H. Sterling Burnett
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). While Burnett works on a number of issues, he specializes in issues involving environmental policy and gun policy.
Appointed as a member of the new Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller’s e-Texas commission, 2000.
His articles and opinion pieces have been published in Ethics, Environmental Ethics, International Studies in Philosophy, The World and I, USA Today, Los Angeles Daily News, The Washington Times, The Dallas Morning News, Rocky Mountain News, Miami Herald, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Detroit News, The Seattle Times and Human Events.
Burnett received his P.h.D. in 2001 from Bowling Green State University; Doctoral dissertation entitled “Ecosystemic Goods: The Pros and Cons of a Property Rights Approach.”
Commentaries written by this expert:
- Solar Sticker Shock Hits Washington County
- New North Dakota Oil Find Could Be a Gusher
- Carbon Offsets: Scam, Not Salvation
- H. Sterling Burnett: Developing shale oil may solve our energy crisis
- Waxman-Markey Bill Would Raise Electricity Prices $846 Billion
- Climate bill seems pretty dim
- Removing the Political Shortage of Water
- Los Angeles Voters Reject Solar Initiative
- EPA Considers California Greenhouse Gas Waiver
- Carbon offsets scam
- The Sky Is Falling?
- GM Grapes Raise Hopes for Midwest Wine Industry
- Californians, Floridians Support Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling, Polls Say
- Nuclear Renaissance: Nuclear Power Is Clear Choice For Reliable, Clean Electricity To Power Continued Economic Progress
- Government Fiddles While America's Forests Burn
- Green Schools Don’t Make Grade
- Greenhouse Gas Bills Just A Bunch Of Hot Air
- EPA, CBO Document the High Costs of Proposed Global Warming Legislation
- A Must-Read Book on Global Warming
- We Don't Have To Take $4 Gas Prices — We Can Drill
- Global Warming and Electric Power in Texas
- Power For Texas (Audio)
- Federal Government Continues to Weigh ESA Listing of Polar Bears
- Climate Panel On The Hot Seat
- Scientists Recommend Stronger Action to Decrease Bird Kills
- Altamont Pass Settlement Fails to Reduce Bird Kills
- Muddled Plan Rises Again
- Energy Bill Is A Job Killer
- New oil refineries needed
- Building Bridges without New Taxes
- NO: Proposal Ignores Vast Improvements In U.S. Air Quality
- Wind Power Costs Continue to Rise
- Washington Governor Forces Wind Farm Over Local Objections
- Shifting funds to bridges
- Meeting Our Need for Electric Power
- Climate Figures Need Scrutiny
- Fueling Our Future
- Increasing America's Domestic Fuel Supply
- Congress Considers Carbon Trading
- Should Congress consider universal energy tax?
- No. They Are a Morally Bankrupt Policy
- California Senate Rejects Dam Proposal
- Please stay off of the gas
- Warming Pols Should Cool It
- Congress, Media Distort Censorship Issue
- State Climatologists Attacked for Global Warming Doubts
- ESA Listing Not Needed for Polar Bears
- Climate Alarmist Quits British Government
- Coal power in Texas is in the black
- Polar Bears on Thin Ice, Not Really!
- Coal Power Boon
- Coal Power in the Black: A Boon for the Economy and Human Health
- Congressional Hearings Break 'Hockey Stick'
- Con: Carbon curbs will send business fleeing to friendlier states
- States Take Action to Rein in Eminent Domain Abuses
- When warming's 'hockey stick' breaks
- Mideast crisis dramatizes need to strengthen U.S. energy security with offshore drilling
- Energy Security On The Shelf
- Is Decade-Old Daubert Ruling Effective at Reducing Junk Testimony?
- In the Public Interest: Now is the Time to Tap the Outer-Continental Shelf
- States Split on Mercury Standards
- The Truth About Al Gore's Film: An Inconvenient Truth
- Taxing Profits, Draining Energy
- Maryland Legislature Forces Governor into Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
- Better Fuel Economy Can Be Hazardous To Health
- Polar bears on thin ice?
- Are Polar Bears Dying?
- H. Sterling Burnett: Attack on Exxon Mobil’s successful ex-CEO is nonsensical coming from N.Y. Times' pundit
- Congress Resembles Brooding Teenager With Oil Price Gouging Bill
- Alaska Gov. Seeks Profits-Based Oil Tax
- Oil Executives Answer Profit Inquiries at Wisconsin Hearing
- Perversions Insured
- Bush Should Apply the Ownership Society to Environmental Issues
- Senate Dems Put Enviros' Dollars Before National Security
- Skip The Gas Profit Tinkering (Audio)
- Skip The Gas Profit Tinkering
- Oil Crisis Hysteria
- Hurricanes underlined need to explore all U.S. oil and gas reserves
- Adapting Now Is The Way To Duck Disaster
- Subsidizing Disaster Commentary
- Hurricanes aren't caused by Global Warming but Political Hot Air Is
- The Political Climate
- Does the World Have Enough Oil? We Have Plenty
- Climate Studies Cannot Be Free From Oversight
- Global Warming: Religion or Science?
- Energy, MTBE and Politics: A Toxic Brew
- A Toxic Brew
- Ethanol Benefits Makers, Legislators Who Support Their Cause
- Warming: Famine or Feast?
- Eco-Innovators
- Nuclear Power Making Worldwide Comeback
- Kyoto Cutbacks in Energy Use Would Devastate America's Economy
- Nuclear Energy Commentary: KERA
- Every Day is Earth Day
- Blowing in the Wind: But is Renewable Energy Affordable Energy?
- Clearing the Air About Air Quality in Houston
- Bush Environmental Policy
- Greener fields in the forecast
- Crichton exposes lack of science in theories
- Domestic disturbances
- Drilling for Oil: Domestic exploration will curb dependency on often-unstable countries
- Kerry or Bush: Who's the Sportsmen's Friend in this Election?
- Kerry's Energy Plan Fails to Match the President's for Helping Consumers
- Blackout: Getting the Electricity Provisions Right
- Technological Breakthroughs May Bring Nuclear Power Out of the Mothballs
- No to Kyoto and Other Economy Wrecking Climate Policies is the Right Choice for Kerry
- Blackout: Getting the Electricity Provisions Right
- Breaking the "Hockey Stick"
- Recycling is a Waste
- Fresh New Ideas For Eluding A Warming World
- We Are Not Running Out of Oil
- Passage of Connecticut Greenhouse Gas Regulation is Rational Ignorance
- Energy Legislation: Another Earth Day with Much to Celebrate
- ANWR and Our Nation's Energy Future
- Climate Change: Science or Science Fiction
- Gore Roars on Global Warming: Wrong Again!
- Geoengineering Could Be Effective Solution In Fight Against Global Warming
- Obama Gray Wolf Decision Unpopular But Right
- President Klaus: There Is No Global Warming...Again
- Comments on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the Environmental Protection Agency
- The Truth About... Going Green
- Federal Court Ruling Blurs Lines of Authority