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</div>On 10 April 1961, Dr. Jules Joskow and Dr. Irwin Stelzer found a new kind of company. The two noted economists, advised by Dr. Alfred E. Kahn (one of the country's foremost economists and future "father of airline deregulation"), create National Economic Research Associates, the first consulting firm dedicated to methodically applying rigorous microeconomic thought to litigation and regulatory matters.https://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/19/revealed-reuters-ids-nera-economic-consulting-third-party-contractor-doe-lng-export-study2012  desmogReuters has <a target="blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/19/usa-lng-report-idUSL1E8MGE1620121119" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">revealed the identity of the mysterious third party contractor</a> tasked to publish the economic impact study on LNG (liquefied natural gas) exports on behalf of the Department of Energy (DOE). Its name: NERA Economic Consulting.“NERA” is shorthand for <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Economic_Research_Associates" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">National Economic Research Associates</a>, an economic consulting firm SourceWatch identifies as the entity that published a <a target="blank" href="http://www.americaspower.org/new-analysis-finds-epas-power-plant-regulations-would-increase-electricity-costs-lose-jobs-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">June 2011 report</a> on behalf of coal industry front group <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</a> (ACCCE). ACCCE's report <a target="blank" href="http://www.americaspower.org/new-analysis-finds-epas-power-plant-regulations-would-increase-electricity-costs-lose-jobs-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">concluded</a>, “clean-air rules proposed by the Obama administration would cost utilities $17.8 billion annually and raise electricity rates 11.5 percent on average in 2016.”That report went so far to say that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) <a target="blank" href="http://www.utilityproducts.com/news/2012/11/02/nera-analysis-finds-epa-regulations-could-cost-1-5-million-jobs-over-next-4-years.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">regulations of the coal-generated electrcity sector would amount to some 1.5 million lost jobs</a> over the next four years.NERA was founded by <a target="blank" href="http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=StelIrwi" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Irwin Stelzer</a>, senior fellow and director of the right-wing <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Hudson Institute</a>’s Center for Economic Policy. In Oct. 2004, The Guardian <a target="blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/oct/17/media.mediabusiness" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">described Stelzer</a> as the “right-hand man of Rupert Murdoch,” the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=K.Rupert_Murdoch" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">CEO of News Corp.</a>, which owns Fox News. According to NERA's website, the late Alfred E. Kahn, the “<a target="blank" href="http://news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec10/KahnObit.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">father of deregulation</a>,” <a target="blank" href="http://www.nera.com/7250.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">advised NERA's 1961 foundation</a>. In 2010, NERA <a target="blank" href="http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/permits_ej_operations_pdf/ipnerareport.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">published a letter</a> to the New York Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to protest the prospective closure of the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Indian_Point%28Nuclear_Power_Station%29" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Indian Point Nuclear Power Plants</a>.<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">A NERA <a target="blank" href="http://www.nera.com/nera-files/PUB_MATS_Rule_0312.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">report from earlier this year</a> provided the basis for the popular King Coal refrain that the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule would cost the U.S. tens of billions of dollars and “kill” 180,000-215,000 jobs.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-align: left;"><a target="blank" href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=b9cacaf1-802a-23ad-4459-39890f9d90ff" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a target="blank" href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=b9cacaf1-802a-23ad-4459-39890f9d90ff" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">These figures were picked up and cited</a> by <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/james-inhofe-shilling-god-or-oil-correct-answer-both" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">climate change denier U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)</a> in June when he spoke out against President Barack Obama's mythological “war on coal,” as well as by the Republican Policy Committee in a May policy paper titled, “<a target="blank" href="http://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/obamas-war-on-coal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Obama’s War on Coal</a>.” </div>With a track record like this, it's best to view whatever report the Obama Administration's DOE (aka NERA) produces on the economic impact of LNG exports, <a target="blank" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/11/15/u-s-confirms-lng-export-review-by-years-end/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">set to come out by the end of the year</a>, with extreme skepticism if not downright hostili...
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404http://web.archive.org/web/20081120091031/https://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=StelIrwi<h1 style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Irwin M. Stelzer</h1>Director, Center for Economic Policy Studies Senior Fellow Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters<h3 style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Areas of Expertise</h3><ul class="squareList" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; list-style: none;">Economics</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; list-style: none;">Regulatory policy studies</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; list-style: none;">Telecommunications</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; list-style: none;">Competitiveness</li></ul> <h3 style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Biographical Highlights</h3><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Irwin Stelzer is a senior fellow and director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Economic Policy. Prior to joining Hudson Institute in 1998, Stelzer was resident scholar and director of regulatory policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He also is the U.S. economic and political columnist for The Sunday Times (London) and The Courier Mail (Australia), a contributing editor of The Weekly Standard, a member of the Publication Committee of The Public Interest, and a member of the board of the Regulatory Policy Institute (Oxford). Stelzer founded National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA) in 1961 and served as its president until a few years after its sale in 1983 to Marsh & McLennan. He also has served as a managing director of the investment banking firm of Rothschild Inc. and a director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at Harvard University. As a consultant to several U.S. and United Kingdom industries with a variety of commercial and policy problems, Stelzer oversaw market strategy, pricing and antitrust issues, and regulatory matters. His academic career includes teaching appointments at Cornell University, the University of Connecticut, and New York University, and an associate membership of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a former member of the Litigation and Administrative Practice Faculty of the Practicing Law Institute. He served on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Committee for the Department of Economics, and has been a teaching member of Columbia University's Continuing Legal Education Programs. Stelzer received his bachelor and master-of-arts degrees from New York University and his doctorate in economics from Cornell University.</div><a name="media" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /> <h3 style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Publications and Media Exposure</h3><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stelzer has written and lectured on economic and policy developments in the United States and Britain. He has written extensively on policy issues such as America’s competitive position in the world economy, optimum regulatory policies, the consequences of European integration, and factors affecting and impeding economic growth. He has served as economics editor of the Antitrust Bulletin and is the author of Selected Antitrust Cases: Landmark Decisions; The Antitrust Laws: A Primer; and The United States, a United Europe, and the United Kingdom: Three Characters in Search of a Policy. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081120091031/http://www.hudson.org/files/documents/stelzer%20dionne%20bolded%20linked1.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">Irwin Stelzer</a> highlighted in Washington Post article</div> <a name="publications" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h3 style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Articles & Publications by Irwin M. 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