By Kennedy Maize (@kennedymaize) Washington, D.C., 2 January 2013 – It came as no surprise when, shortly after Christmas, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said she will step down…
Blog
By Kennedy Maize (@kennedymaize) Washington, D.C., 15 Dec. 2012 – Pushed by the pending fiscal cliff and the expiration of 20 years of piecemeal tax subsidies, the U.S. wind industry…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., 19 November 2012 – One of the more interesting back stories of the saga of Tropical Storm Sandy and its devastation of Long Island’s electric…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., 9 November 2012 – “Three-dimensional musical chairs” best describes what happens in Washington during the start of a second presidential term. The jockeying for position…
By Thomas W. Overton There’s an old adage, “If you’re going to take a shot at the king, you’d better kill him.” No doubt this theme is reverberating around coal…
By Kennedy Maize (@kennedymaize) Washington, D.C., 7 November, 2012 -- With Barack Obama given another four-year lease on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the policy and regulatory landscape for the electricity business…
By Kennedy Maize (@kennedymaize) Washington, D.C., 24 October 2012 – Here’s one for climate science and policy wonks. Remember the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill? Among the community of the climate alarmed,…
By Kennedy Maize (@kennedymaize) Washington, D.C., 15 October 2012 – Would Republican Mitt Romney be tougher-minded than Barack Obama when it comes to some of the most egregious energy subsidies…
By Kennedy Maize (@kennedymaize) Washington, D.C., 6 Oct. 2012 -- A big science boondoggle bit the dust this month, giving the quest for fusion energy another black eye. But look…
By Thomas W. Overton, JD As unlikely as it might have seemed a few months ago, recent developments in the ongoing saga over the beleaguered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station…