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, speaking about the higher energy prices that...
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The Fraud Factor Of Obama’s New Climate Agenda
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ Recently, President Obama visited Alaska to scare up support for his climate agenda. But it’s becoming clear that this agenda is not, in fact, about climate. Instead, it’s...
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GOP Senator’s Energy Bill Is Not So ‘Clean’
By Katie Tubb ~ Some Senate appropriators are already settling for business as usual going into the federal budget process. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has stated only a “clean” energy and water...
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The Government Wants To Regulate Your Portable Air Conditioner
By Nicolas Loris ~ Congratulations, portable air conditioner buyers and sellers. This product now qualifies for… government regulation! The Department of Energy (DOE) recently determined that portable...
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The Lifting Of This Oil Ban Could Add 800,000 New Jobs
By Nicolas Loris ~ Since Congress lifted the long-standing ban on crude oil exports, U.S. companies are taking advantage and Americans are reaping the benefits. This example shows how free market...
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What’s Wrong With The Government’s Mandating Of Energy Efficiency
By Katie Tubb and Nicolas Loris and Paul J. Larkin Jr. ~ The Obama administration’s Department of Energy has churned through a list of energy efficiency regulations before the next administration. Just...
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What Rick Perry Could Do To Prevent Future Solyndras
By Nicolas Loris ~ Departing Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz has announced a conditional loan guarantee for a fossil fuel project—a blatant, taxpayer-backed subsidy of up to $2 billion for Lake...
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When Energy Efficiency Rules Hurt The Public And The Environment
By Arthur Corbin ~ Over the last several years, an extreme and ideologically-driven environmental agenda has hijacked our national energy policy. Whether its goal is to keep fossil fuels in the ground...
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How Rick Perry Can Free Up US Energy From Government Favoritism
By Nicolas Loris ~ Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently had his confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, President-elect Donald...
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Trump’s Budget Takes A Cleaver To Cronyism And Waste At The Energy Department
By Katie Tubb and Nicolas Loris ~ President Donald Trump released his budget blueprint today, and his proposal for the Department of Energy is a breath of fresh air. This proposal reflects the...
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Trump Eyes Politicized Climate, Energy Budgets
Trimming the climate fat and refocusing on authorized agency missions By Larry Bell ~ The Trump Administration is taking a cool fiscal position on feverish global warming alarm-driven regulatory...
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Government Funding Won’t Address Western Water Issues
By Nicolas Loris ~ Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Sometimes, members of Congress have the memories of goldfish. One such example is a taxpayer-backed subsidy program for...
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A First Look At Energy Issues In Trump’s Budget
By Katie Tubb and Nicolas Loris ~ President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal calls for a number of energy policy reforms, some good and some bad. Some of the highlights include opening...
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Energy Department Looks At Green Impact On Power Grid
By Fred Lucas ~ Energy Secretary Rick Perry said the upcoming Department of Energy study on power grid’s reliability is needed to address the facts after the Obama administration placed a premium on...
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Rick Perry’s Plans For US Energy Dominance
By Fred Lucas ~ America is approaching energy independence, but still needs to remove obstacles, Energy Secretary Rick Perry says. “We are very close to being energy independent,” Perry told The Daily...
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New Study On Electricity Grid Suggests The Need For Market Reforms
By Nicolas Loris ~ The Department of Energy recently released its much-anticipated report on electricity markets and grid reliability. Much like the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match,...
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New Bill Would Stop Energy Department From Risking Taxpayer Money
By Nicolas Loris ~ This week, Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, introduced the DOE Loan Program Repeal Act, which would prohibit the Department of Energy from offering new government-backed loan guarantees...
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5 Ways Energy Dominance Can Bolster Trump’s National Security Strategy
By Nicolas Loris ~ The Trump administration’s new national security strategy emphasizes the importance of a strong economy to enhance national security. “America’s central position in the global energy...
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Now Is Congress’ Prime Opportunity To Act On Nuclear Waste
By Katie Tubb ~ Congress has pushed through a series of five stopgap measures to fund the government, and is now in final negotiations for a trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill to cover the rest of...
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A Government Loan Program For Auto Manufacturers On Road To Repeal
By Nicolas Loris ~ Among programs on the chopping block in the White House’s new plan to cut more than $15 billion in wasteful government spending is the Department of Energy’s loan program for certain...
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How ‘Green’ Energy Subsidies Transfer Wealth To The Rich
By Nicolas Loris and Bryan Cosby ~ When the Golden State Warriors, who won three of the last four NBA championships, signed All-Star Demarcus Cousins, sports pundits across the country offered the same...
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The U.S. Government Is Still The UN’s Top Climate Alarmist
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ President Trump and Energy Secretary Perry are both vocal skeptics of climate change alarmism, but the US Energy Department is still running one of the top drivers of alarmist...
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3 Takeaways From Trump’s Energy Budget Proposal
By Katie Tubb ~ We can’t ignore the numbers when talking about the federal budget. Twenty-two trillion dollars in the hole is a scary place to be, and President Donald Trump’s budget proposes some good...
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Here’s The Dam Deal: Power America’s Dams
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ CFACT’s recent article “What’s the Dam Deal?” by Grace Cancelmo raises important questions about expanding the use of dams for hydropower and other useful purposes. The US...
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It’s Lights Out For Obama-Era Bulb Ban That Would Have Curbed Consumer Choice
By Nicolas Loris ~ The Department of Energy announced this week that it’s withdrawing the Obama administration’s energy-rationing mandate for certain lightbulbs. Opponents criticized the rule change,...
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DOE Should Revive The Office Of Policy Analysis
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Now that Rick “do nothing” Perry is quitting as U.S. Secretary of Energy, there is an opportunity do do something truly useful. My proposal is to re-establish the Office of...
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Don’t Expand Federal Energy Loan Programs. Unplug Them.
By Nicolas Loris ~ Amid the economic downturn caused by COVID-19, some in Congress are calling for more stimulus programs to jump-start and sustain an economic recovery. President Barack Obama smiles...
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Regifting The Nuclear Bailout
By Katie Tubb ~ Americans across the political spectrum didn’t take it well in 2018 when the Department of Energy tried to coerce them into buying electricity from nuclear power plants under its...
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Latest Appliance Energy-Efficiency Mandate Equals Fewer Consumer Choices,...
By Rachael Wilfong ~ How many energy-efficiency mandates are too many? The correct answer is zero. With its dishwasher energy-efficiency proposal, the Biden administration continues to impose its green...
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Could Federal Courts Roll Back Climate Regulatory Overreach?
By Collister Johnson ~ The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has recently decided two cases which indicate that federal district courts are prepared to roll back the relentless onslaught...
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