Fulfilling The President's Green Dreams Through Private Competition
Forbes.com Solar-panel maker Solyndra, with its $535 million loan guarantee from taxpayers, was supposed to help usher in the era of clean energy and green jobs that President Obama has been promising....
View ArticleLittle Solyndra: Second Loan Recipient Files Bankruptcy
Nearly three months after the demise of Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan guarantee from taxpayers before going bankrupt, the second company to receive a loan under this program has filed...
View ArticleA Smarter Way to "Green" Innovation
In our op-ed on Forbes.com, Julian Morris and I argue that the federal government should end the practice of giving out risky loans in an attempt to spur innovation in the energy sector:Government...
View ArticleDOE Bureaucrat Laments the Failures of Bureaucracy
This morning, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Department of Energy Inspector General Gregory Friedman testified that Department stimulus money has been mismanaged, wasted,...
View ArticleReturning to Regulatory Basics
For decades, executive branch agencies have been required to do identify significant problems they are trying to address before going through with a regulation. And for decades, they have been ignoring...
View ArticleSolyndra: The Federal Gift that Keeps on Giving
Investors.com reports that the Labor Department today approved a plan to pay $14.3 million in severance packages to the failed solar company that received half-a-billion dollars in government loans....
View ArticleEPA's Utility MACT - More Policy-Driven Science
Today at 2pm, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will visit a children’s hospital in Washington, D.C. and unveil the Agency’s new Utility MACT rules. She will stand at a podium, most likely surrounded by...
View ArticleKeystone XL in 2012
The Keystone Pipeline System was, perhaps, the biggest environmental battle of 2011. The proposed $13 billion system would transport Canadian crude oil between Alberta, Canada and Port Arthur, Texas...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Likely to be Rejected
As I mentioned last week, the Keystone Pipeline System was the biggest environmental battle of 2011 and will continue to be in 2012. Reuters reports that the Obama Administration will likely reject the...
View ArticlePresident Obama Wrong on Keystone
On Wednesday the Obama administration denied the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, the $7 billion project that would transport Canadian crude oil between Alberta, Canada and Port Arthur,...
View ArticleEPA Doesn't Want You to Know What They're Doing
On Wednesday December 21, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its final plans to regulate emissions from American power plants. As I implied that day, EPA’s timing may have been...
View ArticleChecking the Facts on President Obama's "Energy Facts"
President Obama's re-election campaign went into full swing this month with the release of his first TV ad of the election cycle. Airing in six key battleground states, the ad defends the president's...
View ArticleWhat's Ahead for Keystone
President Obama denied the Keystone pipeline’s permitting last week. As promised, the fun has just begun.On Sunday, House Speaker John Boehner said “all options” are on the table when it comes to a...
View ArticleObama laughs over spilled milk but fines companies for not producing...
During his State of the Union address last week, President Obama joked about the absurdity of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that could have forced dairy farmers to pay $10,000 for...
View ArticleEthanol Mandates and Energy Security
In my op-ed yesterday at the Daily Caller, I discussed the misguided policy of cellulosic ethanol mandates, writing:The question is: Why is the government pouring billions of dollars into the...
View ArticleA $1 Billion Prize for a 100mpg Car?
A U.S. Representative has introduced legislation that would offer $1 billion to the first auto company to sell a mass-produced car that gets 100 miles per gallon.The “E Prize Act of 2012” (HR 3872),...
View ArticleMore on Fairness
We have discussed a number of times on the blog the fact that complaints about the rich not paying their "fair share" lack a definition of fairness. Fairness in some ways is a subjective question. That...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Diss Your Biggest Energy Importer?
They send their product to China instead.Last November, Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper called approval of the Keystone pipeline a "no brainer." Much to his chagrin, President Obama chose to deny...
View ArticleCrony Governmentism: Energy Edition
Not so sure this is crony capitalism as much as it is just straight up cronyism:Overall, the [Washington] Post found that $3.9 billion in federal grants and financing flowed to 21 companies backed by...
View ArticleGermany's Green Energy Policies Are Shutting Down Industry
President Obama often highlights the renewable energy policies of certain European countries, only to see those countries quickly abandon their policies shortly after. As I observed in my commentary...
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