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The Washington Post broke the memo soon after Enron’s demise, showing how Enron was hardly a free-market, capitalistic company in  “[Enron] chairman Pushed Firm’s Agenda With Clinton White House.” Indeed, Enron...

The push to treat electricity as a commodity instead of a service is particularly punishing in California, where electricity prices are increasing three times faster than in the rest of the U.S.

Biden’s reliance on huge subsidies to underwrite the “Green Revolution” has brought soaring inflation to the U.S. that is taking away purchasing power faster than it can increase subsidies and Mafia-style “incentives”...

...in retrospect, it seems clear, we weren’t as focused on these fire risks as we should have been.”

Has anyone called for a separation of media from government?

Dated December 12, 1997, it was written from Kyoto, Japan, by Enron lobbyist John Palmisano in the afterglow of the Kyoto Protocol agreement.

Energy “plans” that call for wholesale changes but do not consider how the final overall system might work are not plans but rather only naïve wish lists.

Trying to appease the enemy is futile. Employees, investors, board members who view oil and gas as destructive should not be part of the company.

While UCLA attempted to categorize many of the requested documents as "not public records," the court stated that, per a previous filing, "the definition of 'public records' is 'broad and intended to cover every conceivable...

If implemented, this agreement will do more to promote Enron’s business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring of the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States.

This post from 12 years ago recounts the political origins of the Texas wind power boom. It is also the prehistory of the Great Texas Blackout of February 2021. Note that critics of Texas’s intervention warned of reliability...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR)… stakeholder theory … sustainability … environmental, social, and governance investing (ESG). Whatever the term, the premise is that business is a cultural failure as well as a...

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The perpetuation of the deception that humans are causing the inevitable collapse of the world because of global warming works because of the deliberate exploitation of human traits and frailties....

Yesterday on NPR’s radio program To the Point, I said it was dishonorable for ExxonMobil to support a carbon tax. I compared ExxonMobil’s reported embrace of carbon taxes to Enron’s lobbying for the Kyoto...

Yesterday on NPR’s radio program To the Point, I said it was dishonorable for ExxonMobil to support a carbon tax. I compared ExxonMobil’s reported embrace of carbon taxes to Enron’s lobbying for the Kyoto...