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<title><![CDATA[Benjamin Zycher - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21166.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Zycher]]></description><category domain="21166">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Natural Gas Is Green and Hugely Beneficial Economically]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/07/09/natural_gas_is_green_and_hugely_beneficial_economically_1121687.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law late last month a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' bill'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' defining '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'green energy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' any energy generated by utilizing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' hydrocarbons which, when combusted for the purpose of electricity generation meet the National Ambient Air Quality...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Net Zero' Roadmap Is Chasing Windmills]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/08/08/the_iea_and_congressional_opponents_of_fossil_fuels_are_chasing_windmills_971555.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Biden administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' regulatory'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' onslaught'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' no mere rumor. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a harsh reality deeply problematic for the rule of law, for the concept of self-government, for the institutions of our constitutional republic, and for federalism. And, not least, for a U.S. economy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/03/27/the_energy_transition_is_a_delusion_indeed_889761.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'energy transition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' continues to receive thunderous applause from all the usual Beltway suspects, an exercise in groupthink fantasy amazing to behold. For those with actual lives to live and thus uninterested in silliness: The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'energy transition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a massive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Earth Day 2022: Investing in Poverty &amp; Suffering]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/04/22/earth_day_2022_investing_in_poverty_suffering_and_human_degradation_828106.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Earth Day 2022'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' always falling on Lenin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s birthday, amusingly enough '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the official theme of which this year is Invest In Our Planet'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('„').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'. As with every previous Earth Day, we will be bombarded with innumerable web sites both infantile and mendacious, crude...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Human Core of 'Restore Our Earth']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/04/22/earth_day_2021_the_anti-human_core_of_restore_our_earth_773676.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is Earth Day, the central religious holiday of environmental fundamentalism, and the official theme this year is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Restore Our Earth'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('„').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';','&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' purporting to focus on natural processes, emerging green technologies, and innovative thinking that can restore the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Earth Day '20: The Exhaustion of the Climate Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/04/22/earth_day_2020_the_exhaustion_of_the_climate_left_489297.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Climate Action'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is the theme of this 50th'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Earth Day, and it is useful to note that these'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' five decades'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' apocalyptic warnings'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' truly are amazing in their consistency: Not one actually has come to pass. The juxtaposition of two'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' news stories, respectively from 1988...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ExxonMobil &amp; the Politicization of NY Law Enforcement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/12/20/exxonmobil_and_the_politicization_of_law_enforcement_in_new_york_104014.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Supreme Court announced its landmark decision earlier this month in the first climate change-related securities lawsuit---'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'People of the State of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corporation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'---to be tried to a verdict in the U.S. On December 10, Justice Barry Ostrager...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Destructive Climate Change Litigation Game]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/09/11/the_deeply_destructive_climate_change_litigation_game_103906.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Voters and their elected representatives can be stubbornly uncooperative with interest groups pursuing the achievement of specific policy ends. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Heavy lifting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is the only way to describe an effort to forge a Congressional coalition in support of specific legislation, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has the Stimulus Stimulated Anything?]]></title>
							<link>http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/23/has-the-gargantuan-stimulus-stimulated-anything/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Zycher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let us review the recent record on federal spending stimulus and its  relationship to GDP growth, about which data are freely available from  the Bureau of Economic Analysis.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  In February 2008, $165 billion'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for the  most part, dollar transfers to the states and increased federal ...]]></description>
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