Green energy sounds like a good idea, yet few consider its high cost. In this video we look at the green jobs model of Spain, one of the world’s leaders in implementing green technology. IER commissioned a study on Spain’s green jobs program and found that for every green job created, 2.2 jobs were lost [...]
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For Immediate Release February 21, 2012 WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance released Tuesday a video telling the story of Craig, Colo., a small town of approximately 10,000 people and home to the Centennial State’s largest coal-fired power generating plant. But due to Colorado’s energy mandate that requires 30 percent of the state’s electricity generation come [...]
Well, this is the sort of thing one has to expect when one climbs into bed with “businessmen” who take money from the federal government. If they have no respect for taxpayers, why would they have any respect for desert ecosystems? Los Angeles Times (2/6/12) reports: Reporting from Ivanpah Valley, Calif.— Construction cranes rise like [...]
Keep in mind, CSAPR was the “solid” rule. What do you figure the courts are going to do with the utility MACT, the boiler MACT, and the GHG rules? It is pretty much the beginning of the end for EPA’s run of lawlessness The Hill (1/2/12) reports: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — Now in the twelfth and final day of the 2011 Lump of Coal Award announcements, the American Energy Alliance has concluded this year’s tribute to the politicians, policymakers, and others who have proven the worst enemies of affordable American energy. Today’s recipient is the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance continued its inaugural tradition of awarding a “Lump of Coal” to the biggest enemies of affordable domestic energy production by announcing today’s recipient: former House Speaker and current Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). “Rather than enumerate all the reasons why AEA believes Nancy Pelosi [...]
For Immediate Release WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance announced today the latest recipients of the organizations 2011 “Lump of Coal” award, which is given Dec. 8-23 to the policymakers, politicians and prevaricating provocateurs who oppose affordable energy solutions to power America’s future. Today’s recipients are two thespians of stage and screen who have [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance knows that Senator Harry Reid already left town for his Christmas vacation, with no intention of returning to Washington until next year. Nevertheless, the American Energy Alliance has selected Senator Reid as today’s recipient of the 2011 “Lump of Coal” Award for his unyielding opposition to affordable energy [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the nation’s capital, and the seasonal waft of wood fires burning and chestnuts roasting is filling the rarefied air on Capitol Hill. But in the shadowy enclaves of the behemoth national headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Lisa Jackson has prepared an [...]
Well, this is the sort of thing one has to expect when one climbs into bed with “businessmen” who take money from the federal government. If they have no respect for taxpayers, why would they have any respect for desert ecosystems? Los Angeles Times (2/6/12) reports: Reporting from Ivanpah Valley, Calif.— Construction cranes rise like [...]
Keep in mind, CSAPR was the “solid” rule. What do you figure the courts are going to do with the utility MACT, the boiler MACT, and the GHG rules? It is pretty much the beginning of the end for EPA’s run of lawlessness The Hill (1/2/12) reports: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the [...]
We don’t usually include press releases in the pipeline, but this is too delicious. I’m betting Senator Inhofe puts him on the canvas in the fifth, and the ref calls it somewhere around the eighth EPW (12/12/11) reports: Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today accepted [...]
Let the great debate begin — IER releases energy inventory report that attacks the narrative energy scarcity Powerline Blog (12/6/11) reports: For a long time, the Left has gotten away with underselling America’s energy resources. The old chestnut that the U.S. uses 25% of the world’s oil but only has 2% to 3% of the [...]
Once again, America leads in the next energy revolution, but will our government get out of the way? Wall Street Journal (12/5/11) reports: Big Oil is redrawing the energy map…For decades, its main stomping grounds were in the developing world—exotic locales like the Persian Gulf and the desert sands of North Africa, the Niger Delta [...]
She might be able to make due with off shore wind energy, but I don’t live in a hovel and I enjoy my big screen TV Richmond Times (11/30/11) reports: About 50 environmental activists called on the State Corporation Commission Wednesday to require Dominion Virginia Power to invest more in renewable energy…”There’s enough offshore wind [...]
President Obama’s new electric car will cost $96,000 this holiday season (batteries not included) Greenwire (11/30/11) reports: A123 Systems has cut 35 percent of the workers at two Michigan plants that make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles following a reduction in orders from prime customer Fisker Automotive…The company, which received a $249 million grant from [...]
It is tough to imagine EPA would do this. But then again wrecking the relationship with Canada to satisfy some enviro crazies and Senator Johanns over Keystone seemed unlikely Bismarck News (11/27/11) reports: With millions, if not billions, of dollars hanging over the ledge, the boom in the oil patch would go into a free-fall [...]
For Immediate Release WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance announced today the latest recipients of the organizations 2011 “Lump of Coal” award, which is given Dec. 8-23 to the policymakers, politicians and prevaricating provocateurs who oppose affordable energy solutions to power America’s future. Today’s recipients are two thespians of stage and screen who have [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — In a late decision yesterday evening, the awards committee of the American Energy Alliance accepted a last-minute nomination for the 2011 Lump of Coal Award, which AEA is giving to the enemies of affordable domestic energy. Originally slated to share today’s award were Senators John Kerry (D-Venezuela) and Lindsay Graham (RINO-SC) for [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON D.C. — Late into the night on Wednesday, December 14, the American Energy Alliance award committee poured over the policy ideas of the top contenders for the 2012 Republican nomination, desperately searching for the most deserving recipient for this year’s “Lump of Coal” Award. After at least a dozen painstaking, caffeine-induced [...]
For Immediate Release WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance announced today the latest recipients of the 2011 inaugural “Lump of Coal” Awards, given Dec. 8-23 to policy makers, politicians and other professionals who are most responsible for reduced economic growth and rising energy prices. Today’s award is shared by 1997 Nobel prize winner and [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — Sorting through the list of potential recipients for the inaugural “Lump of Coal” Award was a laborious process for the judges at the American Energy Alliance this year. But undeterred in the quest to find America’s naughtiest politicians, policy makers, and other professionals who just don’t understand how energy markets work, the [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — Leading off the 2011 list of naughty policymakers, politicians, and other professionals who have demonstrated exemplary failures to understand or promote policies that generate affordable American energy is this year’s first recipient, the 43rd president of the United States, the Honorable George Walker Bush of Texas. “When it comes to offering opportunities [...]
For Immediate Release AEA to award “Lump of Coal” to naughty policymakers, politicians, and others who have hindered American energy development WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance has been keeping a list of the naughty policymakers, politicians, and other professionals who — by their individual and occasionally collective efforts — have slowed American energy [...]
Repackaged and Repolished In other words, same whine, new bottle Washington — The only thing standing in the way of job creation is Washington and we have 4,200 examples to make our case. No, not Solyndra or the Chevy Volt, but rather the amount of regulations coming down the pike that stifle job creation and economic growth. The [...]
Green energy sounds like a good idea, yet few consider its high cost. In this video we look at the green jobs model of Spain, one of the world’s leaders in implementing green technology.
Oil prices keep rising and yet the Obama administration is making it harder to produce energy in the United States. From the Gulf of Mexico, to West Virginia, to offshore Alaska, the administration is refusing to issue permits, vetoing permits, and generally making it difficult to impossible to explore and produce the energy that America needs.
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