Bernie Sanders' Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here's Why...
Read time: 6 minsSenator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has released an ambitious climate proposal, one which champions of the status quo were quick to criticize. One line of...
View ArticleAnother Deceptive Letter Bashing the Electric Car Tax Credit Circulating...
Read time: 5 minsA West Virginia Republican is gathering signatures from fellow members of Congress for a letter opposing any extension to the electric vehicle (EV) tax credit. Representative Alex...
View ArticleSteve Forbes Echoes Koch Talking Points on Electric Car Tax Credit
Read time: 6 minsThe attacks on electric cars reverberating through the conservative echo chamber have found a new voice in Steve Forbes. The two-time Republican presidential candidate and...
View Article'Short Circuit: The High Cost of Electric Vehicle Subsidies' by Jonathan...
In May 2018, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research published a report, “Short Circuit: The High Cost of Electric Vehicles,” by Jonathan Lesser that makes a number of demonstrably false claims...
View ArticleWho’s Behind Trump’s Claim the Green New Deal Will Cost $100 Trillion?
Read time: 8 minsBy Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute.President Trump’s claim that the Green New Deal would cost $100 trillion can be traced...
View ArticleSenator John Barrasso Parrots Koch Talking Points to Kill Electric Car Tax...
Read time: 8 mins[Update 2/7/19] On Wednesday, Senator Barrasso released a new version of his Fairness for Every Driver Act, which he had forecast with the Fox News op-ed. In his remarks on the Senate...
View ArticleMark P. Mills
Mark P. MillsCredentialsBSc Honors, Physics, Queen’s University [1]BackgroundMark Mills has been President of Digital Power Group since 2001 and operates the website Tech-Pundit.com. He is a Faculty...
View ArticleThe Koch Brothers' Last Ditch Attempt to Kill the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit
Read time: 9 minsAs Congress debates what, if anything, to do with the federal electric vehicle (EV) tax credit, the oil industry is fighting to kill the popular incentive, which is hitting some key...
View ArticleThe Manhattan Institute's Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
Read time: 4 minsA new report by Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research dismisses predictions of the impacts of a warming world with a simple solution: When climate change turns up...
View ArticleOren Cass
Oren CassCredentialsJD, Harvard University (2012). [1]BA, Political Economy, Williams College (2005). [1]BackgroundOren Cass is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute (MI). According to his...
View ArticleHow Donald Trump Kingmaker-Billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer Have Poured...
When it comes to climate science denial, some names come easily and deservingly to mind.There’s oil giant ExxonMobil— a company that contributed millions of dollars to organizations that told the...
View ArticleExxonMobil: New Disclosures Show Oil Giant Still Funding Climate Science...
ExxonMobil and the climate science denial machinery that it has helped to build over the years are now under more scrutiny than ever before.At its most recent AGM, the oil and gas giant faced a barrage...
View ArticleRepublican Senators Push Manhattan Institute's Dirty Energy Propaganda Paper
Two Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will be releasing a white paper later this week that will allegedly make the case that “regulations” and legislation that...
View ArticleShameful: Keystone XL Proponent Using Deadly Lac-Megantic, Quebec Oil Train...
Five people are confirmed dead and 40 people remain missing in the small hamlet of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, where a train with 73 carloads full of Bakken shale oil derailed explosively, incinerating 30...
View ArticleFrackademia: Controversial SUNY Buffalo Shale Institute's Reputation Unraveling
A storm is brewing in Buffalo and it's not the record snow storm typically associated with upstate New York. Rather, it's taking place in the ivory tower of academia and revolves around hydraulic...
View ArticlePublic Accountability Initiative Produces New Report on SUNY Buffalo's "Shill...
The Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) has upped the ante on DeSmogBlog's reporting on what we coined a “Shill Gas Study” recently conducted by SUNY Buffalo.In our critique of the “study” we...
View ArticleNew Shill Gas Study Published by SUNY Buffalo Institute With Heavy Industry Ties
When does a study on the unconventional shale gas industry become a “shill gas study”? The quick answer: when nearly everyone writing and peer reviewing it has close ties to the industry they're...
View ArticleManhattan Institute for Policy Research
Manhattan Institute for Policy ResearchBackgroundThe Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, originally known as the International Center for Economic Policy Studies, was founded in 1978 by Anthony...
View ArticleRobert Bryce
Robert BryceCredentialsB.F.A., University of Texas at Austin (1986). [1]BackgroundRobert Bryce is an American author and journalist based in Austin, Texas. [17] He has regularly been cited as an...
View ArticleAccountability Moment: Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce Squirms And Evades...
Robert Bryce from the fossil fuel industry-funded Manhattan Institute just can't bring himself to answer a simple question about the fossil fuel industry funding flowing into his group. Readers of...
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