Feature Stories
Daniel Horowitz: The War on Coal and Natural Gas Destroys Americans and Empowers China
March 24, 2022
Oil is king when it comes to energy policy, but coal and natural gas are just as important. In the case of all three fossil fuels, Western governments have engaged in an all-out war on exploration, production, and generation, banned
Ukraine Crisis Must Force Development Finance World to Rethink Energy and Mining
March 21, 2022
Development finance institutions (DFIs), including the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC), need to revisit their energy and mining policies for a multitude of reasons, the most immediately prominent being the Russian invasion of Ukraine. DFI is an umbrella term
Steve Milloy: The U.S. Needs to Unleash Its Full Energy Potential
March 16, 2022
It should be plain to everyone by now that there is no “green energy” Nirvana on the horizon. Trillions of dollars have been thrown at “green energy” since the 1990s, and yet we burn more fossil fuels than ever before.
Terry Jarrett: U.S. Must Learn from Europe’s Energy Crisis
March 11, 2022
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfolds, Americans are witnessing the troubling global impacts. Oil has passed $100 a barrel, and the European Union remains beholden to Russia for almost 40 percent of its natural gas supplies. There’s a reasonable fear
Are We Nuts? American Energy is Key to Undermining Putin’s War
March 3, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bloody and unhinged campaign to topple a democratic nation once subjugated by the former Soviet Union has resurrected the threat of global conflict from its deep, dark Cold War-era grave. It’s easy to paint the invasion
Biden’s Empty Promise to ‘Work Like the Devil’ on Gas Prices
February 16, 2022
During a rare press availability, President Joe Biden promised to “work like the devil” to address high gasoline prices at the pump. He said that as part of an answer in which he also admitted, “I don’t know why they
U.S. Carbon Pipeline Proposals Trigger Backlash Over Potential Land Seizures
February 8, 2022
A flurry of proposed carbon pipelines in the U.S. Midwest has triggered a battle over whether companies behind the projects should be allowed to seize land from unwilling property owners to secure a route. Hundreds of Iowa landowners, more than
How FERC, Courts May Change Pipeline Industry in 2022
January 21, 2022
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, courts, and states are poised to set policies in 2022 that could make long-term changes to the natural gas pipeline industry, following a year that saw cancellations of major projects. FERC is under heightened pressure
Plunging Temps Remind New England of Cold, Hard Truth: Grid Still Relies on Coal and Oil
January 17, 2022
Energy sector officials have been warning for years about the risks posed to New England’s grid by plunging temperatures, risks exacerbated by anti-energy-infrastructure policies across the region. Now with New England facing its coldest temperatures since the “polar vortex” of
Joe Biden’s America-Last Energy Policy
November 23, 2021
Alarmed by the speed at which the comparisons to Jimmy Carter are mounting, President Biden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission in which he pretends to believe that America’s sky-high gas prices are the result of “anti-consumer
