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3 weeks ago | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
After years of magical thinking, America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to see the forest for the trees again. Administrator Lee Zeldin announced this week that the EPA is reconsidering the 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gases are pollutants. This is massive. The endangerment finding underpins regulations on cars and the power sector.
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1 month ago | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
Democrats say they represent working Americans, but their energy policies tell another story. President Joe Biden’s environmental regulations are focused on slowing fossil-fuel development and promoting electrification, resulting in higher prices for electricity, cars and gasoline. Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is holding hearings to support Biden’s efforts.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
President Biden’s decision to approve ConocoPhillips’s $8 billion Willow project in Alaska is a welcome one, but it’s the exception that proves the rule, unfortunately: It came a day after he restricted development in more than half of the Arctic National Petroleum Reserve and banned future oil and gas leasing in federal waters in the Beaufort Sea. Biden’s Arctic Ocean ban is Russia’s gain. It removes 2.8 million acres from leasing, until another administration or Congress decided otherwise.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
It’s a new world for energy production. The shackles are finally off. On his first day in office, President Donald J Trump fulfilled energy campaign promises by ending the Democrats’ war on fossil fuels. He issued executive orders promoting oil and gas production, ending requirements for electric vehicles and other electric appliances, and withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and other commitments of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
Seeing homes in Malibu and the Pacific Palisades burn to the ground while fire hydrants ran dry is bad enough, but knowing the water shortage resulted from bad bureaucratic decisions makes the horrifying sights even worse. Water is everywhere in California. The Golden State borders the Pacific Ocean, which contains countless gallons that could be desalinated to fill reservoirs and feed fire hydrants.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would declare a national energy emergency on his first day in office, ending President Joe Biden’s restrictions on energy production, doing away with the electric vehicle mandate, ending incentives for renewable energy, and canceling Biden’s natural gas export ban. This is welcome news.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
Although the United States has massive resources of oil and natural gas, Americans now face energy scarcity, an electric grid that is less reliable, and shortages of natural gas and oil—all of which have imposed higher prices on consumers and the economy. Worse, none of this had to happen. This is an entirely avoidable reversal of America’s energy renaissance, which began in the first decade of the 2000s.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
At the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Azerbaijan, attendees are full of dire predictions that the world’s climate will worsen under President-elect Trump. But when Trump fulfills his campaign promises to increase U.S. oil and gas production and removes President Biden’s pause on new liquid natural gas exports, global emissions will likely decline rather than rise. This is because exports of U.S. natural gas generally displace coal, reducing global CO2 emissions.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Diana Furchtgott-Roth |Joyce Morgan fellow
If you were to poll the 50 African leaders who attended this month’s Ninth Forum on Africa-China Cooperation Summit in Beijing which nation they view more favorably, the United States or China, they’d surely pick the latter. And who could blame them? President Xi Jinping offered them $51 billion in loans and a million jobs while promoting gasoline-powered pickup trucks, minivans, and SUVs by Great Wall Motors.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Joyce Morgan fellow
Remember those office supply ads with the “that was easy” button? The premise was, just hit the magical red button and all of your supply needs are taken care of: It’s just that easy!The Green New Deal, which earlier this week garnered exactly zero votes of support, was an “easy” button for climate change and more. The Deal was truly magical because, despite earning the immediate support of the nation’s leading liberals and socialists, it contained no policy details.
