Back in the old days, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission took its mandate seriously — specifically, to provide: Economically Efficient, Safe, Reliable, and Secure Energy for Consumers . . . at…
By Benjamin Zycher | November 18, 2021
As Washington considers increasing incentives for businesses moving to a clean-energy future, one of the big questions is: Will the “greening” of the economy result in more employment or less?…
By Benjamin Zycher | Marilyn A. Brown | Marc Hafstead | November 9, 2021
Fred Krupp gets everything wrong in “Methane and Other Climate Bargains” (op-ed, Nov. 2), his argument for sharp and “virtually cost-free” reductions in methane emissions. Using the EPA climate model,…
By Benjamin Zycher | November 5, 2021
Texas is at the center of a global energy crisis that is causing leaders around the world to warn of looming energy shortages. Texas relies on renewable energy backed by…
By James W. Coleman | Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez | October 29, 2021
Inside the Beltway, most priorities are driven by the perceived political imperatives of the moment rather than by any set of actual principles. The ongoing herculean effort by the Securities and Exchange Commission…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 29, 2021
Confirmation hearings can be bombastic and they can be banal. But there always is the option of reminding agency nominees clearly of the central responsibilities of their jobs upon confirmation,…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 18, 2021
After having been told for over a year that there was a scientific consensus that Covid had a natural origin — and that any suggestion of a possible lab leak…
By M. Anthony Mills | October 1, 2021
The era of constrained federal science budgets is over. With Congress poised to boost public spending on research and development (R&D) by anywhere from tens of billions to hundreds of billions of dollars,…
By M. Anthony Mills | September 27, 2021
The Methane Emissions Reduction Act of 2021 has been proposed as a “pay-for” – a source of revenue – in the reconciliation infrastructure package. It would impose a “fee” on…
By Benjamin Zycher | September 24, 2021
The sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) continues a long history of alarmist predictions with the deeply dubious statement that human-caused climate change has now become…
By Peter J. Wallison | Benjamin Zycher | September 20, 2021
Costly economic distortions are an inexorable result of government bailouts for specific industries, the justifications for which are almost always deeply dubious. Consider section 3203 of the proposed Senate Energy Infrastructure…
By Benjamin Zycher | August 28, 2021
Incoherence is nothing new in the Beltway, but it’s still quite something to see the Biden administration simultaneously pursue new constraints on U.S. production of fossil fuels as a central component…
By Benjamin Zycher | August 13, 2021
In early February 1976, two cases of swine flu were discovered at Fort Dix in New Jersey. The Center for Disease Control identified the virus as Hsw1N1, similar to the one that…
By M. Anthony Mills | August 2, 2021
With the August recess imminent, the congressional Democrats are desperate to spend huge sums of other people’s money, and “infrastructure” is as useful a rhetorical vehicle for that purpose as any.…
By Benjamin Zycher | July 21, 2021
Supply and demand form the oldest and most powerful framework we have for analyzing price shifts for goods and services. Increase the cost of supplying a given good, and — presto!…
By Benjamin Zycher | July 13, 2021