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PRB Coal Leasing Scandal Redux

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., June 26, 2012 – Pardon my déjà vu, but an article in Monday’s Washington Post, citing a study of how the Interior Department’s coal leasing…



California Dreamin’ Becoming a Reality?

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., June 25, 2012 – When it comes to electric infrastructure, no state is more dysfunctional than California. That observation, based on many years of observing…


Neither Party Can Let USEC Fail

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., June 17, 2012 -- If the Obama administration is, as Republicans charge, the most anti-business administration in U.S. history, why is it doing everything it…


Getting a Piece of the Pilgrim Pie

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., June 12, 2012 – It’s hard to cry the blues for a union worker at a nuclear power plant making $122,000 a year with a…


FERC Audit Slams NERC Practices

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., 5 May 2012 -- A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission financial audit finds that the North American Electric Reliability Corp. is failing to focus its work…


Damn the Data, Full Steam Ahead

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., 28 April 2012 -- A vexing problem faces those who advocate massive global political and economic responses to a warming climate allegedly marred by mankind’s…


Say Goodbye, Commissioner Svinicki

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., 19 April 2012 -- Advice to NRC commissioner Kristine Svinicki: it’s time to start polishing that resume. Your days on the regulatory commission are over.…


How About ‘None of the Above?’

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., 16 April 2012 -- So clever of the White House. President Obama says his administration’s latest energy strategy -- mimicking his GOP adversaries -- is…