Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is a senior policy advisor with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. He is the author of Green Power, Black Death (Merril Press, 2010) and coauthor of Energy Keepers, Energy Killers (Merril Press, 2008).

Policy Brief: Protecting the Environment from the Green New Deal

December 19, 2020

In recent decades, policymakers have forced public utilities to generate increasingly more electricity from fashionable “renewable energy” sources, notably wind and solar. For example, through various measures, they have pushed automakers to manufacture more electric vehicles.

Policy Brief: How the Green New Deal’s Renewable Energy Mining Would Harm Humans and the Environment

April 10, 2020

The Green New Deal (GND)—promoted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and several other prominent elected officials—aims to replace all fossil fuels and nuclear energy with so-called “renewable” energy sources, primarily wind and solar.