Energy and Environmental Policy

The U.S. needs safe, affordable, reliable energy to power our economy. IWF analysts consider how the U.S. can achieve this goal, while embracing common sense environmental policies that protect our natural resources. IWF believes that the market will better identify promising, environmentally-sound energy sources than will politicians.

Recent Articles:

More Government Bureaucracy Isn't Part of All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy


Giving Credit During Earth Month


How Will President Obama Feel About Gas Prices Post-Election?


Oklahoma!


POTUS: Fossil Fuels Are So Yesterday...


Can 2012 Candidates Deliver on Gas Prices This Fall?


When Environmental Laws Backfire


Downplaying High Gas Prices


President Blameless


Pain at the Pump


Keystone Decision Doesn't Make Sense


High Gas Prices Need Long-term Policy Solution


Mister Harper Goes To China


Misplaced Priorities: Environmentalists, Junk Mail and the Keystone Pipeline


The Keystone Cops: Do They Care About Jobs?


NIMBY America To Keystone: Jobs Are Secondary


Keystone v. Solyndra


President: The Republicans Made Me Do It!


Keystone Rejection is an XL Mistake


President Fixit


Role Reversal: Jobs Looking For People


Green Failures Cost A Lot Of That Green Stuff!


Secretary Clueless


The Meaning Of Keystone XL


Is The U.S. Open For Business?


Is Politics Driving Our Energy Policy?


Is Unemployment Green?


Foot Dragging on Job Creation


Simple Answers on Government's Energy Policy


IWF Comments to State Department on Keystone XL Project


Real Green Jobs: These Don't Cost Half A Billion Dollars


Our Solyandra Economy and Political System


Energy Secretary Chu: Out Of His Element?


A Doomed Energy Initiative, and A Doomed Economic Model


Solyndra: Lesson Unlearned


Political posturing or real progress? That's the debate about the Keystone Pipeline


Enough with the Meddling in the Energy Markets!


Can Canadian Oil Development Be A Women's Issue?


The Solyndra Scandal and the Future of Green Energy


Sunshine And Solyndra


Soltis on Bloggingheads: Duck and Cover!


Enough with the Green Energy Boondoggle


A Pivot to Jobs? Start By Approving The Keystone Pipeline


Time to Privatize Nuclear Waste Management


Cut Energy Subsidies, Cut the Deficit


How Are Gas Prices Affecting You?


Reelection "Strategery": Release the Strategic Oil Reserves


Thoughts on Japan's Non-Nuclear Disaster


Has Ethanol Contributed to Unrest in the Middle East?


When Saying You're Sorry Just Isn't Enough