Energy & Environment

Affordable, Reliable, and Clean – An Objective Scorecard to Assess Competing Energy Sources

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America needs affordable and reliable energy sources to power our economy, provide prosperous personal living standards, and compete with global competitors. We also want to produce and use energy sources in a way that ensures a clean and ecologically healthy environment.

Affordable, reliable, and clean. This is the foundational tripod of sound energy policy. Affordability is necessary to ensure consumers can afford the electricity we need for our day-to-day lives. Reliability is necessary to guarantee electricity is available whenever we need it. Environmental impact is important because we all want to be good stewards of our environment.

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  • James Taylor

    James Taylor is president of The Heartland Institute and the founding director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy. Taylor has presented energy and environment analysis on every major television network in the United States, and at conferences in the America and Europe. He also organizes Heartland’s International Conferences on Climate Change.