Energy and Environment Blog
Led by NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett, this blog is the newest project from our Environment Team (E-Team), one of the world’s largest collections of energy and environmental policy experts and scientists.
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From the Energy and Environment Blog
Sydney to Abandon Radical Smart Growth Policy
Australia’s New South Wales state government has proposed a new Metropolitan Strategy for ...
Rare Earth Elements and Mining Get Attention on the Hill
There has been a flurry of action on Capitol Hill regarding the need to improve our knowledge o ...
Advocates of the Climate “Consensus” Ignore It When It Becomes an Inconvenient Truth
A web site called “Information is Beautiful” has an infographic it claims demonstra ...
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Rare Earths and National Security
On November 2, the NCPA sponsored a conference on Capitol Hill that explored the direct link between national security and the domestic rare earths supply. Moving forward, the NCPA will remain at the forefront of this critical issue by forming a working group. To participate, send an email to rare.earths@ncpa.org.
View videos and materials from the conference.
Free-Market Environment Policy
The NCPA provides common sense alternatives to the extreme positions that often dominate the public policy debate on the environment. With one of the largest collections of environment and energy experts and scientists in the world, the NCPA seeks to correct misinformation and promote sensible solutions to energy and environment problems.
The NCPA's Global Warming Primer explains the complex issue of global warming in easy-to-understand language, and an NCPA study highlights 10 "cool" environmental policies that we should adopt, regardless of whether global warming becomes a significant problem.
Green Issues
- The Housing Crash and Smart Growth
- Will Green Energy Make the United States Less Secure?
- Protecting the Environment Through the Ownership Society
- Bad for Species, Bad for People
- Green Jobs: Hope or Hype Redux
Our Ideas in Action
- A Global Warming Primer, used by thousands of school children, adults and legislators, is an objective approach to global warming.
- Turning on the Lights, a study on market-based electric power across the United States.
Our Ideas in Progress
- Remove legal and regulatory barriers to domestic energy production
- Promote an energy-neutral national energy policy based on sound science
- Highlight how unsound regulations hinder environmental progress
- Publicize the cost and benefits of national and international efforts to restrict climate change
Global Warming
- 10 Cool Global Warming Policies
- Reasonable Responses to Climate Change
- Carbon Offsets: No Sure Bet to Prevent Climate Change
- Experts' Opinions versus Scientific Forecasts
- Are Polar Bears Dying?
Energy and Our Future
- Solar Power Prospects
- The Fiscal Impact of the Offshore Drilling Moratorium
- Starting the Energy Technology Revolution through Competition
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