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October 29, 2024
The Energy Permitting Reform Act Doesn’t Go Far Enough
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 Representatives is now working on passing its own permitting reform. Both bills reflects a growing bipartisan consensus that after years of bottlenecks and delays to…
October 23, 2024
Both Harris and Trump Pose Problems for U.S. Energy Producers.
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 which either potential administration’s understanding of how regulation of technology can impede innovation and threaten America’s dominance in that sector. Below is a section from Benjamin Zycher’s contribution. For…
October 7, 2024
Are Hurricanes Getting Worse?
That “climate change” — undefined and usually unquantified — is making weather patterns more adverse is a given among the chattering classes, but it always is useful to examine the actual underlying data. A prominent example appeared in a recent column in The Hill, in which reporter Rachel Frazin argues that “Climate change is making hurricanes like Hurricane Helene more…
September 30, 2024
The Central Trump and Harris Dangers Are Monstrous
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris presidencies would engender political and policy outcomes monstrous in very different ways. Donald Trump is a thoroughly despicable man, a narcissist, and abject liar devoid of dignity and incapable of consistent behavior worthy of the presidency. Even now when a George Costanza-type “opposite” suppression of his instincts would advance…
September 16, 2024
Is Joe Biden the “Drill, Baby, Drill” President?
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 on federal lands (onshore and offshore) for 2008-2023. In summary, Pielke reproduces the data on oil production from federal lands as reported by the U.S….
September 16, 2024
Punish the Administrators, Not the Researchers, for Campus Antisemitism
It is never wise to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But that is the perverse prospect we now face because of the striking failure of many college and university officials to confront campus antisemitism, both during the last academic year and now as the students return to campus. Political decisionmakers who view the performance of the administrators as unacceptable…
August 5, 2024
Letter to the Editor: The Benefits of Carbon Emissions Outweigh the Costs
FacebookTwitterLinkedIn In a useful op-ed pointing out the endless series of falsehoods promoted by climate alarmists over the years (“Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions,” Aug. 1), Bjorn Lomborg asserts that “climate economics generally finds that the costs of [man-made emissions] outweigh the benefits.” That is not correct. The economic models for the most part…
July 17, 2024
Sen. Whitehouse’s Attacks on Fossil Energy Producers Are Incoherent
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 energy producers has led him into incoherence rare even by Beltway standards, has achieved just such a magical trick. Whitehouse, the chairman of the Senate…
May 29, 2024
Managers of Large Public Retirement Funds Need to Grow a Backbone
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 is the demand from the environmental Left that the retirement funds divest from fossil fuel producers. On the one hand, the fund managers have legally enforceable fiduciary…
May 14, 2024
Another Day, Another Mindless Attack on Fossil Energy Producers
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 produce efficient energy for the great mass of Americans and, indeed, the world. The latest example of this game of pin the climate blame on the energy…