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Jason Hayes

  • Director of Environmental Policy Mackinac Center for Public Policy
East Coast United States, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: MSN, Fox News, USA Today, New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Energy Bad Boys, Substack, The Hill, National Review, Detroit News and
Covers:  Energy and environmental policy: utility regulation, electricity generation, forest management, public lands, conservation
Christian/Husband/Dad, libertarian. I do energy & environment @A1Policy. Former park ranger & forester. 🇺🇸/🇨🇦

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Jason Hayes serves as the Policy Director for Energy and Environment at the America First Policy Institute. Prior to joining AFPI, he spent a decade leading the Mackinac Center's Energy and Environmental Policy Initiative and also served as an adjunct scholar with Northwood University’s McNair Center. Jason has spent over three decades focused on energy and environmental policies, moving from his early work as a forester and park ranger in the backcountry of British Columbia, to environmental p…

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Unfounded alarmism surrounds the Trump administration EPA's clean energy rule

Unfounded alarmism surrounds the Trump administration EPA's clean energy rule

Attacks on the Trump administration's Affordable Clean Energy plan - in particular, the claim it will cause a…

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Stiff headwinds ahead for 2019 environmental appropriations

Stiff headwinds ahead for 2019 environmental appropriations

Both the House and Senate brushed aside budget cuts recommended by the Trump administration, and now the two …

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Green activists up the pressure on automobile efficiency standards

Green activists up the pressure on automobile efficiency standards

Raise your hand if you agree that the idea behind federal automobile emissions standards is to help improve t…

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Sunny With a Chance of Apocalypse

Sunny With a Chance of Apocalypse

In a 2015 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed on California's response to climate change, Dr. Jon Christensen, an a…

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Time for a Full and Independent Review of Climate Science

Time for a Full and Independent Review of Climate Science

A few months back, a motivated reader critiqued my IMPACT magazine article, " Thirty Years of Climate Concern…

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Don't Confuse Cold Weather Snap for Climate Change

Don't Confuse Cold Weather Snap for Climate Change

By In her Feb. 12 State of the State speech, Gov. Whitmer claimed that climate change-induced extreme tempera…

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Earth Day and the failure of apocalyptic environmentalism

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By Jason Hayes
| Washington Examiner
Paul Ehrlich. (WEX illustration; Michael Sohn/AP; Getty Images) Ehrlich viewed humans in the same light as the insect populations he had studied and believed we faced the same resource constraints. His 1968 book, The Population Bomb, fleshed out his extreme ideas and helped radicalize the fledgling green movement. Its apocalyptic predictions treated growing human populations as a threat, not a blessing, and forecasted famine and widespread starvation.
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AFPI Responds to the House Passage of the FENCES Act

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By Jason Hayes
| America First Policy Institute
Energy & Environment April 16, 2026 Washington, D.C. — Jason Hayes, Director of Energy & Environment at America First Policy Institute (AFPI), released the following statement following House passage of the Foreign Emissions and Nonattainment Clarification for Economic Stability Act (FENCES Act) (H.R. 6409), legislation that would stop states from being punished under the Clean Air Act for pollution that comes from other countries.
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Why America's first new refinery in decades matters

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By Jason Hayes
| MSN
Jason Hayes, Washington Examiner After decades of stagnation in the U.S. refining sector, a significant shift may be underway. The newly announced oil refinery at the Port of Brownsville, Texas , could become one of the first major new U.S. refinery projects in almost five decades. More than just another industrial facility, the project represents renewed confidence that the country is willing to invest in the infrastructure necessary to sustain its role as a global energy leader.
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