Entries by RI Center for Freedom

Center Launches K-12 Student Video Contest to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday #America250RI

In recognition of President’s Day and George Washington’s upcoming birthday, the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity today launched a video contest encouraging K-12 students to create a video about why they are proud to celebrate America’s semiquincentennial, commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.

TESTIMONY: Senate Commission to Study the Successful Implementation of the Act on Climate

In this powerful testimony, Mike Stenhouse, CEO of the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity, explains why energy policy—not taxes, not housing, not government services—is the single most important determinant of Rhode Island’s future prosperity or poverty. Whether one believes in climate change or not, the economic consequences of the Act on Climate are unavoidable.

NEW REPORT PROVIDES ALTERNATIVES TO RHODE ISLAND’S SUICIDAL ACT ON CLIMATE POLICIES

New Englanders would save hundreds of billions of dollars and avoid deadly power blackouts by replacing state-mandated renewable energy projects with nuclear and natural gas power, a study released today by a coalition of New England think tanks finds.

Alternatives to New England’s Energy Suicide, released by New England’s free-market think tanks along with Americans for Prosperity Foundation, estimated the effects of trying to meet the region’s energy needs through 2050 with nuclear and natural gas plants instead of wind and solar power.

Center Cosigns Letter Supporting Seafreeze Petition to Suspend VINEYARD WIND Construction

Today, CEO for the Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity, Mike Stenhouse, co-signed a letter, along with national energy expert, G. Allen Brooks, requesting Doug Brugum, Secretary of the US Department Of the Interior (DOI), and other federal officials to accept the formal petition previously filed Seafreeze Inc (and others) that calls upon the government to immediately suspend “further construction and energy generation activity” of the near-completed Vineyard Wind off-shore wind project.