“The times they are a-changing,” in particular in the context of “climate” policies and initiatives. And they are not changing favorably for the ideological opponents of fossil fuels, that is,…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 28, 2026
Alex Flint and Kalee Kreider admit that ordinary central planning won’t reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet despite “the incredible ingenuity of people and markets,” they suggest a different form of central planning is needed:…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 31, 2025
The rapid rise of generative AI has triggered a sharp escalation in data center electricity consumption, with profound implications for national energy use, system planning, and climate goals. Data centers…
By Lynne Kiesling | Rachel Lomasky | April 28, 2025
One would think that Republicans would know better. One would think that Republicans from an important oil- and gas-producing state would know better. One would think, or hope, that they would prioritize…
By Benjamin Zycher | March 26, 2025
Donald Trump promised tariffs, and he delivered, imposing by executive fiat tariffs of 25 percent on imports from Canada (10 percent on Canadian energy) and Mexico and 10 percent on imports from…
By Benjamin Zycher | February 19, 2025
The “clean energy transition” — the wholesale replacement of conventional (for the most part fossil) energy with such unconventional technologies as wind and solar power — has been the raison d’être for…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 12, 2025
This summer, Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso’s Energy Permitting Reform Act passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee by a 15-4 vote and the House of…
By James W. Coleman | Thomas Hochman | October 29, 2024
AEI Scholar Benjamin Zycher contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Regulatory Policy Experts: Both Harris and Trump Threaten Constraints on Innovation, as a group of experts outlined the many ways in…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 23, 2024
My AEI colleague Roger Pielke Jr. argues in a recent post that “Joe Biden Is the ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ President,” by virtue of the time trend for U.S. oil production…
By Benjamin Zycher | September 16, 2024
It might seem difficult to take positions on a prominent issue diametrically opposed and equally preposterous. But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a man whose Pavlovian opposition to the U.S. fossil…
By Benjamin Zycher | July 17, 2024
Oh, what a tangled web they weave when first the managers of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the New York State Common Retirement Fund practice to have it both ways. The problem…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 29, 2024
It is another day ending in “y” in the Beltway, and with it we have another “climate crisis” attack on the oil and gas companies — the very ones that…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 14, 2024
In an otherwise useful reminder of why the much-ballyhooed “transition” to unconventional energy won’t happen anytime soon—because the massive attendant costs can’t be borne by most of the world’s people…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 14, 2024
That the environmental left is relentless is not news, but the current machinations on policies intended to suppress fossil energy production in Colorado are fascinating. Under a compromise being negotiated between Gov. Jared…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 7, 2024
A federal judge recently issued an injunction to block the approval of a powerline that would have connected 161 renewable energy projects to the electric grid, providing more clean energy to consumers…
By James W. Coleman | Arnab Datta | April 28, 2024