Energy and Environment
The R Street Institute’s Energy and Environment team focuses on how economic principles and private markets can yield stronger environmental results.
Whether they are working on electricity markets, permitting reform, power plant development, or climate change, the Energy and Environment team emphasizes the importance of moving away from heavy-handed regulation and fiscal recklessness toward a green invisible hand that empowers—rather than controls—private markets.
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Devin Hartman
Policy Director, Energy and Environmental Policy; Resident Senior Fellow
Josiah Neeley
Director, Texas; Resident Senior Fellow, Energy
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Resident Senior Fellow, Energy
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Senior Fellow, Energy
Energy and Environment Policy in the News
America’s green conservatives and the quest for ‘green liberty’
Political movements are ironic, indeterminate, inspiring and infuriating. Conservatism and environmentalism exemplify how movements’ identities and relationship to each other evolve, often dramatically. A century ago, the two intersected regularly. Over the past decade, both movements have strayed from their roots and each other. Yet the underlying political and economic conditions in the United States…