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Big Oil Pumps Up Profits with Americans’ Cash Article
Pablo Zuniga of Dallas pumps gasoline into his vehicle at an Exxon gas station on June 30, 2011, in Farmers Branch, Texas. Exxon posted a $10.7 billion second-quarter profit that was largely attributable to high gas prices. (AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Big Oil Pumps Up Profits with Americans’ Cash

Consumers and taxpayers helped boost oil company earnings in the second quarter thanks to higher gas prices and unnecessary subsidies, writes Kalen Pruss.

Kalen Pruss

Maintaining Michigan’s Clean Energy Momentum Article
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), above, can keep clean energy industries humming in the state with the right policies. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Maintaining Michigan’s Clean Energy Momentum

Kalen Pruss offers proposals for Michigan’s new governor that can carry on the state’s recent success rebuilding its economy on clean energy.

Kalen Pruss

The Consequences of Conservative Economic Policy Report
A worker crosses a road near a long-abandoned steel plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where 750 people used to work. (AP/Gary Tramontina)

The Consequences of Conservative Economic Policy

Adam S. Hersh, Michael Ettlinger, and Kalen Pruss parse conservatives' tried and failed approach to economics that should not be repeated.

Adam Hersh, Michael Ettlinger, Kalen Pruss

Harvesting Low-Hanging Energy Savings Article
Legislation introduced by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), above, would establish a national energy efficiency resource standard that would reduce electricity demand, save businesses and households money, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (AP/Lawrence Jackson)

Harvesting Low-Hanging Energy Savings

New legislation proposed in Congress would establish a national energy efficiency resource standard, write Daniel J. Weiss and Kalen Pruss.

Daniel J. Weiss, Kalen Pruss