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Do Old Coal Plants Ever Die?

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…



SOTU: Who Needs Energy Policy?

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., January 25, 2012 -- For as long as most of us can remember, both U.S. political parties have been shouting from the partisan tree tops…


Obama Names Tony Clark to FERC

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., January 24, 2012 – President Obama yesterday said he will nominate Tony Clark, retiring chairman of the North Dakota Public Service Commission to the Federal…


Obama Stumbles into Keystone XL Trap

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012 – In denying TransCanada’s permit for the Keystone XL pipeline to move oil from Alberta’s tar sands projects to U.S. refineries, the…


Climate and the Wandering Albatross

By Kennedy Maize   Washington, D.C., January 12, 2012 -- The ancient English idiom “It’s an ill wind that blows no good” takes on specificity following an article in tomorrow’s…


The Little Breeder that Could

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., December 21, 2011 – Call it “The Little Breeder that Could.” Sixty years ago – December 21, 1951 – on the remote, high Idaho desert…


FERC Puts Duke-Progress Merger in Doubt

By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., December 15, 2011 – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday gave a big lump of holiday coal to Duke Energy and Progress Energy, putting the…