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.…
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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…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., 28 March 2012 -- Just how significant is the Obama administration’s new regulation on carbon dioxide emissions from new coal-fired power plants, announced yesterday? From…
By Thomas W. Overton San Diego, 20 March 2012 -- A fair amount of ink has been spilled in the commodities market over record natural gas storage inventories in the…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., March 20 2012 -- The most important economist you probably have never heard of is William Stanley Jevons. Contemplating the convergence of coal, industry, and…
By Thomas W. Overton, JD San Diego, 16 March 2012 -- Yesterday, the NRC announced that it is sending a special team to San Onofre after several steam generator tubes…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., 14 March 2012 -- Climate science is a wicked mess. That’s not a political statement or a casual description of the difficulties of the man-made…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., March 4, 2012 -- Conflating climate and energy policy in the U.S. over the past several decades has produced incoherent policy in both areas, along…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., February 13, 2012 -- Environmental activists have a long record of miscalculation and misadventure. That’s been particularly true when it comes to coal. Remember acid…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., January 29, 2012 -- Detroit is back and the year 2012 looks promising for U.S. automakers. But unlike the hype of early last year, the…