Brazil's Energy Plan Examined
While Brazil’s embrace of ethanol doesn’t have much to teach the United States, its policies regarding domestic oil and gas production do provide an instructive lesson, if only Congress would listen.
Posted: 05/07/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy
Global Warming and Electric Power in Texas
Reliability and costs should be the main concerns of Texas policy makers as they shape electric power policies. Potential climate change legislation should not hold up or even influence the Texas’s electric power policy. Instead, they should focus on reliability and cost, according to testimony NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett delivered before the Texas House Select Committee on Electric Generation Capacity and Environmental Effects.
Posted: 04/10/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy
Environmental hysterics
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley recently warned that failure to take action on global warming could mean the extinction of the human race. Over the last few years, we’ve been repeatedly warned we are in the midst of a climate crisis that threatens our survival.
Posted: 04/07/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Global Warming
Power For Texas (Audio)
H. Sterling Burnett discusses the future of electric power in Texas on the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Texas Policy Cast.
Posted: 03/21/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy
Federal Government Continues to Weigh ESA Listing of Polar Bears
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has postponed a decision on whether to list polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act.
Posted: 03/20/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Global Warming