The Environmental Protection Agency has published and solicited public comments on its draft rule reforming the benefit/cost analytic methodology applied to new regulations promulgated under the Clean Air Act (CAA). However boring…
By Benjamin Zycher | June 17, 2020
While genuflecting to its fiduciary responsibility to “promote long-term value” for those whose assets it is managing, Blackrock—the largest asset manager in the world—has announced in the form of a…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 14, 2020
No — Carbon taxes and green policies harm economic growth and jobs The close relationships between real gross domestic product, employment and energy consumption for both less and more developed…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 6, 2020
Introduction. This note offers responses to the questions posed by Chairman Barrasso and Senator Whitehouse attendant upon the prepared statement for the record of Dr. Benjamin Zycher of the American…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 5, 2020
“Climate Action” is the theme of this 50th Earth Day, and it is useful to note that these five decades of apocalyptic warnings truly are amazing in their consistency: Not one actually has come…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 22, 2020
In a display of crass dishonesty shameless even by Beltway standards, the usual suspects in the environmental left, led by the ineffable Al Gore, have mischaracterized, blatantly, a temporary policy change on…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 18, 2020
The crude oil sector now is confronted by a sharp decline in demand conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in production attendant upon the price feud between…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 13, 2020
The Committee on Environment and Public Works of the U.S. Senate is considering the proposed bill S. 2754, the “American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2019,” (hereafter “AIM”) which would…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 8, 2020
In the Beltway, no inefficient policy deed goes unrewarded. That is an eternal truth illustrated well by the expansion of federal powers—at the expense of state and local authority—attendant upon…
By Benjamin Zycher | February 19, 2020
As night follows day, my recent post on the near-zero climate effect of the methane emitted by feral camels in Australia elicited a torrent of criticism from all the usual suspects, in…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 21, 2020
The New York Supreme Court announced its landmark decision earlier this month in the first climate change-related securities lawsuit—“People of the State of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corporation”—to be…
By Benjamin Zycher | December 20, 2019
One number is needed to illustrate the absurdity that is the Paris climate agreement: 0.17 degree Celsius. That is the temperature reduction in 2100 attendant upon the Paris greenhouse gas…
By Benjamin Zycher | November 12, 2019
I wrote recently about the new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released as a “Summary for Policymakers” of “Global Warming of 1.5°C,” a deeply politicized document that makes the…
By Benjamin Zycher | November 1, 2019
“Renewable” electricity — predominantly wind and solar power — is all the rage, described by numerous commentators, politicians, pundits, journalists, and other such “experts” as cost-competitive, clean, and a major…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 12, 2019
My friend and former colleague Irwin M. Stelzer has written a short but interesting essay on climate policy, arguing that by asking the right question we will be oriented toward a useful…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 10, 2019