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January 20, 2017

Environmentalists Target yet another Oil Pipeline

It is not enough that the environmental community has the Dakota Access Pipeline ensnarled in protests and government quagmire, but...
January 20, 2017
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January 19, 2017

Obama Peddles the “100% Renewable” Myth

President Obama’s recent article for the journal Science raised our eyebrows for a number of reasons—several of which are commented...
January 19, 2017
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January 18, 2017

Obama’s ‘Science’ Article: Long on Symbolism, Short on Substance

In the January 2017 issue of the journal Science, Barack Obama has an article entitled, “The irreversible momentum of clean...
January 18, 2017
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January 17, 2017

New York Shutters Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, Builds Expensive Offshore Wind Instead

New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo is shuttering N.Y.’s Indian Point nuclear plant by 2021 and is proposing to replace that...
January 17, 2017
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January 16, 2017

Explaining IER’s Position on the “Social Cost of Carbon”

The “social cost of carbon” (henceforth “SCC”) is one of the major points of controversy on energy policy, amidst the...
January 16, 2017
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January 13, 2017

U.S. Becomes a Net Energy Exporter in EIA Forecast

On January 5, 2017, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Annual Energy Outlook 2017, which provides annual forecasts of...
January 13, 2017
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