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Global production of nuclear energy is expected to grow significantly in future years, despite setbacks in Japan and Germany, as China and the United States…
A glut of emissions allowances in Europe has made coal the continent's most profitable electric power fuel.Despite highly touted climate policies, European utilities are rushing…
The International Energy Agency has released a new analysis that helps to demonstrate the systemic failure of policy analyses focused on carbon dioxide emissions reductions.In…
In an editorial today, the Washington Post called on lawmakers to put innovation at the centre of federal policies supporting wind power, in the latest…
In the 70 years that have passed since Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "creative destruction," economists have struggled awkwardly with how to think about growth…
Coal use will rise an estimated 13.5 percent in Germany this year, resulting in at least 14 million metric tons of additional carbon dioxide (CO2)…
Over the last five years, the world's largest nations collectively engaged in a massive policy experiment: what happens when governments triple the historic rate of…
In September of 1982, a group of scholars met in Stockholm intending to reform -- even to revolutionize -- the study of economics. The new…
Obama's focus on energy innovation and the regulation of conventional pollutants, rather than climate science and carbon pricing, is part of a growing climate centrism…
A pair of new federal air pollution regulations could result in the closure of up to 67 aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants, simultaneously reducing both…
The technological revolution allowing for the cheap extraction of natural gas from shale occurred thanks to more than three decades of government subsidies for research,…
"The clean energy industry in the United States is indeed poised for crisis, as the bulk of the nation's major federal clean energy support programs…
Congressional investigators should prioritize clean energy commercialization solutions over political grandstanding and focus on identifying key lessons from the experience of the Loan Programs Office.…
In the wake of Solyndra's failure, pundits have latched on to a simple, compelling narrative: government can't do energy right. From synfuels to solar panels…
One year ago, scholars from the American Enterprise Institute, Breakthrough Institute, and Brookings Institution called on Congress to reform energy subsidies so they specifically fund…
A new report on energy rebound published by the European Commission surveys the wide range of evidence and academic literature and concludes that rebound effects…
In the debate over climate legislation in 2009 and 2010, it was conventional wisdom that a price on carbon was the sine qua non of…
On Tuesday last week, the American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC)--composed of industry titans like Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Bank of America Chairman Chad Holliday, and…
The failure of Solyndra, while unfortunate for the company, its investors and employees, is not an indictment of federal energy technology policy. Indeed, judged by…
President Obama's strategy for economic renewal through clean energy was flawed from the start, too over-reliant on cap and trade and public works programs to…