The Enviro Conundrum: For Copper, Against Mining It
Joseph Moser over at The Daily Caller makes an important point in his recent piece on the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska: Recently, the EPA declared a new corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard...
View ArticleFossil Fueled Job Growth
From The Wall Street Journal: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported recently that the U.S. jobless rate remains a dreadful 9%. But look more closely at the data and you can see which industries are...
View ArticleShocker: Another Mining Project Opposed by Environmentalists
A recurring theme at Resourceful Earth has been the inherent contradiction faced by environmentalists: they want certain new technologies but don’t want the materials for these technologies to be dug...
View ArticleWhat Would Obama’s EPA Do With a Second Term?
The Environmental Protection Agency has directors who report directly to the President and are often subject to the President’s larger vision and goals. This in a sense means that while the President...
View ArticleOil Jobs and Production in Texas
Via the American Enterprise Institute: What an amazing graphic — almost twenty years of a slow decline was completely reversed over the course of two years! This is all due to the technology from...
View ArticleNorth Dakota Has Much More Oil Than We Thought
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a small federal agency that keeps track of the reserves of many natural commodities in the U.S. such as coal, oil, and natural gas. This week they made an...
View ArticleGreen Car Loan Program Costing Taxpayers
Via Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center, a chart demonstrating the incredibly amount of taxpayer money being deployed in the name of creating “green” jobs, in this case money lent to automobile...
View ArticleNew Report on Positive Benefits from Pebble Mine
Remember the Pebble Mine — the ambitious mining project proposed years ago for a remote area of Alaska? The groups involved in the project are still tied up in the permitting process, thanks to...
View ArticleJobs from the Pebble Mine
Our last post took a look at the state and federal tax revenue that would be created if the proposed Pebble Mine project were to go forward. But the project is more than just tax revenue, as the study...
View ArticleObama Talks Keystone XL
For the first time that I can remember, President Obama offered substantive remarks on the fate of the Keystone Pipeline: NYT: A couple other quick subjects that are economic-related. Keystone pipeline...
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